2018 Orpheum High School Musical Theatre Awards

MARQUEE May 24, 2018

Dear HSMTA Supporter, Thank you for joining us this evening as the Orpheum Theatre Group celebrates the incredible talent gracing the Mid-South’s high school stages! It is a special night for all of us at the Orpheum. I am glad you are here to share it with us.

When I remember my experience of participating in high school theatre (back in the dark ages before computerized light boards, social media marketing or any program like the HSMTAs), I recall a group of students who were passionate, but had limited talent in their craft.

Tonight, you will see how all of that has changed! The level of talent found in our area high schools is unmatched. You will see that talent on full display in the musical selections and performances that are included in tonight’s program.

Much of the credit for the dramatic improvement (dramatic… get it?) in high school musicals must be given to the teachers and directors. These educators devote a great deal of time, energy and skill to their productions. Their exceptional dedication is reflected in the young people they teach. The Orpheum says, “thank you” to all the amazing teachers, directors and dreamers who make these shows happen year-after-year on high school stages across the Mid-South.

We wish to express our thanks to the parents and caregivers who introduced their children to the theatre, let them pursue their passion with encouragement and made sure they were given the tools they required to succeed. Without adult support, none of these performances would be possible.

Most importantly, to the young people who perform, the Orpheum Theatre Group salutes you!

It takes dedication, perseverance and a lot of sweat to pull off a large musical production successfully. All of you know that first hand. We say “Bravo” to your efforts.

Let me also thank the Education Department of the Orpheum for their hard work. Led by Director of Education Lindsay Krosnes, the team consisting of staff members Brittany Cooper-d’Orsay and Jennifer Douberly, judges, artistic staff and student volunteers devoted countless hours to make tonight a success. They have VP of Education, Jennifer McGrath’s, and my deepest appreciation and affection.

The biggest take-away for me from the HSMTAs, however, is the comfort of knowing the future of the American musical theatre tradition is bright! The young performers of the Mid-South prove that to me every time I hear them sing.

Please join all of us at the Orpheum when we say “Congratulations” to the participants in the 2018 High School Musical Theatre Awards! They are shining stars and we wish them all the best as they pursue their performing dreams into the future.

Thank you again for attending this evening.

Brett Batterson President & CEO Orpheum Theatre Group

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2018 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL THEATRE AWARDS

Managing Director......................................................Lindsay Krosnes Artistic Director...............................................................Taylor St. John Musical Director..........................................................Scott Sturtevant Choreographer.............................................................Matthew Keaton Assistant Choreographers......Cheyenne Johnson, Kylan Owens Stage Manager......................................................................Alex Kesner Assistant Stage Manager.............................................Brianna Amaba Band Director...............................................................Jason Eschhofen Musicians.........................................Jason Eschhofen, Larry Gooch, Tammy Holt, Corbin Miles, Pete Vescovo

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PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS Arlington High School......................................................................Footloose Bartlett High School................................................................................Tarzan Blytheville High School......................................................................The Wiz Briarcrest Christian School......................................The Addams Family Chester County High School..............................................................Grease Christian Brothers High School........................Little Shop of Horrors Collierville High School...........................................Catch Me If You Can Cordova High School...........................................Little Shop of Horrors Evangelical Christian School......................Thoroughly Modern Millie Germantown High School......................................................Sweeney Todd Harding Academy...........................................................The Little Mermaid Hernando High School.................................James and the Giant Peach Houston High School........................................................................Curtains Hutchison School......................................................Once On This Island Jackson Christian School......................................................Little Women Lausanne Collegiate School.................................................Legally Blonde Memphis University School....................................Little Shop of Horrors Northpoint Christian School...................................Beauty and the Beast Ridgeway High School..............You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Sacred Heart of Jesus High School...................................................Annie Southaven High School..................................................The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee St. Agnes Academy...................................................Once On This Island St. Benedict at Auburndale........................................................Big Fish St. George’s Independent School............................You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown St. Mary’s Episcopal School........................................Annie Get Your Gun Tipton-Rosemark Academy..................................................Guys and Dolls University School of Jackson......................................Singin’ in the Rain White Station High School................................................The Spitfire Grill Wynne High School..............................................................The Wizard of Oz

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OUTSTANDING SMALL ENSEMBLE sponsored by Pyramid Electric

Rusty, Urleen, & Wendy Jo, Footloose Arlington High School Dorothy, Tinman, Scarecrow, & Lion, The Wiz Blytheville High School The Urchins, Little Shop of Horrors Christian Brothers High School The Urchins, Little Shop of Horrors Cordova High School Peach Scarf Dancers, James and the Giant Peach Hernando High School The Urchins, Little Shop of Horrors Memphis University School The Gods, Once On This Island St. Agnes Academy

