- Gary Pearle and Wayne Bryan received Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Award for "Best Direction of a Revue" for the Travel Light production of "Tintypes," starring Ross Lehman, Audrie Neenan, Nedra Dixon, and Maureen McNamara.
- He and Gary Pearle were nominated for a 1982 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of Revue for "Tintypes", at the Travel Light Productions Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- Wayne Bryan's numerous awards include the Old Globe's Atlas Award for Best Actor ("Feiffer's People"), two Los Angeles Drama-Logue Awards (as actor and director for "Where's Charley?"), two Dean Goodman Awards for directing in San Francisco ("On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" and "Once Upon a Mattress"), over a dozen of Wichita's Mary Jane Teall Awards as actor, director and producer at Music Theatre Wichita, and the Kansas Governor's Arts Award as outstanding individual artist.
- Wayne Bryan and Mark Madama co-authored a revised version of the collegiate musical "Good News!" which debuted at Music Theatre Wichita in 1993, and has now become the standard licensed version (through Tams-Witmark) with over 400 productions worldwide. Jay Records recorded the cast album, starring Kim Huber, Michael Gruber, Ann Morrison, Linda Michele, and Hal Davis, with Wayne re-creating his Broadway role as Bobby Randall. Other cast albums in which Wayne has been involved include the American cast album of "Honk!" (which Wayne directed at Music Theatre Wichita) and the cast album of "Festival" (an original musical Wayne directed at New York's City Center).
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