East End Arts & Humanities Council will present the 2021 Teeny Awards, emceed by radio host Gianna Volpe, on Sunday, July 11, at 6 p.m. at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center. The ceremony will be a hybrid in-person and virtual ceremony with in-person presenters, performers and nominees and will be shown via Facebook Live on the Teeny Awards Facebook page, facebook.com/teenyawards.
The Teeny Awards is a high school theater recognition program founded in 2002. Now entering its 19th year, the program recognizes and celebrates talented theater students across the East End with 18 schools participating in 2021. At the ceremony, students receive awards in traditional play and musical categories, as well as new categories that East End Arts created during the pandemic for musical revues, variety shows and video recordings.
Teeny Awards coordinator Kasia Klimiuk and radio host Gianna Volpe of 88.3 WLIW-FM will announce the nominees live on WLIW on Thursday, June 24, at 10 a.m. For more information about the Teeny Awards, visit eastendarts.org.