OUTSTANDING LARGE ENSEMBLE The Gorillas, Tarzan Bartlett High School The Trees and Stars, The Addams Family Briarcrest Christian School The Cast of Grease Chester County High School The Cast of Little Shop of Horrors Cordova High School The Delta Nu Girls, Legally Blonde Lausanne Collegiate School The Cast of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Ridgeway High School The Cast of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown St. George's Independent School

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OUTSTANDING CHORUS

sponsored by Karen Fields-Isaacman & Ken Isaacman The Addams Family Briarcrest Christian School Catch Me If You Can Collierville High School Sweeney Todd Germantown High School James and the Giant Peach Hernando High School Curtains Houston High School Annie Get Your Gun St. Mary's Episcopal School Singin' in the Rain University School of Jackson

OUTSTANDING STUDENT ORCHESTRA Catch Me If You Can Collierville High School Little Shop of Horrors Cordova High School The Little Mermaid Harding Academy Singin' in the Rain University School of Jackson The Spitfire Grill White Station High School

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OUTSTANDING DANCE EXECUTION The Addams Family Briarcrest Christian School Catch Me If You Can Collierville High School Thoroughly Modern Millie Evangelical Christian School Sweeney Todd Germantown High School James and the Giant Peach Hernando High School Curtains Houston High School Singin’ in the Rain University School of Jackson

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY Footloose Arlington High School Tarzan Bartlett High School Catch Me If You Can Collierville High School James and the Giant Peach Hernando High School Once On This Island Hutchison School Legally Blonde Lausanne Collegiate School Singin’ in the Rain University School of Jackson

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OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION MATERIALS sponsored by Paulsen Printing Footloose Arlington High School Little Shop of Horrors Christian Brothers High School Sweeney Todd Germantown High School Little Women Jackson Christian School Beauty and the Beast Northpoint Christian School Annie Get Your Gun St. Mary’s Episcopal School Guys and Dolls Tipton-Rosemark Academy

OUTSTANDING FRONT OF HOUSE sponsored by Friends Of The Orpheum (FOTO) Catch Me If You Can Collierville High School James and the Giant Peach Hernando High School Beauty and the Beast Northpoint Christian School Once On This Island St. Agnes Academy Annie Get Your Gun St. Mary’s Episcopal School Guys and Dolls Tipton-Rosemark Academy The Wizard of Oz Wynne High School

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OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC ELEMENT sponsored by The Crump Firm, Inc. The Derby Car, Grease Chester County High School The Projections, Catch Me If You Can Collierville High School The Plant, Little Shop of Horrors Memphis University School The Storm, Once On This Island St. Agnes Academy The Daffodils, Big Fish St. Benedict at Auburndale The Rain on Stage, Singin’ in the Rain University School of Jackson The Umbrella Poppies, The Wizard of Oz Wynne High School

OUTSTANDING HAIR & MAKEUP The Addams Family Briarcrest Christian School Thoroughly Modern Millie Evangelical Christian School Sweeney Todd Germantown High School James and the Giant Peach Hernando High School Curtains Houston High School Little Shop of Horrors Memphis University School Beauty and the Beast Northpoint Christian School

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OUTSTANDING COSTUMES sponsored by Kendra Scott

Thoroughly Modern Millie Evangelical Christian School Sweeney Todd Germantown High School James and the Giant Peach Hernando High School Curtains Houston High School Little Women Jackson Christian School Legally Blonde Lausanne Collegiate School The Wizard of Oz Wynne High School

OUTSTANDING MUSIC DIRECTION The Addams Family Briarcrest Christian School Catch Me If You Can Collierville High School Sweeney Todd Germantown High School Curtains Houston High School Annie Get Your Gun St. Mary’s Episcopal School Guys and Dolls Tipton-Rosemark Academy Singin’ in the Rain University School of Jackson

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OUTSTANDING LIGHTING sponsored by Dean HD Tarzan Bartlett High School Little Shop of Horrors Cordova High School Sweeney Todd Germantown High School Once On This Island Hutchison School Legally Blonde Lausanne Collegiate School Once On This Island St. Agnes Academy Big Fish St. Benedict at Auburndale

OUTSTANDING SET

sponsored by Veronica & Brett Batterson Footloose Arlington High School Tarzan Bartlett High School Catch Me If You Can Collierville High School Sweeney Todd Germantown High School Once On This Island Hutchison School Little Shop of Horrors Memphis University School The Wizard of Oz Wynne High School

