AWARDS

BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Best New Play Or Musical 2022

Rock Show: A New Musical Inspired by the NK Rune Stone

Rhode Island Monthly’s Best of Rhode Island 2010

Prepare RI Arts Business Partner of the Year Award 2023

presented for RIYT’s “support, guidance, and advocacy”

Moss Hart Memorial Award — 2015

Outcast of Sherwood Forest

Rhode Island Youth Theatre’s production of its original musical, “The Outcast of Sherwood Forest”, was selected as the New England Theatre Conference (NETC) Moss Hart Memorial awardee for 2014-2015.  The presentation of the award took place at the annual awards banquet during the NETC Convention in Westford, MA.

This new musical started as a concept by student Mitchell Cardone, a participant in the Young PlayRIYTs program, and has been further developed over the past two years by RIYT students, alumni, and staff.

  • Book and Concept by Mitchell Cardone.

  • Music and Lyrics by Catie Flynn, Lauryn DeCrescenzo, Brooke Fennell, Nancy Hillner, Patrick McCrossan, Christine O’Grady, Jeffrey Roberts, Brian Roque, Harry Valentine

  • For more information about the August 2015 premiere of The Outcast of Sherwood Forest, Click Here to see the front-page article that appeared in the Providence Journal on August 16, 2015.

Moss Hart Awards — 2008

Les Miserables

In 2008, RIYT, known as Fantasy Works at the time, was awarded the NETC (New England Theatre Conference) Moss Hart special recognition award in youth theater for our 2008 production of Les Miserables at The University of Rhode Island’s Will Theatre in Kingston, RI.

The annual Moss Hart Memorial Award has a two-fold purpose: to honor the memory of Moss Hart, dramatist, and director, for his wit and sensitivity, for his unconquerable enthusiasm for life and for his work in the theatre; and to recognize and encourage outstanding theatrical productions throughout New England of play scripts that present affirmative views of human courage and dignity, that have strong literary and artistic merit, and which in their productions, exemplify fresh, imaginative, creative treatment within the intent of the playwright. The New England Theatre Conference, in making the annual Moss Hart Memorial Award, seeks to encourage artistic growth and the highest standards of excellence in theatre.