Aubrey Awards

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2026 Nominations Party Date Is Set! 

The Aubrey Award nominations Party for the 2025-2026  Season will be on  Sunday,  June 28th, 2026.  Don't miss this casual party celebration with your CT friends.  Full Details will be announced very shortly, as soon as we have confirmed the host theatre.   Check back here or visit our FB page to find out everything you will need to know.

60th Annual Aubrey Awards Celebration Date is Set! 

The Aubrey Award nominations Party for the 2025-2026  Season will be on  Sunday,  August 2nd, 2026, at the Dana.  Don't miss this exciting event with your CT friends.  Full Details  and links to the Tickets site will be announced very shortly.  Buy your tickets early and get a discount!  Check back here or visit our FB page to find out everything you will need to know.

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Hey!  I am new here  - what are the Aubrey Awards ?

The Aubrey Awards Celebration is an annual event to celebrate  those creators and performers and staff whom our ACTSDC Judges have selected for their particularly outstanding work.  At the end of each season, after all the Judges have completed their reporting, our Judging Chairperson tabulates the results and compiles a list of who the Judges have identified as outstanding in specific traditional categories of theatre production.  Those who are  identified by the Judges in each category become Aubrey Nominees.  They are announced at a Nominees Party, usually held around  June or July.  The Nominee Party is a casual event.  All Nominees receive certificates that acknowledge  and honor their outstanding work.   When the nominations have been announced you can see a complete list  of them all by clicking on the Aubrey Award Listings on the main menu, above. 

Some weeks later the nominations are published, the Aubrey Awards Celebration gala is held to present an Aubrey trophy to the persons that received the most accolades from the Judges in their category.  This is usually a dress -up event, at a nice venue,  with cocktails and dinner, and the excitement is - well, lot of fun!  Everyone there knows how much hard work went into making  a quality theatre experience for every person in every audience.  The pride of receiving an Aubrey trophy, of receiving this honorific from your peers, is genuinely a feel good moment.  And the opportunity to stand and clap and cheer for the work and devotion of your Community  Theatre friends is a great goodness as well.  

Incidentally, the award is called an Aubrey,  after the man who founded the Association of Community Theatres San Diego in 1963.   In 2015 Aubrey Dunne posthumously  received a national honor award from American Association of Community Theatres for his lifetime devotion to developing  community theatres  around San Diego county.   For  more information about our ACTSDC, check out the About link in the Main Menu.  

2026 will be the 60th Season for ACT San Diego. 

So watch this space for the Nominations Party Announcement in 2026!