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OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT Tarzan Bartlett High School Catch Me If You Can Collierville High School Thoroughly Modern Millie Evangelical Christian School Sweeney Todd Germantown High School Once On This Island Hutchison School Little Shop of Horrors Memphis University School Once On This Island St. Agnes Academy

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OUTSTANDING STUDENT CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT sponsored by Jennifer McGrath

Grace Korsmo Footloose Arlington High School

Meredith Drown Sweeney Todd Germantown High School

MaKenzie Lawson Catch Me If You Can Collierville High School

Matthew Russell Little Shop of Horrors Cordova High School

Amber Allen Sweeney Todd Germantown High School

Christian Powell Ceylan Metin Alexis Doan Sweeney Todd Legally Blonde Little Shop of Horrors Germantown High School Lausanne Collegiate School Memphis University School

OUTSTANDING STUDENT TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT sponsored by Memphis Audio

Andrew Boone Catch Me If You Can Collierville High School

Tyler Patterson The Little Mermaid Harding Academy

AJ Cocroft Sweeney Todd Germantown High School

Wolfgang Stoltz Sweeney Todd Germantown High School

Riane Bayne Alexander Goodwin Little Shop of Horrors Little Shop of Horrors Memphis University School Memphis University School

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OUTSTANDING STUDENT STAGE MANAGEMENT

Kaylyn Nichols Footloose Arlington High School

Allyson Vogel The Addams Family Briarcrest Christian School

Olivia Trippeer Once On This Island Hutchison School

Emily Roark Catch Me If You Can Collierville High School

Mikaila Smith Sweeney Todd Germantown High School

Matthew Strock Katherine Clark Little Shop of Horrors The 25th Annual Putnam Memphis University School County Spelling Bee Southaven High School

BRAVO AWARD

sponsored by Suzanne & William J. Landers This award recognizes the talent of students who had outstanding performances but are ineligible to compete for the Musical Theatre Awards because they are not yet in high school. Please join us in applauding the hard work and talent of these young stars.

Jaxon Polk The Addams Family Briarcrest Christian School

Chandler Donlin The Little Mermaid Harding Academy

Grayson Hart Little Women Jackson Christian School

David Gross Beauty and the Beast Northpoint Christian School

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SENIOR STAR COUNCIL STAR (Students Take A Role) Council acts as a student advisory board to the Orpheum Theatre Group. Members help to plan and coordinate events throughout the year, including Kids Night on Broadway, Saturday Series shows, and the High School Musical Theatre Awards. The STAR Council is open to high school students grades 9-12.

For more information, contact education@orpheum-memphis.com

Mykal Bayne Houston High School

Amelia Beckham Ethan Benson Logan Carson Evangelical Christian School Olive Branch High School Tipton-Rosemark Academy

Cooper Clack Collierville High School

Abi Crigler Houston High School

Lexi Dillard Tipton-Rosemark Academy

Cameron Donlin Harding Academy

Bailey Dumlao Houston High School

Aris Federman St. Benedict at Auburndale

Cannon Fisher Home Schooled

Emmy Futrell Wynne High School

Lydia Girard Bartlett High School

Destiny Hinton Lausanne Collegiate School

Corey Jeffries Ridgeway High School

Grace Korsmo Arlington High School

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Riley Paige Lara Hernando High School

Lauren Ledger Mary Nielson Clinton David Rhea St. Mary’s Episcopal School Evangelical Christian School Lausanne Collegiate School

JP Richey Central High School

Emily Roark Collierville High School

Shayna Ryan Collierville High School

Charmere Suggs Overton High School

Alan Michael Toney Germantown High School

Bradley Wallace Hernando High School

Josiah Walls Southaven High School

Rebecca Winchester St. Agnes Academy

Riley Young Hernando High School

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OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Caroline Morath Footloose Arlington High School

Cat Carlin Curtains Houston High School

Taylor Brown Once On This Island St. Agnes Academy

Lucy Callicott Sarah Kathryn Meek Legally Blonde Beauty and the Beast Lausanne Collegiate School Northpoint Christian School

Vivi Gray Julia Preston Annie Get Your Gun Annie Get Your Gun St. Mary’s Episcopal School St. Mary’s Episcopal School

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR

Simon Sutton Tarzan Bartlett High School

Jacob Mohler Zane Jones Sam Payne Thoroughly Modern Millie James and the Giant Peach Little Shop of Horrors Evangelical Christian School Hernando High School Memphis University School

