You are currently viewing Stage Coach Players Newsletter – Jan. 28, 2023
Stage Coach Players Presents Awards at Annual Banquet on Jan. 28, 2023

Stage Coach Players Newsletter – Jan. 28, 2023

Welcome 2023!

Stage Coach Players held our annual membership banquet on January 28, 2023, at El Jimador Mexican Grill in DeKalb.  We had 62 attendees join us for fajitas, awards, and dancing.

We are delighted to announce our 2023 Board of Directors, unanimously approved per role as required and specified in our bylaws, at our banquet.

  • Maria Boynton, President
  • David Booth, Past President
  • Laurie Hunyard, Vice President
  • Greg Anderson, Comptroller
  • Susan Johnson, Treasurer
  • Mandy Sester, Corresponding Secretary
  • Leigh Foulk, Recording Secretary
  • Darlene Hillman, Director without Portfolio
  • Jeff Hall, Director without Portfolio
  • John Linderoth, Director without Portfolio
  • Brad Shortridge, Director without Portfolio
  • Sara Pajor, Director without Portfolio

On our Board of Directors, our president serves for one year after serving for one year as vice president. The president from the previous year moves into a one-year term as past president. We elect a vice president, comptroller, and treasurer for one-year terms. Comptrollers and treasurers can serves consecutive terms but are not obligated to do so. We elect corresponding and recording secretaries for two-year terms. We have five directors without portfolios that all serve two-year terms as well – two of whom are elected in odd number years (such as 2023), and three of whom are elected in even number years (such as 2024).

We would like to thank exiting board members Angela Schiola-Niemeyer, Jan Kuntz, and Monique Smith for their leadership over the last few years and outstanding service to the organization, as well as Darlene Hillman, who was elected in 2023 to two-year term as a director without portfolio, for her two previous years of excellent service as our corresponding secretary.

We also celebrate our volunteers every year a our annual banquet with annual awards, decided upon and presented by our hardworking Stage Coach Players Awards Committee.  This year’s winners are:

  • ‘A Season of Sound’ Special Recognition Award
    Jenna Hunter and Allison Verbic
  • The Stage Coach Players Business of the Year Award
    The Egyptian Theatre
  • The E. Nelson James Memorial Award for Promotional Excellence 
    Sara Pajor
  • Stage Coacher of the Year Awards 
    Maria Boynton and Denny Boynton
  • The Lucille Aikens Lifetime Achievement Award
    Jan and Dan Kuntz received

Congratulations to all of our award-winners, and thank you to all our volunteers who make Stage Coach Players possible!

If you would like more information on how to become an active member of our organization and someday serve on the board or win an award yourself, we have opportunities for you on stage, behind stage, in the front of the house, or online. If you are good with a keyboard, a hammer, a light board, paint, a broom, or a microphone, we can use your help! If you don’t know about any of that but want to learn, we would love to have you. Email info@stagecoachplayers.com for more information.

Stage Coach Players is your community theatre. Won’t you join us?