EMACT Lifetime Achievement Award
Many theatrical organizations, both professional and amateur, bestow a lifetime achievement award on an individual to recognize his or her contributions to that organization and to the field of theatre.
EMACT Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
2024-2025
Andrew Barnett, Marblehead Little Theatre
Shawn Cannon, Cannon Theatre
Kevin Cassidy, Theatre III
Thomas G. Coffin, Colonial Chorus Players (Posthumous)
Nathan Fogg Desisto, Hingham Civic Music Theatre
Mary Frieburger, Theater Rats
Elizabeth Hunter, Theatre@First
Ellen Kazin, Arlington Friends of the Drama
Stu Kazin, Arlington Friends of the Drama
Don Oliver, Theatre III
Libby Ostrofsky, Needham Community Theatre
Larry Segel, Theatre Company of Saugus
Phyllis Uloth, Quannapowitt Players
2023-2024
Lifetime Achievement Honorees
Sandy Armstrong, Theatre III
Donald Baillargeon, Vokes Players
Kay Blaha, The Walpole Footlighters
Kathy Campbell, Acme Theatre Productions
Ron Godfrey, Center Stage Theatre, Posthumous
Patricia Jamison, Punctuate4producitons
Judy Taylor, Colonial Chorus Players, Posthumous
2022-2023
Evelyn Corsini Alcorn
Paul Campbell
Marc Capizzi
Elizabeth Nolan Conners
Heather Daly
Edward "Wick" Hoffman
Charlotte Kelley
Ed Knights
Shahn Knights
Kathy Magni
Susan Tucker
Pat Sherman
Marlene Wachtell
Tom Wachtell
2021-2022
David Berti
Anne Damon
John Murtagh
Dana Siegal
Sylvia "Kit" Seidenberg
Dan Sheehan
2020-2021
Susan Harrington
Sal Jones
2019-2020
Sam Gould - Open Door Theater
Jean MacFarland - EMACT
Pat Kane - Concord Players
Carol Antos - Concord Players
Tracy Wall - Concord Players
Kathy Booth - Concord Players
2018-2019
Allen Bantley- Concord Players
Ann Bantley- Concord Players
Celia Couture - EMACT
B.J. Williams - Winchester Players
Judy Forgione - Quannapowitt Players
Donna Corbett - Quannapowitt Players
2017-2018
Dave Sheppard - Acme Theatre Company
Marietta Phinney - Riverside Theatre Works
2016-2017
Douglas Cooper - Nashoba Players
Jennifer Howard - The Burlington Players
2015 - 2016
Ida Moliner - Norton Singers
Marian Morrison - Wellesley Players
Bill Doscher - Jamaica Plain Footlighters
Marshall Cannell - Wellesley Players
Guy Dilloway - Friendly Society of Weston
2008
Harriet Friedman - Nashoba Players
Since EMACT is such a large and ever-growing organization, our best source of suggestions for individuals deserving of such an honor is the individual community theaters themselves. If there is someone in your organization that your Board feels should be considered for this honor, please submit a letter with the reasons you believe they should be considered for such an award. We hope that some of our member groups will bring forward suggestions of individuals who have served their own groups and the theatre community as a whole in an exceptional way so that EMACT may recognize their contributions.
Please submit your nominations, along with a 500-1000 word narrative regarding why this nominee should be considered to: Celia Couture at [email protected].
The deadline is March 15.
EMACT Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
2024-2025
Andrew Barnett, Marblehead Little Theatre
Shawn Cannon, Cannon Theatre
Kevin Cassidy, Theatre III
Thomas G. Coffin, Colonial Chorus Players (Posthumous)
Nathan Fogg Desisto, Hingham Civic Music Theatre
Mary Frieburger, Theater Rats
Elizabeth Hunter, Theatre@First
Ellen Kazin, Arlington Friends of the Drama
Stu Kazin, Arlington Friends of the Drama
Don Oliver, Theatre III
Libby Ostrofsky, Needham Community Theatre
Larry Segel, Theatre Company of Saugus
Phyllis Uloth, Quannapowitt Players
2023-2024
Lifetime Achievement Honorees
Sandy Armstrong, Theatre III
Donald Baillargeon, Vokes Players
Kay Blaha, The Walpole Footlighters
Kathy Campbell, Acme Theatre Productions
Ron Godfrey, Center Stage Theatre, Posthumous
Patricia Jamison, Punctuate4producitons
Judy Taylor, Colonial Chorus Players, Posthumous
2022-2023
Evelyn Corsini Alcorn
Paul Campbell
Marc Capizzi
Elizabeth Nolan Conners
Heather Daly
Edward "Wick" Hoffman
Charlotte Kelley
Ed Knights
Shahn Knights
Kathy Magni
Susan Tucker
Pat Sherman
Marlene Wachtell
Tom Wachtell
2021-2022
David Berti
Anne Damon
John Murtagh
Dana Siegal
Sylvia "Kit" Seidenberg
Dan Sheehan
2020-2021
Susan Harrington
Sal Jones
2019-2020
Sam Gould - Open Door Theater
Jean MacFarland - EMACT
Pat Kane - Concord Players
Carol Antos - Concord Players
Tracy Wall - Concord Players
Kathy Booth - Concord Players
2018-2019
Allen Bantley- Concord Players
Ann Bantley- Concord Players
Celia Couture - EMACT
B.J. Williams - Winchester Players
Judy Forgione - Quannapowitt Players
Donna Corbett - Quannapowitt Players
2017-2018
Dave Sheppard - Acme Theatre Company
Marietta Phinney - Riverside Theatre Works
2016-2017
Douglas Cooper - Nashoba Players
Jennifer Howard - The Burlington Players
2015 - 2016
Ida Moliner - Norton Singers
Marian Morrison - Wellesley Players
Bill Doscher - Jamaica Plain Footlighters
Marshall Cannell - Wellesley Players
Guy Dilloway - Friendly Society of Weston
2008
Harriet Friedman - Nashoba Players
Since EMACT is such a large and ever-growing organization, our best source of suggestions for individuals deserving of such an honor is the individual community theaters themselves. If there is someone in your organization that your Board feels should be considered for this honor, please submit a letter with the reasons you believe they should be considered for such an award. We hope that some of our member groups will bring forward suggestions of individuals who have served their own groups and the theatre community as a whole in an exceptional way so that EMACT may recognize their contributions.
Please submit your nominations, along with a 500-1000 word narrative regarding why this nominee should be considered to: Celia Couture at [email protected].
The deadline is March 15.