Zach Crawford Hutch Dunavant Jake Booher Big Fish Guys and Dolls Singin’ in the Rain St. Benedict at Auburndale Tipton-Rosemark Academy University School of Jackson

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OUTSTANDING FEATURED DANCER

Rachel Henry Tarzan Bartlett High School

Juli Anna Stanford Curtains Houston High School

Kristin Stewart Savannah Demers Artie Pernsteiner The Addams Family James and the Giant Peach James and the Giant Peach Briarcrest Christian School Hernando High School Hernando High School

Emma Day Once On This Island Hutchison School

Olivia Taylor Annie Sacred Heart of Jesus High School

Bizzy Walker Annie Get Your Gun St. Mary’s Episcopal School

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS sponsored by Robin & Billy Orgel

Emma Stopher Catch Me If You Can Collierville High School

Alexis Montgomery Little Shop of Horrors Cordova High School

Suraya Buffong Once On This Island Hutchison School

Ruthie Burgess Thoroughly Modern Millie Evangelical Christian School

Jada Bunch Beauty and the Beast Northpoint Christian School

Bella Malone The Little Mermaid Harding Academy

Zaira Bautista You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown Ridgeway High School

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OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR

Christian Powell Sweeney Todd Germantown High School

Mason Clanin Ethan Leggett Colby Wilson Little Women Legally Blonde The 25th Annual Putnam Jackson Christian School Lausanne Collegiate School County Spelling Bee Southaven High School

Teryco Bolden Cooper Thorpe Big Fish Guys and Dolls St. Benedict at Auburndale Tipton-Rosemark Academy

Jalen Nickerson The Wizard of Oz Wynne High School

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2018 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL THEATRE AWARDS

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS sponsored by Cheryl & Bill Stegbauer

Peyton Tarver The Addams Family Briarcrest Christian School

Amelia Beckham Mackenzie Kuykendoll Claire Ballard Thoroughly Modern Millie Sweeney Todd James and the Giant Peach Evangelical Christian School Germantown High School Hernando High School

Maggie Nash Little Women Jackson Christian School

Gabriella Gonzalez Lauren Ledger Legally Blonde Annie Get Your Gun Lausanne Collegiate School St. Mary’s Episcopal School

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR sponsored by Winston Wolfe

Will Draper The Addams Family Briarcrest Christian School

Cooper Clack Catch Me If You Can Collierville High School

Rodney McKinner Riley Young Sweeney Todd James and the Giant Peach Germantown High School Hernando High School

Kaleb David Aris Federman Keaton Miller Legally Blonde Big Fish Singin’ in the Rain Lausanne Collegiate School St. Benedict at Auburndale University School of Jackson

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OUTSTANDING DIRECTION BY A TEACHER sponsored by Lura Elliott Turner — in honor of her mother, Helen Elliott, a music teacher

Chris Luter, Catch Me If You Can Collierville High School Rene Cave, Thoroughly Modern Millie Evangelical Christian School Ashleigh Williams, Sweeney Todd Germantown High School Lauren Suddoth, James and the Giant Peach Hernando High School Kell Christie, Curtains Houston High School Ted Fockler & Tim Greer, Little Shop of Horrors Memphis University School Jenny Madden, Annie Get Your Gun St. Mary’s Episcopal School

The Orpheum Theatre Group thanks

KENDRA SCOTT for their Gives Back Day supporting the HSMTAs!

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OUTSTANDING OVERALL PRODUCTION sponsored by Patty & George Alvord

Catch Me If You Can Collierville High School

Sweeney Todd Germantown High School

Thoroughly Modern Millie Evangelical Christian School

James and the Giant Peach Hernando High School

Legally Blonde Lausanne Collegiate School

Curtains Houston High School

Annie Get Your Gun St. Mary’s Episcopal School

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ARTISTIC STAFF BIOGRAPHIES Brianna Amaba (Assistant Stage Manager) is a psychology honors student at the University of Memphis. This will be her second year helping with the production of the HSMTA’s and her fourth time attending the awards. Her previous stage management experience includes Lucky Stiff and Weird Romance at Bolton High School, and She Kills Monsters, Spring Awakening, and Measure for Measure at the University of Memphis. She would like to thank her high school mentors, Karen Dean and Jeff White, as well as Taylor St. John and Alex Kesner, for motivating her and welcoming her into the wonderful world of theatre. She would also like to give a shout out to the high school stage managers and their technical crews who give their all and too often go unnoticed. Tonight is for you guys!!

