Medallion Award RECIPIENTS
Corey Medallion - HISTORY & RECIPIENTS
1992 Seattle ~ Agnes Haaga-Winifred Ward
Memorial Fund; Behind the Scenes-PBS Television
1993 Boston ~ Howard Gardner-Project Zero-Harvard University; The Night Kitchen-Maurice Sendak and Arthur Yorinks; Aurand Harris
1994 Phoenix ~ National Endowment for the Arts; The Child Drama Collection of Arizona State University (Katheryn Kryzs)
1995 Minneapolis ~ The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (DC); The National Shakespeare Competition of the English-Speaking Union of the United States; The District-Wide Drama Program of Minnesota’s Robbinsdale District; Ann Stahlman Hill
1996 New York ~ Project Impact, Arts in Education Foundation; Young Audiences, New York City; Young Playwrights, Inc.; Tony Randall and the National Actors Theatre
1997 Charlotte, NC ~ Paul Sills; Brian Way; The Southeast Center for Education in the Arts; Ann M. Shaw
1998 Denver ~ Waldo M. & Grace C. Bonderman National Youth Theatre Playwriting Symposium (IN) (Dorothy Webb); The Theatre Program of the Cherry Creek School District of Colorado; The New 42nd Street, Inc.-The New Victory Theatre of New York City; Jed H. Davis
1999 Evanston, IL ~ The Illinois High School Theatre Festival; Alvin Cohen; Cecily O’Neill; The International Showcase of Performing Arts for Young People; Shari Lewis, Lamb Chop and Friends, Posthumous Medallion
2000 Washington, DC ~ International Network of Performing Arts Schools; Charles M. Schulz; New Visions/New Voices (DC); The Storytelling Foundation International; Julie Taymor
2001 San Diego ~ Suzan Zeder; The Oregon Shakespeare Festival and its Regional Outreach; The Mark Taper Forum and Thirty Years of P.L.A.Y. (CA); The Legacy of Dr. Seuss, a.k.a. Dr. Theodor Geisel
2002 Minneapolis ~ The Guthrie Theatre Education Program Minneapolis, MN); Mary Jane Evans; Nellie McCaslin; Barbara M. McIntyre; Geraldine Brain Siks
2003 New York ~ The Paper Bag Players (NYC); Lowell and Nancy Swortzell and The Program in Educational Theatre, New York University; Virginia Glasgow Koste; Anne H. Thurman; Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood: Fred Rogers and David Newell
2004 Salt Lake City ~ Patricia Whitton Forrest; National Thespian Society-75th Anniversary; Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis (MN); Harold Oaks
2005 Chicago ~ Moses Goldberg; Donald Doyle; Lin Sommers Wright; Katherine Paterson; Orlin Corey
2006 Bethesda ~ Jonathan Levy; Irene Lockridge Corey; Joseph Robinette; Bella Itkin
2007 Vancouver, B.C. ~ Christopher Gaze; Gina May; Tom Behm; Elizabeth Ball
2008 Atlanta ~ Alliance Theatre(Atlanta, GA)-Carol Jones, Rosemary Newcott, Sharon Brewer; Children’s Theatre of Charlotte (NC)-Bruce LaRowe, Alan Poindexter, Valerie Rhymer
2009 New York ~ James Still; Maxine Greene; New York State Theatre Institute and its founder Patricia Di Benedetto Snyder
2010 San Francisco ~ Pat Briggs and the Palo Alto (CA) Children’s Theatre; David Saar and Childsplay (AZ); Karen McKenney, Toni Molloy-Tudor and the Rainbow Youth Theatre of Las Vegas (NV); Eleanor and Ray Harder
The Award is renamed the Orlin Corey Medallion Award, 2010
2011 Chicago ~ Rob Goodman and First Stage Children’s Theater (Milwaukee, WI); Gloria Bond Clunie; Coleman A. Jennings
2012 Lexington ~ Ruth Beall Heinig; Nat Eek; Lexington (KY) Children’s Theatre and its Artistic Director,Vivian Snipes and Producing Director, Larry Snipes; Fund for the Arts-Louisville
2013 Cleveland ~ Linda Hartzell and the Seattle Children's Theatre; Kim Peter Kovac; The Cleveland Playhouse (OH)
2014 Denver ~ Barry Kornhauser; Denver Center Theatre Academy (CO)
2015 Chicago ~ Janet Allen & Indiana Repertory Theatre (Indianapolis); José Cruz González; Punchdrunk (Theatre) Enrichment
2016 Boston ~ Katherine Krzys; True Colors: Out Youth Theater, a program of Boston's The Theater Offensive (MA)
2017 San Francisco ~ Brian Guehring; Each One Reach One - ERO. (CA)
2018 Minneapolis ~ Johnny Saldaña; Albany Park Theater Project (Chicago)
2019 Atlanta ~ Youth Ensemble of Atlanta; Center for Puppetry Arts; Karen Zacarías-playwright and founder of Young Playwrights Theatre, Washington D.C.
2020 ~ No Corey Medallion was awarded. COVID-19 flu precautions prevented gatherings for the event.
2021 ~ Corey Medallions awarded as a special event of TYA/USA's Virtual Festival and Conference RECHARGE TYA. 2021 Honorees: Dreams of Hope (Pittsburgh, PA), Khalia Davis (Oakland, CA , Dolores Chávez (Los Angeles, CA), Jonathan Shmidt Chapman (New York, NY)