Honors Night
Please join us for Honors Night between the matinee and evening performances of Finding Neverland. The event is free and open to the public. This long-standing tradition at CMT, Honors Night celebrates outstanding work by our Rising Stars and Mainstage performers, as well as the past year’s Legacy Robe Recipients. We also honor the memories of five young performers who, despite losing their lives far too soon, remain forever a part of CMT history. We are honored to recognize our newest generation of performers in their names:
The Joshua Grant Brawn Award
The Joshua Grant Brawn Award recognizes those “rising stars” at CMTSJ. These nominees’ contributions, work ethics, talents, and positive attitudes provide a roadmap by which other Junior Talents and Rising Stars might find a path to success. Past recipients include Alicia Bosco, Emily Krolak, Chelsea Stock, Sarah Statler, Nick Spangler, Alex Brightman, Danielle Coleman, Tiffany Tanquary, Tristan Crisol, Ryan Vasquez, Joey Dippel, Michelle Martinelli, Myha’la Herrold, Ryan Ballard, Jaime Landrum, Trent Brunngraber, Maddie Ballard, Emily Murray, Fiona Pestana, Charlotta Lebedenko, Peyton Herzog, Ginger Hurley, Sebastian Young, Bella Esler, Jenika Fernando, Neal Sampson, Saidee Avila, and Brennan Klotzbach.
2025 Joshua Grant Brawn Award Nominees
Kies Heinschel
Christie Baek
Maddie Santana
Maxwell Hamilton
Kight Joaquin
Levi Jennings
The John Ignacio Award
The John Ignacio Award recognizes outstanding senior dancers. These athletes balance precision and energy, style and innovation, and their skills onstage are rivaled only by their winning attitudes offstage. The following nominees are among the finest dancers that CMTSJ has to offer. Past recipients include Whitney Stock, Chris Magovern, Aaron Albano, Leta Soza, Dennis O’Bannion, Jennifer Taylor, Lauren Ivie, Caitlin Jamello, Cynthia Pariente, Kelly Jamello, David Gromik, Patrick Ball, Elena Granadino, Kylie Brunngraber, Glenn delos Santos, Rudy Fuentes, Amanda McDonell, Alex Cortinas, Andrew Lucero, Claire Nguyen, Katarina Kelly, Jake Chen, JP Micallef, Isabella Story, Max Hofmann, and Courtney Porria/Chloe Porria (a tie).
2025 John Ignacio Award Nominees
Mika Austin
Bethany Dohn
Devin Ching
Norah Heller
John Routh
The Frank Frye Award
The Frank Frye Award recognizes a senior Children’s Musical Theater performer who has thrilled audiences with outstanding vocal performances; who has demonstrated an obvious passion for communicating with the gift of song; and who understands and rises to the challenges of performing in musical theater. Role models for our future performers, these nominees represent the finest singers that CMTSJ has to offer. Past recipients include Josh Dazel, Katrina Rodriguez, Katie Cole, David Sanchez, Colette Froehlich, Sarah Statler, Adam Campbell, Danelle Medeiros, Sarah Castro, Ashley Bawdon, Eric Krop, Julie Thomas, Brittany Ogle, Ryan Vasquez, Adrienne Eller, Kristen Hermosillo/Alia Hodge (a tie), Nina Feliciano, Jason Rehklau, Brent Miller, Katherine Hauge, Cristina Oeschger, Mercedes Dawnte Long, Armand Akbari, Ande Burns, Niko Raiyawa, Isabella Esler, Daniel Smith, and Maya Drake.
2025 Frank Frye Award Nominees
James Trujillo
Bella Villasis
Saidee Avila
Alana Arney
Jack Gunter
The Brian Alfred King Award
The Brian Alfred King Award recognizes a senior CMT performer who has created powerful, detailed acting performances, demonstrated dedication and attention to his or her work, while remaining, throughout the process, a true team player. Role models for future performers, these nominees represent the finest actors that CMTSJ has to offer. Past recipients include Doug Santana, Tony Panighetti, Jacob Vega-Canote, Nick Ceglio, Josh Miyaji, Andrew Ceglio, Carter Skeath, Adam Barry, Nick Spangler, Matt Sobel, Alex Brightman, David Clift, Jordan Corey, Matt Hill, Joyah Spangler, Kyle Hauge, Adrienne Eller, Tyler Miclean, Rudy Fuentes/Joey Pisacane (a tie), Shawn Clifford, Katherine Hauge, Jack Bloome, Valeria Johnson, Meaghan Schapelhouman, David DeRuiter, Leandro Bilello, Maya Drake, and Jack Gunter.
The 2025 Brian Alfred King Award Nominees
Saria Rosin Toski
Ella Mee
Rebecca Borrison
Kyle Strenfel
Sabrina Self
The 2025 Andrew Strickland Legacy Robe Recipients
Disney’s The Lion King Jr. – Reese Robinson
A Christmas Carol – Chelsie Moniz
Tom Sawyer – Sasha Austin-Kunzevitzky
Rock of Ages – Sequoia Redfield
Once Upon a Mattress – Audrey Bohne
Hadestown – Teen Edition – Jo Silva
James and the Giant Peach – Norah Sullivan
Guys and Dolls – Gia England
Disney’s Frozen – Sophia Dohina
Honors Night is a complimentary event hosted by our outstanding CMT Staff and Team CMT. It features a touching multimedia component, as well as presentations and performances by many of our favorite CMT personalities, old and new. We welcome all of our families to attend the event, to honor the memory of these five extraordinary performers, and to celebrate the wonderful work of so many of our performers from last season. You won’t want to miss it!