Jason Eschhofen (Band Director) is a freelance music director, voice teacher, synth programmer, sound designer, orchestrator, and pianist in addition to teaching at the University of Memphis. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Music Recording Technology from Bowling Green State University before coming to the University of Memphis to get a Masters of Music in Vocal Performance. After graduating, he began to get involved with the Memphis theatre community as well as teaching voice, piano, and music theory at the University of Memphis. He has recently music directed shows at many theaters in the area including Violet; 42nd Street; Meet Me in St. Louis; A Christmas Story; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Junie B. Jones, the Musical; Big Fish; Joseph…

Dreamcoat; One Man, Two Guvnors; and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. As an actor/singer he has been seen locally in shows such as Beauty and the Beast (Le Fou), Meet Me in St. Louis (John Truitt), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Flute/ Thisby), and next to normal (Male Swing).

Matthew Keaton (Choreographer) is elated to help choreograph the Orpheum’s High School Musical Theatre Awards for a 3rd time. Matthew is a 2016 graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he earned his B.A. in Communications. He is also a proud alumnus of Houston High School. Matthew was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the 2012 Orpheum High School Musical Theatre Awards and has worked & performed with the Orpheum’s Education Department since 2011. He is also a performer at many Memphis area theatres. Matthew thanks his family and friends for their support, the Orpheum staff for everything, and God for His continuous grace and mercy.

Alex Kesner (Production Stage Manager) is a University of Memphis (2017) and Briarcrest Christian School (2013) graduate. She received her BFA in Theatre with an emphasis in Stage Management this spring. Alex started volunteering at the Orpheum as a Star Council member in 2012 and has since served as an intern in the Education Department, where she assistant stage managed the 2014, 2015 and 2016 High School Musical Theatre Awards. While in Memphis, Alex has stage managed many types of events including theatre, opera, awards shows, and dance concerts.

Regional credits include: ASM at Mason Street Warehouse, PSM at The Orpheum Memphis, ASM at Collage Dance Collective, PSM at Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music. Favorite University of Memphis credits include: Spring Awakening (PSM) Measure for Measure (PSM), Oklahoma! (PSM), next to normal (ASM). Alex joined the Weston Playhouse in Vermont as a Stage Management Intern served as the Assistant Stage Manager for the 2017-2018 season at the Riverside Playhouse in Vero Beach, Florida. www.AlexKesner.com Scott Sturtevant (Music Director) is a pianist, composer, arranger and orchestrator. His projects include accompanying soloists and vocal groups in the Memphis area, creating custom music arrangements, and composing original music. He also serves part-time as the Music Associate at Crossroads Baptist Church in Eads, TN, where he is the pianist and helps direct the choir. Scott has been the Musical Director for The Orpheum’s High School Musical Theatre Awards since 2010 and The Orpheum’s Broadway Boot Camp since 2012.

Taylor St. John (Director) is a theatre maker and educator currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Directing from The University of Memphis where he has directed productions of She Kills Monsters, Chronicles Simpkins, Bull, and The Rhodes Cycle: Abraham and Isaac for Rhodes College. Some favorite directing credits include: Elephant’s Graveyard (Voices of the South), the development and premieres of The Snake That Stole the Flower by Alli Jordan, Devoured By Tigers by Michael Ruth, and Hard Days Night by Vicki Vodrey (Kansas City Fringe Festival). As a teaching artist he has worked for the nationally recognized Coterie Theatre in Kansas City where he co-directed Project Pride (an LGBTQ teen performance troupe) and The Young Playwright’s Festival (an annual new play festival for youth playwrights). www. taylorstjohn.com

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JUDGES BIOGRAPHIES Jennifer Ammons is graduating with her MFA in Costume Design from the University of Memphis in May of 2018. Her designs for the University include: Servant of Two Masters; Nine; Measure for Measure; Empires of Eternal Void, and Bull. This past summer she worked for the Ohio Light Opera where she was an Associate Costume Designer for HMS Pinafore in addition to Assistant Costume Designer on The Lady of the Slipper and The Student Prince. In 2016, she was the assistant to Janice Benning Lacek on the U of M- TSC joint production of Henry V. Other Memphis area designs include Elephants Graveyard at Voices of the South; Pinkalicious for New Day Children’s Theatre and Marcus; and The Secret of Sweet at Hatiloo Theatre. Previously she was the resident costume designer and shop manager for Mars Hill University and Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre near Asheville, NC. Some designs from MHU and SART include: Flyin West; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; The Sunshine Boys; The Children’s Hour; and Sylvia.

