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The Dieter Penzhorn Memorial Award is awarded to an individual who has provided significant and sustained service to the Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology/Institut canadien des technologies scénographiques, while playing an active role in the development of the greater Canadian cultural community. The 2015 award was presented to the Founding Members of CITT, marking the organisation’s 25^th anniversary. The Founding Members include: Normand Bouchard, James Carnite, Patricia Christensen, Paul Court, Graham Frampton and Ken Hewitt.

Phil has had a remarkable career that has covered many aspects of the live performance industry in Canada. His prodigious resume includes his time as resident designer at the Citadel Theatre, his position as professor, then Department Chair and finally Faculty Dean for York University’s theatre department in the Faculty of Fine Arts, his work as a Theatre Architecture and Design consultant and his over 300 production designs for theatres across the country. Phil has served as a member on a number of Canadian cultural and theatre committees and boards and has won several awards including his induction into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2008. Any individual aspect of his career, whether as a designer, an educator, an administrator or his service to the theatre community, makes Phil worthy of the Ron Epp Memorial Award for Professional Achievement.

A.C. Lighting Inc., a Toronto-based company, is a value added distributor of stage, studio and event lighting accessories and consumables, including Chroma-Q, Jands, LumenRadio, ArKaos and Prolyte. A.C. Lighting has been avid supporter of the CITT/ICTS for many years. They have been part of the CITT/ICTS’s annual trade show for many years, have sponsored numerous CITT/ICTS events and have provided professional development opportunities to CITT/ICTS members with their seminars on LEDs presented by Manager Director Jean-François Canuel. The A.C. Lighting team in Toronto has demonstrated a true and sustained commitment to the CITT/ICTS, its members and the industry at large.

iHuman Youth Society, founded in 1997, is a non-profit organization that engages Edmonton’s traumatized youth, who exhibit high-risk lifestyles, to foster positive personal development and social change. They serve approximately 500 youth, aged 15-24, and seek to re-integrate them into the community by developing skills, self-esteem and a sense of worth and ability through mentorship, crisis intervention and targeted arts-based programming. Many of the youth deal with multiple issues that make their lives challenging, including poverty, homelessness, addictions, mental health issues, gang affiliation and familial neglect or abuse. Too often these young people feel no sense of self-worth or that they have nothing to hope for. By involving these youth in arts-based activities, for an average of 3 years, iHuman helps them heal and discover their own identity, and gives constant support and guidance while they transition into independent living and healthy life choices.