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Alexandria Jones
Alexandria Jones is our Spring Creek Mechanical Performing Arts Student of the Month. Allie is a junior at American Leadership Academy and has been heavily involved in both drama and music for years. She’s the type of person who generally stays quiet and seems shy, but performing brings her right out of her shell and gives her a voice. Her personality and demeanor make her the person that everyone wants to be around. Her quiet work ethic is admirable; Allie has a 3.9 GPA and is on track to finish an associate’s degree from UVU upon graduating high school - something that eats up a lot of time already taken up by Allie’s heavy involvement in both drama and music. Allie is the pianist for the jazz band, principal clarinetist in the symphony orchestra, and performs some guitar and banjo on the side as occasion permits. Allie began learn-
ing the piano at 9 years old and the clarinet at 12, and added the banjo at age 13 during the 8th grade. She was hooked on theater when she saw her older sister perform in Henry V and one of her friends convinced her to audition for the school play. Now, she’s the vice president of the Thespian Troupe, and has one of the lead roles in the play this month (coming out Feb. 24th @ ALA). One of her favorite roles is Puck from Midsummer Night’s Dream, which she was able to play last year in the montage comedy ShakeSPLOSION!!! In her free time, Allie loves writing poetry and historical fiction. She is working on an Epic poem with a friend, at about 2,000 words, with a goal of 10,000. (The Iliad is 200,000 just for reference, but, who’s counting?) In order to manage her extra homework load with college classes, Allie added a study hall to her class schedule. And a summer class. She stays diligent doing homework right after school/rehearsals, especially on weekends with the 3-day weekend. Allie also works at MOD Pizza somehow and still manages to keep up with the busy rehearsal, performance, and homework load.
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