- 2026 TOPPERs Entries
-
SHOW
THEATER & COMMUNITY
Aviano Air Base
Enchanted April
Aviano Community & Schools Theater
School of Rock
Aviano Community & Schools Theater
USAG Wiesbaden
Once Upon A One More Time
The Amelia Earhart Playhouse
Wait until Dark
USAG Ansbach
Mean Girls
The Ansbach Terrace Playhouse
Exit Stage Left Pursued by a Bear
The Ansbach Terrace Playhouse
USAG Stuttgart
The Addams Family Musical
The Stuttgart Theatre Center
Clybourne Park
The Stuttgart Theatre Center
USAG SHAPE
Murder on The Orient Express
SHAPE Players Performing Arts Centre
Beetlejuice Jr.
SHAPE Players Performing Arts Centre
USAG Italy/Vicenza
9 to 5: The Musical
The Soldiers’ Theatre
Ramstein Air Base
Clue!
Ramstein Razz Ma Tazz Theatre
USAG Bavaria/Grafenwoehr
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Bavaria Performing Arts
Reunion
Bavaria Performing Arts
- Adjudication Schedule
-
SHOW
COMMUNITY
TIME
FEB. 12
Thurs.
Enchanted April
Aviano Community & Schools Theater
1800
14
Sat.
Once Upon A One More Time
Amelia Earhart Playhouse
1930
27
Fri.
Mean Girls
Ansbach Terrace Playhouse
1830
28
Sat.
The Addams Family Musical
Stuttgart Theatre Center
1930
March 6
Fri.
Murder on The Orient Express
SHAPE Players Performing Arts Centre
1900
13
Fri.
9 to 5: The Musical
Soldiers’ Theatre
1900
15
Sun
School of Rock
Aviano Community & Schools Theater
1400
19
Thurs.
Clue!
Ramstein Razz Ma Tazz Theatre
1900
20
Fri.
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Bavaria Performing Arts
1900
21
Sat.
Exit Stage Left Pursued by a Bear
Ansbach Terrace Playhouse
1930
22
Sun
Wait until Dark
Amelia Earhart Playhouse
1500
April 10
Fri.
Beetlejuice Jr.
SHAPE Players Performing Arts Centre
1900
11
Sat.
Piper
KMC Onstage
19:00
12
Sun.
Clybourne Park
Stuttgart Theatre Center
1500
13
Mon
Reunion
Bavaria Performing Arts
1900
- Adjudicators and Workshop Leaders
-
Andrea Huber is an internationally renowned performer and director.
A graduate of Illinois
Wesleyan University, she is also an Irene Ryan National Acting Award Winner.
As an opera singer and musical theatre performer, she has performed at the Krefeld-Moenchengladbach Opera House; the Graz Opera House; the Vienna Staatsoper; the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; the Prague State Opera; the Opernhaus Zürich; and other major opera houses in Europe. She has also performed as an actress and singer in South Africa, Norway, Greece and the US.
Recently, Andrea appeared in Nine and Kiss of the Spiderwoman in Baden bei Wien in Austria and presented her one-woman Kurt Weill show in Graz, Austria.
As a director, Andrea directed The Marriage of Figaro for the Boston Opera Collaborative. She also directed Oliver! and Sweeney Todd at the former Roadside Theater in Heidelberg.
Andrea has served as an adjudicator and workshop leader for past US Army TOPPERs, the IMCOM E One Page Play Festival, and the IMCOM E One Act Play Festival.
Andrea is a certified Music Therapist with her own practice at Making Waves and a corporate consultant with Siemens Austria International.
Jonathon Lamer has served as a TOPPER
s Adjudicator and Workshop Leader since 2011.Jonathon is a Los Angeles based professional actor with a long list of credits. Originally from East Alton, Il., he has appeared in regional theaters in St. Louis, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Memphis and Little Rock as well as in theatres all over the greater Los Angeles area.
