Commendations

1. A Steering Committee will decide whether to include Commendations in a Program.
2. Commendations will honor students for outstanding achievements in high school theater, during that Program Year, or over the course of many years.
3. The Program Director will set a date by which Commendations will be received.
   1. Commendations will be named soon after Nominations are announced, and before the Gala or Ceremony.
   2. If the advisor does not email a list of Commendees to the Program Director within a time limit set by the Program Director, there will be no Commendees from that Participating School in the current Program Year.
4. Commendations may be awarded to as many as four theater students from each Participating School.
   1. The Advisor will determine Commendees after consulting with the Show Director (if the Advisor is not the Show Director).
   2. The advisor may select Commendees for any reason, including work done in shows that were not Cappies Shows.
   3. Within 48 hours after Cappies Nominations are announced, an Advisor will email a list of Commendees to the Program Director.
   4. The Advisor will be encouraged, but not required, to name, as Commendees, students who are not Nominees.
   5. All Commendees must be students at the Participating School, in grades 9 through 12, during the Program Year.
   6. The Advisor may select fewer than four Commendees.
   7. The Advisor may decline to select Commendees.
5. Commendations will be presented to Critics Teams whose rankings fall just below those of the Teams who received Nominations.
   1. The number of Critic Team Commendations will be the same as the number of Critic Team Nominations.
   2. Critics Team Commendees will be recognized in the same manner as other Commendees.
6. The Steering Committee will decide the recognition to be given Commendees.