The Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University have named Freddie Hendricks, a middle school theater teacher at Utopian Academy for the Arts in Ellenwood, Georgia, the 2026 winner of the Excellence in Theatre Education Award. Presented by the Tony Awards in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University since 2014, the award recognizes a K-12 theater educator in the U.S. who has demonstrated exemplary impact on the li…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:05PM on May 11, 2026