Cape May County and The Performing Arts Center of Middle Township will continue to play roles in the future of the Miss New Jersey Pageant despite the show’s transfer from Ocean City to Atlantic City.
Kay Aspell, managing director of The PAC, has been appointed as a member of the pageant’s board of directors, adding to her role as pageant producer for the second straight year. Both positions are voluntary. Aspell, a former Miss Cape May County, is also director of the summer theatre camp at the arts center where audience and cast numbers have set records.
In addition, The PAC will host six regional contests, the winners of which will qualify for the Miss New Jersey Pageant in 2020. This year’s regional winners have already been chosen and will vie for the state title at Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City in June.
The upcoming PAC regionals, to be held from July to late autumn, will be for the titles of Miss Seashore Line, Miss Coastal Shore, Miss Atlantic Shore, Miss South Shore, Miss Cape Shores and Miss Eastern Shore.
The PAC has produced five contestants who have won the Miss New Jersey pageant since 2011. One of them, Kaitlyn Schoeffel (Miss Eastern Shore) finished as high as second runner up in the Miss America pageant in 2018.
Other state winners from PAC preliminaries include Kathryn Nicole, Miss Coastal Shore, 2011; Cierra Kaylor Jones, Miss Coastal Shore, 2014; Brenna Weick, Miss South Shore, 2017 and Jamie Gialoretto, Miss South Shore, 2019.