He appeared in the HBO original films Soul of the Game, and Truman, as well as the independent features Lovely by Surprise and Night Sights. Commercial credits include PetSmart, Kroger’s and Amarillo National Bank. He also is on the roster of talent for Vérité, a legal service which provides mock trial environments to help lawyers prepare for cases.
Jonathon has adjudicated educational theater festivals across California; is a resident artist at The Chance Theater in Anaheim; and is a Respondent at the Lenaea Theatre Festival in Sacramento. Jonathon is a certified AACT adjudicator.
Dane Winters received his M.F.A. in Acting and Directing from Trinity University at the
Dallas Theatre Center. He has been a member of US Army Europe Entertainment for 39 years having served as Music Center Director in Bamberg, Germany (1986-88); Theater Center Director and Entertainment Director in Stuttgart, Germany (1988-2000) and Entertainment Director in Heidelberg, Germany (2000-2012).As an actor/singer, Dane has appeared in The Woman in Black, All My Sons, The Mystery of Irma Vep, A Funny Thing Happened on the Forum, Once Upon a Mattress, Art, Hello Dolly!, Hay Fever, Torch Song Trilogy, Pride & Prejudice, Black Comedy, Three Penny Opera, Henry V, Twelfth Night, et al.
Stage direction credits include Jekyll & Hyde, Little Shop of Horrors, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Honk!, Titanic, The Lion in Winter, Dracula, My Fair Lady, The Secret Garden, Anything Goes, Prelude to a Kiss, Lost in Yonkers, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Crazy for You, Noises Off, The Sound of Music, et al. Dane was also the voice director for the English language version of the video game "Two Worlds."
As a producer/designer, he has staged the American amateur premiere of Les Misérables. He has also produced and directed Beauty & the Beast, School for Scandal, Victor/Victoria, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Charlotte's Web, Gypsy, Cats, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Rumors, Steel Magnolias, The Will Rogers Follies, Aspects of Love, et al.
Dane is on the faculty of the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, where he is an acting teacher. He also serves as the Region X representative to the American Association of Community Theatre (AACT).
Dane is currently the IMCOM Europe Entertainment Program Manager located in Sembach, Germany.
Dane has received numerous awards for his direction, set and lighting designs, and innovative programming. He was awarded with the AACT David C. Bryant Outstanding Service Award; the US Army Entertainment James T. Martin Lifetime Service Award; and numerous Commanders’ Achievement and Civilian Service Medals. Dane’s programming and theatre direction has earned four US Army Entertainment Irving Berlin Awards.
- Awards Show and Ceremony - 25 Apr. 2026
-
The 2025 TOPPERs Awards Show
will be held 26 April 2025 at the Wiesbaden Fitness Arena, Building 1631, Lucius D. Clay Kaserne, Wiesbaden, Germany.Awards Show AdmissionAdmission = $20Family Pass Admission = $50 (Two adults, 2 or more children)Optional Gala DinnerAdults = $35Youth (12 yrs. and under) = $12Awards Show & Ceremony Schedule1630: No-Host Cocktail Service (Optional)
1700: Arena and seating opens
1800: Gala Dinner service (Optional)
1900-2130: Awards show and presentations
Gala Dinner Menu : TO BE ANNOUNCED - Entry Show Posters
-
Under construction
- Entry Show Programs
-
Under Construction
- Press Releases, Coverage and Official Photos
-
Under construction
- 2026 TOPPERs Awards and Nominations
-
To be announced on April 25, 2026.
- 2026 Celebrity Awards Presenters
-
To be announced
- 2026 TOPPERs Commercial Sponsors
-
Under construction
- 2026 TOPPERS Awards Show Video
-
To be recorded April 25, 2026
The 65th annual TOPPERs adjudication will take place from 13 Feb. to 13 Apr. 2026 at US Army Entertainment programs and US Military Theatres across Europe.
Dane Winters, IMCOM Europe Entertainment Program Manager