Thank you to the Hartness Pavilion and Furman University for hosting the 2020 Awards Gala
Honorees
- Founders Award: The Market Theatre Company, Anderson
- Lifetime Service Award: Ken May, former executive director of the South Carolina Arts Commission
- Outstanding Theatre Educator Award: Lou Layton, Academy for the Arts, Science, and Technology
- Theatre of Distinction Award: Spartanburg Little Theatre, Spartanburg
- Theatre Advocacy Award: Carolina Curtain Call, online theatre magazine
- Deborah Smith Hoffman Outstanding Mentor Teacher Award: Anne Lavely, Wade Hampton High School
Previous Award Winners
Founders Award
- 1984 — Clemson University
- 1985 — Jay Thompson
- 1986 — Electric City Playhouse
- 1988 — Elbin L. Cleveland
- 1989 — Arthur McDonald
- 1990 — University of South Carolina
- 1993 — Marvin-Joe Merck
- 1994 — Elbin L. Cleveland
- 1995 — Nancy Whitaker
- 1997 — Trustus Theatre
- 1998 — Clifton S.M. Egan
- 2003 — Jack Benjamin
- 2005 — Jim & Kay Thigpen
- 2006 — Jon Tuttle
- 2008 — Glen Gourley
- 2010 — South Carolina Children’s Theatre
- 2011 — Edgefield County Theatre Company
- 2012 — Applied Theatre Center
- 2013 — Dewey Scott-Wiley
- 2014 — The Warehouse Theatre
- 2015 — Mill Town Players
- 2017 — USC Aiken
- 2018 — Chad Henderson, Trustus Theatre
- 2019 — The Market Theatre Company
Theatre of Distinction Award
- 2013 — Trustus Theatre
- 2014 — Florence Little Theatre
- 2015 — Greenville Little Theatre
- 2016 — Town Theatre
- 2017 — The Footlight Players
- 2018 — South Carolina Children’s Theatre
- 2019 – Spartanburg Little Theatre
Deborah Smith Hoffman Outstanding Mentor Teacher Award
- 2007 — Stephanie Daniels
- 2008 — Leslie Dellinger
- 2009 — Donna McKenna-Crook
- 2010 — Linda Wolford Linke
- 2014 — Lori McKelvey
- 2015 — Nancy Pope
- 2016 — Jimmy Chrismon
- 2018 — Martha Hearn Kelly
- 2019 – Anne Lavely
Lifetime Service Award
- 2000 — H. Jefferson Corbin, Jr.
- 2002 — Mary Nicholson
- 2004 — Jim Patterson
- 2006 — Barbara Bise
- 2007 — Philip G. Hill
- 2008 — Christine Fischer
- 2010 — Donna Wilson
- 2011 — Richard Hefner
- 2012 — Frank Mundy
- 2013 — Dr. Virginia Uldrick
- 2014 — Roy Fluhrer
- 2015 — Dr. Kathryn Ballou
- 2016 — D.Keith Best
- 2017 — Chip Egan
- 2018 — Jimm Cox
- 2019 – Ken May
Outstanding Theatre Educator Award
- 2000 — Donna J. Wilson
- 2002 — Timothy Brown & James R. Gross
- 2005 — Patrick Gagliano
- 2006 — Anita Sleeman
- 2007 — Shannon Horn
- 2008 — Mark Charney
- 2009 — George Younts
- 2010 — Jimmy Chrismon
- 2011 — Monique Sacay-Bagwell
- 2012 — Steven Gundersheim
- 2013 — Jayce T. Tromsness
- 2014 — Stephanie B. Daniels
- 2016 — Kendra Johnson
- 2017 — Peter Duffy
- 2018 — Sandra Dietel
- 2019 – Lou layton
Theatre Advocacy Award
- 2014 — League of Charleston Theatres
- 2015 — Betty Plumb
- 2016 — Diane Lee
- 2018 — Bert Wakeley
- 2019 – Carolina Curtain Call
Hall of Fame Inductees
Inducted 2019
- Phillip Boykin
- Allen McCalla
- Suzanne McCalla
- Michael Genevie
Inducted 2018
- Julian Wiles
- Doug McCoy (posthumously)
- Donna Wilson
Inducted 2017
- Jack Benjamin
- Jim Thigpen (posthumously)
- Kay Thigpen
Inducted 2016
-
- Dr. Phillip Hill
- Sally Cade Holmes
- Randall David Cook
- Erskine C. Johnson III