Logan Arroyo
Will Bloom, Big Fish: School Edition
Lincoln-Way East High School
Jimmy Awards
Regional Awards Programs
Broadway In Chicago Illinois High School Musical Theatre Awards
Chicago, IL
2026 Ceremony Date: May 11, 2026
The Broadway In Chicago Illinois High School Musical Theatre Awards (IHSMTA) celebrate excellence in high school theatre throughout the State of Illinois.
Nominees
2026
Jane Nuich
Eurydice, Hadestown: Teen Edition
Maine South High School
2025
Jamaur Houston
Jack, Into the Woods
The Chicago Academy for the Arts
Sophia Lesia Leverett
Ursula, Disney's The Little Mermaid
Providence Catholic High School
2024
Jazmin Rhodes
Hope Cladwell, Urinetown
Homewood Flossmoor High School
George Spiegel
Pippin, Pippin
Maine South High School
2023
Payton Fraser
Suzanne Prevot, The Hello Girls
Joliet West High School
Will Gonzalez
Usnavi, In the Heights
Mundelein High School
2022
Joseph Kotze
Sweeney Todd, Sweeney Todd
Lincoln-Way East High School
Regan Wright
Alice Murphy, Bright Star
York Community High School
2021
Marcus McGee
Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School
Sydney Olson
Harry D. Jacobs High School
2019
Marguerite Reed
Betty Haynes, White Christmas
Mother McAuley High School
Jacob Simon
Bobby Child, Crazy for You
Deerfield High School
2018
Natalie Doppelt
Sister Mary Robert, Sister Act
Deerfield High School
Darian Goulding
Beast, Beauty and the Beast
Hampshire High School
2017
Carly Meyer
Hodel, Fiddler on the Roof
Glenbrook North High School
Justin Smusz
Chad, All Shook Up
Benet Academy
2016
Jack Cahill-Lemme
Edward Bloom, Big Fish
Maine South High School
Cecilia Trippiedi
Eliza Doolittle, My Fair Lady
Carl Sandburg High School
2015
Grace Etzkorn
Winifred Banks, Mary Poppins
Benet Academy
Ben Love
Edward Bloom, Big Fish
Byron High School
2014
Jonah Rawitz
Usnavi, In the Heights
Adlai E. Stevenson High School
Julia Lindsey Whitcomb
The Drowsy Chaperone, The Drowsy Chaperone
Belvidere North High School
2013
John Clay III
Jean Valjean, Les Misérables
Oak Park River Forest High School
Taylor Marie Sherry
Millie Dillmount, Thoroughly Modern Millie
St. Charles North High School
2012
Meadow Nguy
Dorothy Gale, The Wizard of Oz
O’Fallon Township High School
Nathan Salstone
Phantom of the Opera, The Phantom of the Opera
Glenbrook North High School