Institutional Awards

Paper Mill Playhouse was awarded the American Council for the Blind / Audio Description Project's 2010 Award for Achievement in Performing Arts for our outstanding audio-description program and overall commitment to the blind and those with vision loss.  The award was bestowed in Phoenix at their annual conference on July 14th.

For twenty two consecutive years, Paper Mill Playhouse has been awarded the New Jersey State Council on the Arts’ highest honors: the Award of Excellence and Major Arts Organization distinction.

In 2009, Paper Mill Playhouse was voted “Favorite Professional Theater” in Discover Jersey Arts’ “People’s Choice Awards” and received the New Jersey Theater Alliance’s Achievement Award.

Paper Mill Playhouse received the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ 2009 Excellence in Accessibility Leadership Award, the 2009 Arts Presenters/MetLife Award for Innovation and Excellence in Access, and the Cultural Access Network of New Jersey’s 2010 Sustainer Award. These awards recognized the theater's innovative access programming, its commitment to accessibility, and its example to other arts organizations in New Jersey and across the country.