Shellie Awards

PCT Wins Outstanding Musical Production

Pittsburg Community Theatre was there when it all began at the first awards ceremony in 1979. Since then PCT has been honored with 33 Shellie Awards for Production and Acting. Additionally, there have been 15 Special Shellie Awards bestowed on the recipients contribution to PCT and the theatre arts. In 2020, PCT was honored with their very first Outstanding Musical Production Shellie Award for “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat!” We are so proud to be receive such great recognition for our work.

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Shellie Award History

Shellie Awards innovator Scott Denison says, “The Shellie Awards were founded in 1979 in order to recognize outstanding achievement in the performing arts in the Central Contra Costa/Diablo Valley region. This is an evening to honor the nominees as well as the award winners.” The name Shellie was derived from the venue in which the first ceremony took place – the walnut packing warehouse – lovingly called the Nuthouse by all who performed there. During off-season of the walnut harvest, the Walnut Growers Association loaned the building to local organizations and theatre companies who constructed a temporary stage and audience risers in the mid-1960’s to bring live performances to the Walnut Creek area. In January of 1991, the Shellie Awards ceremony was held in the newly opened Regional Center for the Arts.

Pittsburg Community Theatre is one of the few original theatre companies to have participated in the very first awards ceremony and has for the last 40 years.

Past Shellie Award Winners

YEAR	RECIPIENT	CATEGORY(S)
1989	Betty Brown	Special Contribution to the Performing Arts Award
1990	Vince Aiello	Outstanding Choreography for “Hello Dolly”
1990	Loran Caputi-Watkins	Outstanding Costuming for “Hello Dolly”
1991	David Ward	Special Contribution to the Performing Arts Award
1991	Elizabeth Growney	Outstanding Supporting Actress for “Inherit the Wind”
1992	Vince Aiello	Outstanding Choreography for “Oklahoma”
1993	Evelyn Arms	Special Contribution to the Performing Arts Award
1994	Marilyn Simmonds-Cole	Outstanding Supporting Actress for “Cinderella”
1994	Heather Cousins	Outstanding Supporting Actress for “To Kill a Mockingbird”
1995	Charlotte & Mel Nash	Special Contribution to the Performing Arts Award
1996	Heidi Schmidt	Outstanding Supporting Actress for “Annie”
1997	Pamela Arms	Special Contribution to the Performing Arts Award
1997	Dianne Beaulieu Arms	Outstanding Costuming for “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”
1998	Kevin Burns	Outstanding Actor for “The Boyfriend”
1998	Dianne Beaulieu Arms	Outstanding Costuming for “The Boyfriend”
1999	Nadine Whitfield	Outstanding Musical Director for “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”
1999	Betty Gregg	Special Contribution to the Performing Arts Award
2000	Linda Kalb	Outstanding Actress for “Oliver”
2001	Jerry Annoni	Outstanding Actor for “Fiddler on the Roof”
2001	Dianne Beaulieu Arms	Outstanding Costuming for “Fiddler on the Roof”
2001	Millie Patterson	Special Contribution to the Performing Arts Award
2002	Kevin Burns	Outstanding Supporting Actor for “Something’s Afoot”
2003	Pamela Arms Kzensulak and Jennifer Long Gunderman	Outstanding Choreography for “Guys and Dolls”
2003	Jennifer Long Gunderman	Special Contribution to the Performing Arts Award
2003	Mel Nash	Outstanding Lighting Design for “The Rainmaker”
2003	Katie Van Drake	Outstanding Supporting Actress for “Guys & Dolls”
2003	Sarah Mattson	Outstanding Actress for “Guys & Dolls”
2005	Marlene Ward	Special Contribution to the Performing Arts Award
2006	Dianne Beaulieu Arms	Outstanding Costuming for “Arsenic and Old Lace”
2006	Jeremy Ward	Special Contribution to the Performing Arts Award
2008	Shawn Bonnington	Outstanding Supporting Actor for “Rumors”
2010	Betty Brown	Outstanding Costuming for “An Inspector Calls”
2011	Honey & Jack O’Leary	Special Contribution to the Performing Arts Award
2013	Dianna Schepers	Special Contribution to the Performing Arts Award
2013	Kevin Burns	Outstanding Supporting Actor for “Laughter on the 23rd Floor”
2014	Ronn Tonn	Outstanding Lighting Design for “MAS*H”
2014	Alex Schepers	Outstanding Supporting Actor for “MAS*H”
2015	Cherie Persing	Special Contribution to the Performing Arts Award
2015	Susan Dodge	Outstanding Costuming for “South Pacific”
2016	Sunny Shergil	Outstanding Lighting Design for “Greater Tuna”
2017	Steven W Mergogey-Conti	Special Contribution to the Performing Arts Award
2018	Tiana Paulding	Outstanding Choreography in a Musical for “Hairspray”
2019	Bobbie Barlow	Outstanding Costuming for “Shrek Jr”
2019	Keith Barlow	Outstanding Actor for “Next to Normal”
2019	Kenneth Matis	Outstanding Actor for “Taming of the Shrew”
2019	Marilyn Berg-Cooper	Special Contribution to the Performing Arts Award
2020	Dianna Schepers	Outstanding Lighting Design for “Spamalot”
2020	Production Award	Outstanding Musical awarded to “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”