Moorestown Theater Company Named Outstanding Theater Of The Year

Press release from MTC:

Oct. 5, 2022

The award-winning, non-profit Moorestown Theater Company (MTC) was chosen from among 150+ community theaters as New Jersey’s ‘Outstanding Community Theater Of The Year’ for 2022 by the New Jersey Association Of Community Theatres (NJACT). The award was presented on Sunday, September 18, 2022 at NJACT’s Annual ‘Perry Awards Ceremony’, which was held at the Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway, NJ.

“Moorestown Theater Company exhibited a dedication to their community and the arts, even through unprecedented times,” said NJACT President P. J. Campacci. “From their beginnings in July 2003 with a 90- member, all-ages cast delivering eight performances of Annie, MTC has grown to an awe-inspiring 928 performances of 206 productions with the inclusion of 8,795 multigenerational cast members through August 2022. We are proud to introduce Moorestown Theater Company as our 2022 recipient of NJACT’s ‘Outstanding Community Theater Of The Year’ Award’!”

In its 20th Anniversary Season, Moorestown Theater Company has been the honored recipient of several additional awards this year, including:
• ‘Best Community Theater Award’ by the Readers of SJ Magazine
• ‘Best Live Theater Award’ by the Readers of The Burlington County Times
• ‘Best Collaborative Effort Of The Year Award’ with BAYADA Home Health Care by the Non Profit Development Center of Southern New Jersey

“We are extremely humbled and honored to be selected as the recipient of this very prestigious award,” said Mark Morgan, MTC’s Co-Founding Producing Artistic Director. “We thank the NJACT Board for recognizing our contributions to the community and our commitment to keeping musical theater alive during the COVID-19 pandemic. MTC was proud to work with passionate community members to produce and perform 19 LIVE musicals between June 2020 and December 2021 when most of the theater world was shut down.”

MTC continues a run of South Jersey Community Theaters recently winning this award as Haddonfield Plays & Players won in 2019, and The Road Company won in 2016. MTC is the 23rd Community Theater to receive this award since it was first given out in 1999. (There was no award given in 2021.)

Please join MTC in celebrating these honors at its upcoming fund-raising dinner-dance, its Extrava-Gala, on Saturday, October 15 from 6 PM to Midnight at the Westin Mount Laurel Hotel at 555 Fellowship Road. Channel 6abc News Anchor (and MTC Trustee and Performer) Rick Williams will serve as Master of Ceremonies. There will be live musical performances by MTC Cast Members, and dance music by MTC Trustee Tom McHale and his band, ‘Radiation Nation’, as well as auctions, raffles, and gaming tables. Tickets can be purchased at MoorestownTheaterCompany.org, with questions answered at 856 / 778-8357.

The Moorestown Theater Company is a non-profit 501(c)(3) performing arts organization, that was founded on March 31, 2003 by Mark Morgan (Producing Artistic Director), his wife Carol Ann Murray (Managing Director), and his mother-in-law Beverly Bennett (Music Director).

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