Selected Highlights

1997

The Music Lesson, commissioned in 1997, is published by Dramatic Publishing Company.

1998 Recognition of Jim Thorpe All-American as the Best Educational Program for 1998.

2000

Prime Stage is selected as the recipient of the Winifred Ward Award for the Outstanding Children’s Theatre Company in the United States by the American Alliance for Theatre and Education.

2002

Recognition of Emily Gup as best youth actress for her role as Heidi.

2003

Honorable Mention for Twelve Angry Men in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

2003

Prime Stage presented a new program during the production of Twelve Angry Men in conjunction with the CISP program of the Allegheny County Juvenile Court System for rehabilitated juvenile offenders, parole officers, judges and families.

2004

Partnered with the SciTech Festival at the Carnegie Science Center to produce A Wrinkle In Time.

2004

The Music Lesson honored as the Distinguished Play of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education.

2004

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum selects the Artistic Director to create a national model of producing Holocaust theatre.

2005

Wayne Brinda was recognized for directing I Never Saw Another Butterfly and The Terezin Promise by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

2006

Prime Stage received a grant from the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America to conduct the study, Connect Kids to the Classics, with our production of Great Expectations. The Act 48 Teacher Workshop series featured Lois Lowry, Newbery Award Author of The Giver during the regional premiere of the novel’s stage adaptation.