Awards & Honors
Competitive Public Awards
- One of the Best Regional Theaters in America – NYC Drama League
- Winner! Editor's Choice: Best of New England Award - Yankee Magazine
- Theater Excellence Award - New England Theater Conference
- Best Musical (Urinetown) – Broadway World Regional Theater Awards 2018
- Best Actor (Woman) in a Musical (Little Sally, Urinetown) – Broadway World Regional Theater Awards 2018
- Times Argus Readers Choice Award – Best Theater (only winner since inception!)
- Seven Days Daysie Award – Best Theater
- Inaugural “Hathaway Prize” (for STONE) – Vermont Historical Society
- Best of Vermont Award – Vermont Magazine
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Outstanding Direction & Performance Awards (numerous) – Burlington City Arts
“You have a first-rate professional theater company right here in your own town, right in your state, and I hope you support it because it really matters.”
— Emily Mann, Tony-Winning Playwright
Commendations of Excellence
- 2013 declared “The Year of Lost Nation Theater” in Vermont by Governor Peter Shumlin
- The Honorable Governor of Vermont (Gov. Dean & Gov. Douglas)
- Vermont State Legislature General Assembly (1998, 2002, 2008, & 2013)
- US Senators Patrick Leahy and Jim Jeffords
- The City of Montpelier
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Tony-Winning Playwright & Director Emily Mann
“Every small town in America should be as lucky as Montpelier to have such a first-rate theater.”
— Mark Wooden, Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, MA
Community Awards
- Designated Montpelier’s Official Resident Professional Theater Company
- Great Performance Award – Onion River Arts Council
- Outstanding Business Partner – MHS Community Based Learning Program
- National & Regional Awards & Honors
- Winner, Project Grant Award – National Endowment for the Arts
- Winner, numerous grant awards – Vermont Arts Council
- Appointed – Head Start Arts Partner/Administrator – CVCAC/VAC
- Recognized for Access Commitment – www.accessexpressed.net