Allen Austin began acting in plays when he was 13 at the DeSoto Family Theatre. He went on to study theatre at Ole Miss and Meisner technique at Playhouse West under the direction of Wolfgang Bodison in Los Angeles. In 2012, Saint Allen Austin won the Northwest MS Allie Award for his leading role in Driving Miss Daisy as Hoke Coleburn. In the summer of 2017, he was a mentor with the Orpheum’s Mending Hearts Camp. At 28, Saint Allen Austin now focuses his energy towards mentorship and entreprenership. He is the Artistic Director of the Electric Avenue Arts Academy, a performing arts organization designed to provide high-quality arts education and reinforce creativity among the youth of our communities.

Morgan Beckford has graced both operatic and musical theater stages, performing such roles as: Second Lady in The Magic Flute, Café Olay in Duke Ellington’s Queenie Pie, and Mrs. McLean in Susannah with the Butler Opera Center (Austin, TX). She has also sung in the ensembles for both Porgy and Bess with Austin’s Zach Scott Theater and Norton: A Civil War Opera with Loudoun Lyric Opera.

Since her return to Memphis, you might have seen her onstage with the Opera Memphis Chorus in The Marriage of Figaro and La Traviata, as Daniela in Hattiloo Theatre’s In the Heights, Abeyoye in CDL Production’s The Golden Fruit, in the choir at Germantown Presbyterian Church, or on the stage at the Germantown Performing Arts Center, Beethoven Club, or West Memphis Performing Arts Center. When Morgan is not onstage, she enjoys serving her roles as Coordinator of In-School Partnerships for the Memphis Music Initiative and Children’s Chorus Master for Opera Memphis.

Kim Britt is a scenic designer, and scenic artist who can occasionally be found dabbling in costume crafts. She has painted stages across the country, from Maine State Music Theatre to the Utah Shakespeare Festival. She has a M.F.A. in Scenic Design and Technology, with a secondary focus in Costumes.

Karen Shepard Canty’s love of theater began when she played Nancy in a middle school production of Oliver! at The College of William & Mary, Karen focused on lighting design and technical theater. After college she worked in various capacities for regional theaters before discovering a passion for stage management. Karen worked for theaters including Playwrights’ Horizons, CenterStage, Berkeley Rep, Long Wharf Theatre, New York City Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera. She retired from stage management in 2002. Karen, her husband Ned, and their two mutts, Stella & PJ, moved to Memphis in 2011 when Ned was hired as General Director of Opera Memphis. They have since adopted a third rescue dog named Shorty. She is excited to be joining the HSMTA judging team!

Danica Jenelle Horton holds an MS in Education in Interdisciplinary Arts from Nova Southeastern University and a BA in Theatre from UNC Greensboro. With more than ten years as a director and educator, she embraces inclusion and diversity in style, content and culture. She will return as a director and teaching artist for her third year this summer at Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Facility. Danica is a 2018 MFA Directing Candidate at the University of Memphis.

Curtis C. Jackson returned to Memphis in 2015 after living and working in Los Angeles for some years. Since being back, he has been in We Live Here, The Gospel at Colonus, All the Way, Memphis (nominated for an Ostrander-supporting actor in a musical) and Moon Vine at POTS. He filmed the movie Cut To The Chase. Jackson travelled a lot and lived in many different places doing a lot of different things that include: 3 Nat’l Tours and several theatres around the country: The American Theatre Project in New Orleans, Playhouse on the Square in Memphis; Troup America in Mpls; The St. Louis Black Rep; Marjorie Lyons Playhouse in Shreveport; NoHoArts Center, Pacific Resident Theatre, The Colony Theatre, The Getty Villa, Pasadena Playhouse, the Road Theatre Co..

Gary Marshall’s Falcon Theatre, International City Theatre, Los Angele; just to name a few. TV work includes Shameless, X-Files, Strong Medicine, and Gideon’s Crossing. Also several other independent films, features and shorts. Curtis is an acting coach/teacher, director (sometimes) and counselor.

He has made Memphis his base of operation as he goes out and do more theatre, movies and other stuff. Curtis has a BA and MFA in Theatre and many, many years of experience in all aspects of the Performing Arts.

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Claire D. Kolheim is excited to be returning as a judge for the Orpheum Theatre’s High School Musical Theatre Awards. She is truly humbled by the entire experience; by the performances she’s seen throughout this season from all the energetic and talented young adults, and designs from the crew; and unique direction from the directors!

