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Recent Press
BREAKING NEWS: TADA! Youth Theater Earned Five Awards and Four Additional Nominations from the 4th Annual National Youth Theater Awards 2008-2009
The award winners are:
Outstanding Lead Actor (13 and under): Alec Cohen as Mickey in Golly Gee Whiz!
Outstanding lead Acress (13 and under): Katie Lerner Lee as Judy in Golly Gee Whiz!
Outstanding Ensemble (13 and under): Everything About A Family (Almost)
Outstanding Choreography: Joanna Greer for Everything About A Family (Almost)
Outstanding New Play/Musical: Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart for Golly Gee Whiz!
The certificate of nomination winners:
Outstanding Supporting Actress (13 and under): Gabriella Gross as Mackenzie in Everything About A Family (Almost); Megan Nicholson MacRae as Kitty Kodgers in Golly Gee Whiz!
Outstanding Featured Actress (13 and under): Martine Bowman as Carla in Everything About A Family (Almost); KyLee Savage as Steffi in Everything About A Family (almost)
The winners will receive their awards at a ceremony on July 26th at the Riverdale YM-YWHA's theater. We are very proud of our Ensemble Members and the adult artists who both won and were nominated for these awards!
Click here for a full list of all the winners and nominees from across the country.
TADA! Youth Theater wins 2009 Drama Desk Award
We wanted to share the wonderful news that TADA! will be receiving a Special Drama Desk Award during the 2009 ceremonies!
Each year, the Drama Desk votes special awards to recognize excellence and significant contributions to the theater. For 2008/2009, these awards include TADA! Youth Theater for "providing an invaluable contribution to the future of the theater. The company makes outstanding training and experience accessible and affordable to young people and mounts productions remarkable for their quality and professionalism." TADA! will be honored in the Special Award category with Liza Minnelli, Forbidden Broadway and Atlantic Theater Company and artistic director Neil Pepe.
We are thrilled to receive this extraordinary honor and would like to commend TADA!'s Co-Founder/Executive & Artistic Director, Janine Nina Trevens, who truly has provided an invaluable contribution to the future of the theater.
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Playbill News: Drama Desk Nominees Announced
Theater News on TheaterMania.com - 04/27/2009
WINNER 2008 COMING UP TALLER AWARD
In 2007 the Los Angeles Times, called TADA! "one of the nation's most distinctive youth theaters." Now we are thrilled to announce that TADA!'s Resident Youth Ensemble Program has won the nations highest distinction, the Coming Up Taller award from the President's Committee on the Arts & Humanities.
The Coming Up Taller Awards recognize and support outstanding community arts and humanities programs that celebrate the creativity of young people, and provide them with new learning opportunities and a chance to contribute to their communities. The awards also highlight the contributions that historians, scholars, librarians and visual and performing artists make to families and communities by mentoring children. More than 350 nominations were received by the program in 2007.
"The arts and humanities develop bright young people who will lead our nation in the future," said Adair Margo, Chairman, Presidents Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. "Coming Up Taller recognizes the best of after-school and summer programs that engage youth in music, theatre, dance, photography, history and all kinds of enriching activities that help them realize their full potential as human beings."
Coming Up Taller Press Videos
Photos from the White House Award Ceremony
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