The Stars come out

Author

By Jeff Smith

Publish Date

Feb. 20, 2014

Place

Lyceum Theatre

79 Horton Plaza, San Diego

The San Diego Performing Arts League is an umbrella organization dedicated to promoting local arts groups. The SDPL operates the Arts Tix booth at Horton Plaza (selling discount and full-price tickets) and the ArtsTix website.

On Monday, February 24, the Performing Arts League will present its 21st Annual Star Awards. Each organization names a special volunteer for the honor. These are the tireless, dedicated, “without whom not” folks who are often as indispensable as they are unknown.

And they don’t keep score, or demand credit; they just do whatever need doing — be it sweeping floors, tracking down a prop, marketing, financial aid, or just unconditional support of the enterprise, in particular, and the arts in general.

The Performing Arts League announces the winners in advance, in part so that they can receive congratulations before, as well as after, the ceremony.

This year’s winners — and each is a tale of untold dedication — are:

ACT-San Diego – Carol Spencer
Bach Collegium San Diego – Gary Payne
The Balboa Theatre Foundation – Ross Porter
Coronado Playhouse – Margarito G. Perez
Ion theatre company – Jen Sparkman
J*Company Youth Theatre – Julie Tedde
La Jolla Playhouse – Emilie Stone
Lamb’s Players Theatre – Kate Bower
Looking Glass Theatre – Elsie Sleeter
New Village Arts – Scott L. White
The PGK Dance Project – Robin Worley
Point Loma Actors Theatre – John Lee
PowPAC, Poway’s Community Theatre – Lynn Wolsey
St. Paul’s Cathedral Center for the Performing and Visual Arts – Bill Eadie
San Diego Center for Jewish Culture – Randy Savarese
San Diego Children’s Choir – Terri Gelbart
San Diego Civic Dance Association – Lola Thomas
San Diego Master Chorale – Loydene Keith
San Diego Performing Arts League – Barbara Maisel
San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts – Miguel Capuchino
San Diego Shakespeare Society – Susan Abernethy and Tara Pool
San Diego Symphony – Donna Bullock
Scripps Ranch Theatre – Ginny Ollis
Southern California Ballet – Danielle Murphy
UC San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance – Heather Ramey
Vantage Theatre – Marti Kranzberg
Visionary Dance Theatre – Alicia Warren

The ceremony also recognizes “Emerging Stars”: volunteers “under 30 years of age who help give promise to the future of the arts.”