Meet Your Director & Choreographer
NJ NATIONAL TEENAGER PAGEANT
- 2011 Selected to serve as director liasion to the national office
- 2010 Service award - recognized for 20 years of leadership, dedication and service to the National Teenager organization.
- 2010 Largest state pageant
- 2009 Distinction of being home to 9 national queens in the past 11 years
- 2008 Director of the year
- 2008 Putting up the numbers award-(largest state pageant)
- 2007 Best state production
- 2007 Largest state pageant
- 2006 Best state production
- 2006 Largest state pageant
- 2005 Voted best state production-by turn for the judges
- 2005 Largest state pageant
Executive Director, CANDY BRENNER
Executive Director, Candy Brenner, whose love of people and strong belief in the positive affect that pageants have on today's young women have led her to become involved in many different aspects of the pageant world over the past twenty-five years. She served as a volunteer with the Miss America Organization for ten years and is a certified Miss America Judge. This experience led her to serve as a prelim director for Miss NJ MAO for several years, and the past 21 years she has served as state director for the NJ National Teenager Scholarship Pageant. Known for her ability to not only recognize inner beauty and talent in today’s young women, she has the experience, knowledge and insight to help them discover these qualities in themselves.
“Serving as state director has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life; it has given me an opportunity to form life-long friendships with outstanding young women from all over the state, while providing an opportunity to further their education through the awarding of college tuition scholarships. I will always be grateful to the National Teenager Organization; it has enriched my life a thousand fold!”
MICHAEL HARTMAN (Producer/Choreographer)
As Artistic Director for Ocean City New Jersey’s Professional Stock Type Theatre Company and Staging Director for the Ocean City POPS, Mike has Directed/Choreographed: Joseph, The World Goes Round, Seussical, Grand Night For Singing, Grease, Forum, The Wizard of Oz and Bye Bye Birdie. When not running the Summer Broadway Series, Mike oversees the theatre education programs for OCTC and the City of Ocean City Dept. of Recreation. In 2009, Mike joined the Cabrini College Theatre Department as Choreographer for their Musical Theatre program. In 2011, Mike joined the 6 ABC/Philadelphia Thanksgiving Parade Production Team as Choreographer/Coordinator of the "Salute To Broadway" production number that featured over 100 high school youth from around the Delaware Valley.
Mike has been responsible for Pageant Production and Choreography in over 25 states and the Virgin Islands, as well as, four Miss America Preliminary Titles and is the National Producer/Choreographer for America's National Teenager. His work has been recognized for three years in a row as “Best Production” for NJ National Teenager and recognized nationally as Outstanding Pageant Production by the Turn For The Judges Magazine. Currently, Mike serves on the Advisory Board for Cultural Affairs at West Chester University.
Michael Hartman www.michaeljhartman.net