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League Awards Program Spotlights Excellence

On Sunday, July 14, the League of Historic American Theatres presents its 2019 Awards for Excellence. During
the ceremony the League will honor the recipients of the 2019 Outstanding Historic Theatre Award and 2019
Outstanding Individual Contribution Award, whose distinguished achievements inspire excellence in our field.

The jury reviewing nominations for this year’s theatre and individual awards included past winners and LHAT
Past Board Presidents.

The 2019 Outstanding Historic Theatre Award The 2019 Outstanding Individual Contribution Award
recognizes an exemplary theatre, demonstrating recognizes an individual who demonstrates vision,
excellence in its community impact, quality of dedication, selflessness and excellence through
programs and services, and quality of physical his or her contribution to historic theatres and
restoration or rehabilitation. An award-winning their communities. The recipient of this award will
theatre will have demonstrated excellence through have demonstrated excellence through his or her
significant achievement, the impact of its services significant contributions, the impact of his or her
and breadth of populations served, and the length services and breadth of populations served, and
of time and/or intensity of its activities. the length of time and/or intensity of contributions
that benefit the field of historic theatres.
Previous recipients of the Outstanding Historic
Theatre Award are: Previous recipients of the Outstanding Individual
Contribution Award are:
2018 - Struthers Library Theatre, Warren, PA
The Paramount Theater of Charlottesville, Inc. Ben Hardeman - 2018
Charlottesville, VA Hillsman Wright
Mayo Performing Arts Center Don Telford
Morristown, NJ Retired CEO, San Diego Theatres, San Diego, CA
Morris Performing Arts Center James Boese
South Bend, IN
York Theatre Michael Price
Elmhurst, IL Executive Director, Goodspeed Musicals - East Haddam, CT
New York City Center Ted R. King
New York, NY Friends of the GEM, GEM Theatre, Calhoun, GA
Palace Theatre Trust Dulcie Gilmore
Manchester NH Retired Director, Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, IL
Fox Theatre Jeff Greene
Atlanta, GA President, EverGreene Architectural Arts, Inc., New York, NY
PlayhouseSquare Andrea Rogers
Cleveland, OH Executive Director Emeritus, Flynn Center for the Performing
Arts, Burlington, VT
Proctors
Killis P. Almond, FAIA
Schenectady, NY Killis Almond Architects, PC, San Antonio, TX
Newberry Opera House
Janis A. Barlow
Newberry, SC Janis Barlow & Associates, Toronto, ON, CA
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
Craig Morrison, AIA
Burlington, VT Theatre Architect, Chicago, IL
Michigan Theater
Joseph Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Ann Arbor, MI V.I.P. Tours of New York, New York, NY
Hawaii Theatre Center
Tony Rivenbark
Honolulu, HI Thalian Hall. Wilmington, NC
Cutler Majestic Theatre
Maureen Patton
Emerson College, Boston, MA The Grand 1894 Opera House, Galveston, TX
Fulton Opera House
Lancaster, PA Award statues designed and provided
by EverGreene Architectural Arts, Inc.
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