Theater organizations took home a run of medals at the sixth annual Anthem Awards, including two Golds: one for Springboard to Design’s free summer program and one for Project Healthy Minds’ partnership with Broadway’s Every Brilliant Thing.
The Anthem Awards are run by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the body behind the Webby Awards, and they recognize social-impact work by nonprofits, brands and individuals. They are not theater prizes. The 2026 winners list puts arts groups alongside health charities, conservation campaigns and global brands, which is why the five winners tied to the stage stand out.
Springboard to Design won Gold in Community Engagement and Silver in LGBTQ+ Advocacy & Support for its Summer Program, a free, weeklong course in New York that introduces high school students from communities historically shut out of the field to theater design. The program, led by Tony-winning designers Clint Ramos and David Zinn, offers hands-on workshops, mentoring and career guidance. It has been here before: in 2022, entered by the American Theatre Wing, it took Bronze in the same Community Engagement category.
Project Healthy Minds won Gold in Partnership or Collaboration for its role as impact partner to the Tony-nominated Broadway production of Every Brilliant Thing, starring Daniel Radcliffe. A QR code in every Playbill sent audiences to a co-branded mental health marketplace, and the nonprofit says that link drew more than 4,000 unique visitors in ten weeks. Founder and CEO Phil Schermer also joined Radcliffe for a post-show talkback.
TDF collected three medals for a three-part video series, launched in 2025, about its Autism Friendly Performances: Silver for Social Content Series, Silver for Accessibility & Disability Inclusion and Bronze for General Social. The performances adjust a Broadway show for audiences with autism and sensory or communication disorders, softening jarring sounds and adjusting the lighting, and sell tickets on a sliding scale. TDF reports more than 511,000 views for the films and a stated aim of growing the season from six performances a year to 12 by fiscal 2028.
The Theater Offensive, the Boston company that co-produced Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway, took six medals in all. Its Broadway work earned a Silver in Social Content Series for a campaign documenting what it meant to join a Broadway production as a co-producer. The company also won Silvers for Move Ya Body: The Birth of House, its Trans Day of Visibility programming and its Black Legacy Dinner, and Bronzes for its 2025 impact report and its website.
The American Theatre Wing rounds out the group with a Bronze in Education or Literacy Program or Platform for its Master Class series, in which working professionals teach sessions for people starting out in theater. The same series won Silver in that category in 2023 and again in 2025.
The full list of 2026 winners is on the Anthem Awards website.