She is a four-time Ostrander Award winner whose Memphis credits include: Celie (The Color Purple - Playhouse), Sarah (Ragtime - Playhouse), Gary Coleman (Avenue Q - Circuit), Deloris Van Cartier (Sister Act - Playhouse), Elizabeth (In The Next Room - Circuit), Lily St. Regis (Annie - Playhouse), Maddy Johnson (The Left Hand Swinging - Theatreworks), Rosie (MAMMA MIA! - Playhouse), Ann Atwater (Best of Enemies - Circuit), and Hattie (Kiss Me Kate - Playhouse). For more information about Claire, visit her website at www. cdkolheim.com Sandy Kozik received a B.F.A. in Theatre and Broadcast Journalism from University of Memphis and is a graduate of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Clown College. He toured for ten years with The Clyde Beatty–Cole Bros. Circus and in 2008 performed at the International Clown Festival in Shanghai. He has more than 25 years of experience as a teaching artist and arts administrator having worked with Memphis Arts Council’s old Center for Arts Education, Arts in the Park and Delta Arts utilizing the principles of Lincoln Center’s Aesthetic Education Institute and Wolf Trap Early Learning Through the Arts to help students, parents and teachers experience the power of the arts. He has performed with Playhouse on the Square, Theatre Memphis, Project: MOTION and Voices of the South. He freelances as a teaching artist, clown, and performer and is a board member at First Unitarian Church and Voices of the South. Sandy is the oldest Orpheum HSMTA judge (by years/not age) having served since 2008. He enjoys it most when he sees the arts transform people and communities. HSMTA and dedicated teachers, students, and families are doing it every year.

Bravo!

Dave Landis moved to Memphis twenty-seven years ago to join the Playhouse on the Square family after earning a BFA in Theatre from Drake University as well as an MFA in Acting from the University of Texas at Austin. As a longtime Resident Company member and Associate Director with Playhouse on the Square, Dave has directed and/or performed in well over 100 productions for both Playhouse on the Square and The Circuit Playhouse. Favorite performance credits include Horace Vandegelder in The Matchmaker; Roy in Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika; Charlie in August: Osage County; Fagin in Oliver!; Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof; Salieri in Amadeus; Elyot in Private Lives; George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; and Alfie in A Man of No Importance. Theatrical highlights for which he has donned his directing cap are

in no particular order… Priscilla, Queen of the Desert;The Bridges of Madison County; Sister Act; King Charles III; The Other Place; Tribes; Assassins; Sanders Family Christmas; Other Desert Cities; Deathtrap; Good People; Hot l Baltimore; Spring Awakening; In the Next Room; Hairspray (2010 and 2014); The Drowsy Chaperone; Into the Woods; Ragtime (2003 and 2011); Take Me Out; Love!

Valour! Compassion!; Caroline, or Change; The Wild Party; and Frozen. He most recently directed the current production of Fun Home at Playhouse on the Square which runs through May 27.

Elizabeth Perkins currently serves as the Director of Admission and Marketing at Westminster Academy, but started her career as the Production Stage Manager at Theatre Memphis. In the twenty years since, she has been involved in over 88 productions in Memphis, both on and off stage, including stage managing 30 of those. She currently serves on the Board of Directors at Theatre Memphis, as a judge for the High School Musical Theatre Awards, and as the Director for the Ostranders (the Memphis Theatre Awards for college, community, and professional theatre).

2017 HIGH SCHOOL FALL PRODUCTION BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY

2018 HIGH SCHOOL WINTER MUSICAL THE ADDAMS FAMILY

A Standing Ovation

for the Briarcrest Theatre Department on their 2018 Orpheum High School Theatre Awards Nominations The Addams Family Nominations Outstanding Large Ensemble

Outstanding Chorus

Outstanding Music Direction Tammy Holt

Outstanding Dance Execution Kathy Thiele

Outstanding Hair and Makeup Angel Neal

Outstanding Student Stage Management Allyson Vogel

Bravo Award Jaxon Polk

Outstanding Featured Dancer Kristin Stewart

Outstanding Lead Actress Peyton Tarver as Alice Beineke

Outstanding Lead Actor Will Draper as Gomez Addams

2018 MIDDLE SCHOOL SPRING MUSICAL ALL SHOOK UP

2017 ELEMENTARY FALL MUSICAL MADAGASCAR JR.

ECS Thoroughly Modern Millie company on

9 nominations!

2018 Orpheum High School Musical Theatre Awards www.ecseagles.com

Congratulations to our theatre students on their four nominations for Disney’s The Little Mermaid

Outstanding Student Orchestra Outstanding Featured Actress Bella Malone The Bravo Award Chandler Donlin Outstanding Student Technical Achievement Tyler Patterson

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A giant peachy congratulations to the cast of

JAMES & THE GIANT PEACH

on their 13 HSMTA Nominations!

