Overall Play

Director of a Play

Leading Female in a Play

Featured Female in a Play

Featured Male in a Play

Ensemble

Set Design

Original Script

~ K2

~ The Weir

~ Dennis Proulx ~ K2

~ Jo Pruden ~ Sister Mary Ignatius explains it all for you

~ Eden-Lee Murray ~ The Actors' Nightmare

~ Kristin Van Bodegraven ~ The Weir

~ Eric Nemoto ~ K2

~ The Weir

~ Art

~ Dennis Proulx ~ K2

~ Paul Guncheon & Henry Deardorf ~ The Weir

~ Nancy Moss ~ Anna

Po`okela  Awards

2006 ~ 11 awards

Since 1970, HSTC has been serving the state's theatre community by promoting excellence in live theatre and facilitating theatre collaboration.

The Po`okela Awards are presented to recognize and acknowledge excellence in local theatre.

  Overall Play

Featured Male in a Play

Featured Female in a Play

Leading Female in a Play

Costume Design

Set Design

~ Joe Turner's Come and Gone

~ The Goat or Who is Sylvia

~ Derrick Brown, Joe Turner's Come & Gone

~ Curtis Duncan, Joe Turner's Come & Gone

~ Thomas C. Smith, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia

~ Dusty Behner, Boston Marriage

~ Betty Burdick, Boston Marriage

~ Victoria Gail-White, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia

~ Susan Park, Betrayal

~ Carlynn Wolfe and Rose Wolfe, Joe Turner's Come & Gone

~ Andrew Doan, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia

       2003

12 nominations ~ 7 awards

The Po'okelas took a hiatus in 2005, and upon reconvening in 2006, the new selection process allows each of the three adjudicators to bestow two awards in each category.

Hence there are no more "nominees," and only recipients, who are announced during the Po'okela awards dinner program.

  Overall Play

Director of a Play

Leading Female in a Play

Leading Male in a Play

Featured Female in a Play

Featured Male in a Play

~ Equus

~ Brad Powell ~ Equus

~ Betty Burdick ~ The Effect of Gamma Rays on the Man in the    Moon Marigolds

~ Jan McGrath ~ The Insanity Case of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln

~ Noah Johnson ~ Equus

~ Eric Nemoto ~ Equus

~ Frankie Enos ~ Rain

~ Hayden De M. Yates ~ Equus

       2002

8 nominations ~ 1 award

  Overall Play

Director of a Play

Leading Female in a Play

Leading Male in a Play

Featured Female in a Play

Featured Male in a Play

Ensemble

~ Oleanna

~ Harvey

~ John Perry ~ Oleanna

~ Brad Powell ~ Gross Indecency

~ Dorothy Stamp ~ Oleanna

~ Betty Sanchez ~ As You Like it

~ Eric Nemoto ~ Oleanna

~ Richard MacPherson ~ Gross Indecency

~ Sam Polson ~ Harvey

~ Blossom Lam ~ Talking with  . . .

~ Anne-Marie Russo ~ An Evening of One Acts

~ Lew Lappert ~ As You Like it

~ Talking with . . .

                         2001

13 nominations ~ 3 awards

                                    ~ plus Adjudicators' Special Award for Innovative Theater

  Overall Play

Director of a Play

Leading Female in a Play

Leading Male in a Play

~ Buried Child

~ Brad Powell ~ Buried Child

~ Betty Sanchez ~ Buried Child

~ Sam Polson ~ Buried Child

               2000

4 nominations

  2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

~ Andy Alvarado

~ Alysson West

~ Jacin Harter

~ Keith Patterson

~ Carlynn Wolfe

~ Laurie Tanoura

~ Frankie Enos

~ Thomas Tochiki

~ Helen Rapozo

~ Brenda Lee Hillebrenner

~ Bill Carr

~ Eric Nemoto

~ Todd Middleton

~ Sam Polson

~ Brad Powell

Excellence

in Service Awards

         2004

15 nominations ~ 7 awards

  Overall Play

Director of a Play

Leading Male in a Play

Leading Female in a Play

Featured Female  in a Play

Featured Male in a Play

Ensemble

Set Design

~ On Golden Pond

~ The Trip to Bountiful

~ Two Trains Running

~ Sharon Adair ~ The Trip to Bountiful

~ Leonard Piggee ~ Two Trains Running

~ Eric Nemoto ~ The Guys

~ Jim Tharp ~ On Golden Pond

~ Jan McGrath ~ On Golden Pond

~ Jo Pruden ~ The Trip to Bountiful

~ Rasa Fournier ~ The Trip to Bountiful

~ Holly Holowach ~ The Trip to Bountiful

~ Dorothy Stamp ~ Ten Million Reawakenings

~ Moses Goods III ~ Two Trains Running

~ Two Trains Running

~ Sharon Adair ~ The Trip to Bountiful

2007 ~ 10 awards

  Overall Play

Director of a Play

Leading Male in a Play

Featured Male in a Play

Leading Female in a Play

Featured Female in a Play

Ensemble

~ Jitney

~ Derrick Brown, Jitney

~ Jim Andrews, Jitney

~ Derrick Brown, Jitney

~ F. Quenton Collins, Jitney

~Elizabeth Wolfe, Antigone

~Becky Maltby, Sylvia

~ Frankie Enos, Our Town

~Euphrosyne V.E. Rushforth, Sylvia

~ Cast of Our Town

2008 ~ 15 awards

  Overall Play

Director of a Play

Leading Male in a Play

Featured Male in a Play

Leading Female in a Play

Featured Female in a Play

Set Design

Sound Design

~ Fences

~ Merry Christmas Roberta

~ Brad Powell, The BaltimoreWaltz

~ Brad Powell, Mass Appeal

~ Brother Gary Morris, Mass Appeal

~ Jim Aina, Shadowlands

~ Peter Clark, Reunion

~ Curtis Duncan, Fences

~ Sam Polson, Shadowlands

~ Philip Andrew (Blaze) Mancillas, Mass Appeal

~Wendy Pearson, Fences

~ Hoku Gilbert,  A Kind of Alaska

~ Laurie Tanoura, Merry Christmas Roberta

~ Laurie Tanoura, The Baltimore Waltz

~ Richard Valasek, The Baltimore Waltz

2009 ~ 5 awards

Ensemble Play

Director of a Play

Featured Male in a Play

Featured Female in a Play

~ Inside Out

~ Eden-Lee Murray, Inside Out

~ Jacin Harter, The History Boys

~ Frankie Enos, The Clean House

~ Jo Pruden, The History Boys

2010 ~ 17 awards

Leading Male in a Play

Leading Female in a Play

Featured Female in a Play

Featured Male in a Play

Ensemble Play

Director of a Play

Overall Play

Set Design

Light Design

Non-Resident Guest Artist

~Russell Motter, November

~ Allan Okubo, Miso

~ Betty Burdick, Happy Days

~Jessica Kauhane, Miso

~ Elissa Dulce, Miso

~ William Ammons, The Piano Lesson

~ Eric Nemoto, Miso

~ Night of January 16th

~ Topdog/Underdog

~ Harry Wong III, Topdog/Underdog

~ Night of January 16th

~ November

~ Topdog/Underdog

~ Andy Alvarado, Topdog/Underdog

~ Andy Alvarado/Brad Powell, Miso

~ Thomas Tochiki, Miso

~ Clare Davidson, Director, Miso