2nd Annual Penguin Play Awards

The 2nd Annual Penguin Play Awards was an event held at the Rodger's Stage Theatre on March 29, 2010. It honoured the best staged plays and their production values included in the available eligibility year, which ran from January 10, 2009 to December 2, 2009.

The nominations were announced on February 8, 2010, with five categories available for rewards. The general public were allowed to vote for which nomination that would go on to win the award for each category.

This was also the final Penguin Play Awards ceremony to ever take place; this was due to budgeting issues and controversy revolving around the "rigged" winning nominations.

Background
According to an article by CLOCK magazine from December 2009, it was revealed that most of the sets and props from the first awards ceremony were in very good condition, meaning that recycling them was possible. It was also revealed that there were trophies remaining from last year that were never sold to guests.

It was planned by Phillip Price, a sculptor and artist of Rodger's Stage, to reuse ten of the previous year's trophies - five of which would be used for the winning nominees, four of them would be given to attendees and the other trophy would act as an lifetime achievement award for the second awards ceremony.

The following month afterwards, Keith Rodgers, the founder and CEO of Rodger's Stage at the time, was going to retire after working for over thirty-nine years in business. The replacement CEO, Bradley Turner, was unclear on how Keith wanted the second annual awards to be like. Despite the difficulties, the awards were eventually sorted just in time for the awards.