The Fliehr Award

for Exceptional Service to Minnesota Theatre

In February of 1998, as part of its 25th anniversary year, The Minnesota Association of Community Theatres (MACT) established a lifetime achievement award recognizing distinguished service to Minnesota Community Theatre. The award was named the Fliehr Award in honor of Kay and Richard Fliehr, lifelong community theatre promoters and organizers across the country. Theatre in the Round, the Guthrie Theater, MACT, ACTA (Amateur Community Theatre Association), AACT (American Association of Community Theatre) and many other theatres and organizations benefited from the Fliehrs’ knowledge, devotion, energy and excitement in the art and craft of theatre.

The Minnesota Association of Community Theatres is now accepting nominations for the Fliehr Award for Exceptional Service to Minnesota Theatre. Nominations may consider for persons who have given significant service to multiple theatres, or who have led or supported specific significant projects that made a difference to small or large theatres and their communities. The Fliehr Award recipient will be announced at the next MACT*Fest at the awards brunch on March 9, 2025. See www.mact.net for festival dates and locations.

Letters of nomination must be received no later than February 1. Nominations may be simple or extensive. Please include contact information for both nominee and nominator (phone, email, mail). Please include information about the nominee – theatres worked, roles played (onstage or off), staff or volunteer positions, committees, etc…. Stories about the nominee. Value to the theatre(s) as noted in statistics, stories, quotes, other awards, success of the theatre(s), etc. Pictures and family info welcome, too. Send your nominations to:

The Fliehr Award
c/o MACT
245 Cedar Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55454
or e-mail them to: Webmaster@MACT.net.

Previous Fliehr Award Recipients are:

1998 – Kay and Richard Fliehr;
1999 – Maj-Lis Keskela, Duluth;
2001 – Bob Samples, Hopkins;
2003 – Flo Goodrich, St Cloud; Roger DeClercq, Bloomington (& Barrett); Sylvia Langworthy, Rochester (& Goodhue); Art Dube, Minneapolis;
2005 – Sharon Stark, Owatonna; William P Muchow, Bloomington;
2007 – Bob Healy, St Paul; Jon Skaalen, Stillwater;
2009 – Donna Norberg, Minneapolis; Tim Ray, Barrett; Diane Cloeter, Faribault; Myrna Johnson, Northfield;
2011 – Jan Dickinson, Robbinsdale; Jim McDonald, Fergus Falls; Kris Nelson, Cloquet;
2013 – Cheryl Kramer-Milder, Cloquet.
2015 – Julianna Skluzacek, Owatonna; Clifford Lundberg, Elk River; David Metcalf, Dassel-Cokato;
2017 – Steve Antenucci, Minneapolis;
2019 – Jerry Girton, Austin;
2021 – Dennis Hansen, Pipestone; Carol Pint, New Prague; Larry Pint, New Prague;
2023 – Curtis (Curt) Bredeson, Starbuck; Kathy Ray, Barrett; Michael Ricci, Brooklyn Park;