- 2026 TOPPERs Entries
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- Adjudication & Workshop Schedule
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- Adjudicators and Workshop Leaders
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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 TOPPERs 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, 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 is also featured in the latest print ad campaign for Walgreens Pharmacies. Jonathon has adjudicated theater festivals across California; is a member of Hollywood's Theatre of Note; and is a Respondent at the Lenaea Theatre Festival in Sacramento.
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, 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
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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
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- Press Releases, Coverage and Official Photos
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- 2026 TOPPERs Awards and Nominations
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To be announced on April 25, 2026.
- 2026 Celebrity Awards Presenters
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- 2026 TOPPERs Commercial Sponsors
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- 2026 TOPPERS Awards Show Video
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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