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Announcing the 2022 Standing Ovation Grant Winners

We were overwhelmed by the response to our announcement of the Broadway Licensing Standing Ovation Grant, which offered an exceptional educational theatre program the chance to receive $5,000 and a feature in our 2022-2023 Educational Catalog. So overwhelmed, in fact, that we also awarded a $1,000 prize to four runners-up!

Meet our 2022 Standing Ovation Grant top prize recipients:

Mission San Jose Banner

A student-run program with no school funding, the Mission San Jose Universal Performers nevertheless staged a production of The Crucible, lit with flashlights and garden lamps and rehearsed late into the night on Zoom, and took home seven awards at the Lenaea Theatre Festival in February.

MSJ Universal Performers was selected due to their tenacity, flexibility, and drive to make theatre happen despite the odds. We tip our hat to them for their commitment to making everyone a theatre person!

For more information on this programs and the four worthy runners-up below, please visit the Broadway Licensing blog here

  • Bonnabell Bruin Theatre
  • Desert Oasis Diamondback Dramatics
  • Eastbrook Panther Theater
  • L.A. Music & Art School Musical Theatre Intensive