NH Theatre Awards

Policy: Nominee Eligibility

PROFESSIONAL
Any person, regardless of prior experience, history, employment, or payment, working in a professional production produced by a professional company SHALL BE ELIGIBLE for an NHTA award for the category that applies to the position he/she performed in.

COMMUNITY
Any person, regardless of prior experience, history, employment, or payment, working in a community production produced by a community company SHALL BE ELIGIBLE for an NHTA award for the category that applies to the position he/she performed in, with the following exceptions:

All “Actor/Actress” categories:
Any person who presently holds a union membership (Equity card) or has held membership any time in the three (3) years prior to the present qualifying year, SHALL BE INELLIGIBLE for a community acting award.

“Director” category:
Any person who presently holds a union membership (SSDC card) or has held membership any time in the three (3) years prior to the present qualifying year, SHALL BE INELLIGIBLE for a community directing award.

HOW TO ADJUDICATION QUESTIONABLE NOMINEES
When an Adjudicator has a concern regarding the validity of a nomination (examples: professional actor nominated in a Community Theatre production; Professional Costumer Nominated in a Community Theatre production; a Set reused from another production) they should proceed in the following manner:

DO

Email the NHTA Administrators to inform us of your concern (Admin@NHTAdjudication.org) immediately after the Adjudication
Score and Comment the nominee/production without regard to the concern

DO NOT

Mention the concern in the comments
Adjust the score in any way based on the concern

All concerns will be directly addressed by the NHTA Administrators. Any ineligible situations will be removed from Adjudication by the NHTA Adminsitrators.