Award Categories
- Outstanding Audio Description Visionary
- Innovation
- Gaming
- Education
- Popular Entertainment
- Live Events
- Spanish Media (USA)
- International Media
- Talent Promotion
- Inclusion Excellence
- Writing
- Voicing
- Audio Description People’s Choice Awards – Film and Series
2025 Sponsors and Supporters
Audio Description Project Supporter
- Sony Corporation of America
Super Star
- Comcast NBCUniversal
Take the Lead
- Amazon
- Netflix
- Warner Bros. Discovery
Supporting Cast
- Fox Corporation
- Microsoft
- NCTA – The Internet & Television Association
- Paramount, a Skydance Corporation
- PBS
- Spectrum
- VITAC
- The Walt Disney Company
- Waymo
2025 Awards Gala Hosts and Producers
Co-host
Alie B. Gorrie
Alie B. Gorrie is an actor, arts educator, and disability inclusion advocate based in Birmingham, AL. She’s performed in New York City and across the country on national tours, and she is currently bringing her solo show COCKEYED OPTIMIST to theatres across the Southeast. She is the founder of SONGS FOR SIGHT, an organization serving children with low vision across Alabama. She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Belmont University and an MA in Arts in Medicine from The University of Florida. Alie B. Is a tap and musical theatre educator at Red Mountain Theatre, The Dance Foundation, Access Acting Academy, and ActionPlay Arts. She is a professor of theatre at Samford University.
Co-host
Ashley J. Hicks
Ashley J. Hicks is an actor, writer, and Disability Equity & Access Coach based in New York City. She earned her BA in Theater from the University of Missouri–Columbia (2010), trained at Act One Studios in Chicago (2012), and received her MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater (2021). Her recent credits include Amber in Poker Face (Peacock), Ranger Ora in Atlas (Netflix), and the Disney Television Discovers: Talent Showcase (2022). Offstage, Ashley serves as the Manager of Member Experience and Access at A.R.T./New York, where she helps support accessibility initiatives across the NYC arts community.
Producer
Doug Roland
Doug Roland is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker who is fortunate to be returning as producer for the AD Awards Gala for the fifth time. Doug’s work has led to collaborations with many organizations in the disability space, notably creating screening events and speaking at conferences, institutions, and schools around the world to foster conversation about important social issues.
2024 Awards Gala Hosts and Producers
Co-Host: Marilee Talkington
Co-Host: Alie B. Gorrie
Producer: Doug Roland
2023 Awards Gala Hosts and Producers
Co-Host: Marilee Talkington
Co-Host: Conchita Hernandez Legorreta
Producer: Doug Roland
Co-Producer: Joe Strechay