In 2023, Tom Regnier Veritas Awards were conferred on two most deserving individuals during their respective annual conferences, Alexander Waugh, Chairman of the De Vere Society and Alex McNeil, former editor of the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter.
Over the last 6 years, Alexander Waugh has posted over 60 videos on his YouTube channel, Alexander Waugh – YouTube , generating over a million views by seekers. His topics in this video series are wide-ranging and delivered with conviction and humor. His many other accomplishments in the Oxfordian cause include co-editing Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? Exposing an Industry in Denial (2013), numerous scholarly presentations at conferences on both sides of the Atlantic, and, most recently, hosting the DVS podcast series, ‘174T’. Podcasts – De Vere Society
Alex McNeil, J.D., has edited the Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter for the past decade, and was awarded Oxfordian of the Year in 2014. In 2023, Alex recorded his superb ‘Shakespeare Authorship 101’ video, produced by filmmaker Cheryl Eagan-Donovan, which is available on the SOF YouTube channel and has been viewed by thousands in just the first few months of being posted. Alex has recently joined the cast of the Blue Boar Tavern series, and continues to provide editorial support for projects across the Shakespeare authorship spectrum of publications.
The Tom Regnier Veritas Award was conceived and designed by former SOF Trustee Julie Bianchi in response to the loss of one of our own on April 14, 2020. Tom Regnier was an actor, attorney, and prominent champion of the Oxfordian movement, who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to promote our mission using his theatrical training and lawyer’s wit to present our case on stage in the unforgiving glare of public limelight.
“To honor his unique contributions to the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, we have are instituted an award for future authorship doubters who best demonstrate through their creative endeavors, dogged scholarship, and overall tenacity, the potential to make a lasting impact on the history of the Authorship Question by exemplifying “the mark and glass, copy and book” fashioned by Tom. The award medallion was designed to evoke the Most Noble Order of the Garter, a symbol of dedicated engagement against one’s adversaries.”
