1st Annual Penguin Play Awards

The 1st Annual Penguin Play Awards was an event held at the Rodger's Stage Theatre on April 9, 2009. It honoured the best staged plays and their production values included in the available eligibility year, which ran from February 8, 2008 to January 9, 2009.

The nominations were announced on March 23, 2009, with five categories available for awards. The general public were allowed to vote for which nomination that would go on to win the award for each category.

Nominations
The plays nominated for the categories were:
 * Ruby and the Ruby
 * Quest for the Golden Puffle - Won: Best Overall Play, Best Sound, Best Effects, Best Set
 * Squidzoid vs. Shadow Guy and Gamma Gal
 * The Penguins That Time Forgot
 * Fairy Fables - Won: Best Costume

Attendees
On days leading up to the ceremony, several mascots made appearances in the theatre:
 * Aunt Arctic - A well-known news reporter and editor-in-chief of the Club Penguin Times newspaper, she made her first ever appearance as a mascot during the days leading up to/and the awards ceremony. She also handed out autographs to guests who were located in the theatre at the time.
 * Cadence - A singer, DJ, dancer, musical artist and a newcomer at the time, she made her second appearance as a mascot during the days leading up to/and the award ceremony. She also handed out autographs to guests who were located in the theatre at the time.
 * Gary the Gadget Guy - A local inventor of Club Penguin Island, he made his second appearance as a mascot during the days leading up to/and the award ceremony. He also handed out autographs to guests who were located in the theatre at the time. He also handled most of the technology at the awards ceremony.
 * Penguin Band Members (G Billy, Petey K, Stompin' Bob, Franky) - A group of popular musicians, members of the band made appearances leading up to/and the award ceremony. The band also handed out autographs to guests who were located in the theatre at the time.

The Trophy
A grand total of four-hundred and thirty-three trophies were made - five of those trophies were designed for the winning nominations during the ceremony, whilst seven of the awards were given to the main attendees of the ceremony. The rest limited batch of trophies were also available to guests at the price of around thirty-thousand coins, although only roughly half of them were ever sold, leaving storage.

According to Keith Rodgers in September 2009, the trophies were "shaped out of gold that was mined from under the island in previous years".