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- Freddie Hendricks, middle-school theater teacher at Utopian Academy in Ellenwood, Georgia, won the 2026 Excellence in Theatre Education Award.
- The award, presented by the Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University, provides a $10,000 grant, tickets to the June 7 Tony ceremony in New York, and a master-class for his students.
- He founded the Youth Ensemble of Atlanta, which has sent 20-30 students to Broadway, including Saycon Sengbloh and Kenan Thompson.
