Highlands Little Theatre

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Jackie Schiel - February, 2004, Gracie Award Winner
By: Roy Riedy

Jacqueline Schiel's name was first seen in HLT documents in the March, 2003, Newsletter when her name was listed with the new members that were welcomed that month. In the June, 2003, program for Allen Branch's thriller, The Hound of the Baskervilles, her name was found with the names of the House Managers for that production and again in August for Sue McCollum's revival of The Fantasticks, performing the same service.

This season Jackie has worked with the House Managers during Melanie Boulay's revue I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, and Mike Logsdon's remarkable British import, Out of Order.

HLT President Holly Elliott presented Jackie with her February Gracie with this tribute:
Kudos to Jaqueline Schiel, the February Gracie award winner. Most of us know her as Jackie around the theater. Since she walked through our doors she was eager to lend a hand, she has worked in Anthony's Lounge for every production, meeting and special event held mixing cocktails with that inviting smile she's been graced with. Thank you Jackie for being such a dedicated volunteer for Highlands Little Theatre. Cheers!

Since winning a Gracie Award in February, 2004, Jackie has been associated with three more plays: The Scarlet Pimpernel as a House Manager for that play; Lost in Yonkers, and Jesus Christ, Superstar, also as a House Manager and moreover the management of Anthony's Lounge. At the Nineteenth Annual Zenon Ceremonies in October, 2004, Jackie was the recipient of a Board Service Award for her outstanding achievement in Bar Management of Anthony's Lounge.

What follows is an update on what Jackie has been doing since her first Zenon in 2004. The update terminates with her second Zenon in 2006.

Jackie's name has appeared in all main stage production programs for the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Seasons. With the exception of the first of those programs, Frank Oberhausen's reprise of The Music Man when Jackie's name was listed with the House Managers, the following nine programs list her name with the staff of Anthony's Lounge.

At the Twenty-first Zenon Ceremonies in October, 2006, Jackie Schiel and Ellen Lemos were presented with a Board Service Award for "their endless efforts running Anthony's Lounge."

Congratulations Jackie for your ongoing labors in Anthony's Lounge. They are an excellent example of what can be done off-stage to make Highlands Little Theatre the outstanding organization it has become. You have enhanced that tradition with your generous and friendly response.

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