Houston High School congratulates the cast and crew of CURTAINS on their 9 HSMTA nominations!

Congratulations to the

St. Agnes Academy Cast and Crew of

Once On This Island

• NOMINATED FOR • Outstanding Supporting Actress - Taylor Brown Outstanding Technical Achievement Outstanding Lighting Outstanding Artistic Element (The Storm) Best Front of House Best Small Ensemble (The Gods)

ST. AGNES ACADEMY PK2-12

ST. DOMINIC SCHOOL PK2-8

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CAST & CREW OF Lausanne Collegiate School’s “Legally Blonde”

NOMINATED FOR 10 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL THEATRE AWARDS! •

Outstanding Large Ensemble The Delta Nu Girls

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Outstanding Featured Actor Ethan Leggett ‘19 as Kyle

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Outstanding Choreography

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Outstanding Costumes

Outstanding Lead Actress Gabriella Gonzalez ‘18 as Elle Woods

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Outstanding Lighting

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Outstanding Student Creative Achievement Award Ceylan Metin ‘18

Outstanding Lead Actor Kaleb Davis ‘18 as Emmett

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Outstanding Overall Production

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Outstanding Supporting Actress Lucy Calicott ‘18 as Paulette

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Congratulations to the Memphis University School cast and crew of

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS ~ 11 Nominations ~

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown!

Nominated for “Outstanding Large Ensemble" Orpheum High School Musical Theatre Awards

St. George’s Independent School congratulates the cast and crew!

ARTISTIC. CREATIVE. EXCEPTIONAL. SHE’S ST. MARY’S.

Congratulations!

10 Nominations for Annie Get Your Gun: • Best

Chorus Production Material • Best Front of House • Best Music Direction, Julie Millen • Best Supporting Actress, Julia Preston • Best

• Best

Supporting Actress, Vivi Gray Lead Actress, Lauren Ledger • Best Featured Dance, Bizzy Walker • Best Direction, Jenny Madden • Outstanding Overall Production • Best

St. Mary’s salutes all the nominees in the 2018 Orpheum High School Musical Theatre Awards!

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Tipton-Rosemark Academy

Congratulations to TRA on their HSMTA nominations!

Outstanding Production Materials Outstanding Front of House Outstanding Music Direction: Lalania Vaughn Outstanding Featured Actor: Cooper Thorpe Outstanding Supporting Actor: Hutch Dunavant

2018 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL THEATRE AWARDS

OPENING & CLOSING NUMBER PERFORMERS Ashlee Allison Laura Beth Baker Marian Barber Mackenzie Barbour Andrew Barczak Sarah Barlow Abbie Bayless Katie Bennett Maia Bennett Allison Benoit Brittney Berryman Paige Bowden Ava Joy Bray Hayden Brown Alonnie Butler Jordan Cardell Jamaia Chase Benjamin Cheng Marrissa Cherry Luca Conti Sarah Cornelison Chloe Crowder Luke Dabney Ethan Doyle Gracie Easley Summer Edwards Maggie Emmendorfer Jordan Ennis Trentity Epps Gabrielle Evans Alex Ewing Snowden Farnsworth Dawson Feathers Cade Forbes Ellie Kate Forrester Milagro Garnica Meghan Gilbreath Charlie Groves Kennedy Hall

Kharice Hawkins Maddie Hixson Ily Jeanniton Tyler Kirk Summer Knowles Jared Koerner Ireland Little Graham Lindsey Asha Love Marc Anthony Marconi Madison Maroney Orlandus Mason Savannah McKinney Smith McWaters Sarah Jane Mednikow Milla Meiman Andrea Mercado Amari Miller Gilana Moody Josh Overton Rae Payne Ben Phillips Kourtney Pryor Tara Sandlin Maddie Stewart Lauren Stubbs Sydnei Sutton Kinsey Teeter Jaylen Thomas Faith Tidwell Josiah Walls Jacob Watson Emma Waycaster Carly White Mallie Wilbanks Olivia Wiles Ashton Williams Ty Williams Ben Woodard

2018 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL THEATRE AWARDS

PRODUCTION TEAM Vice President of Education......................................................................Jennifer McGrath Director of Education......................................................................................Lindsay Krosnes Education & Production Managers..........................................Brittany Cooper-d'Orsay, Jennifer Douberly Technical Director..................................................................................James "Revo" Reeves Lighting Designer..........................................................................................John "Jeo" Owens Sound Engineers................................................................................................Memphis Audio Program Designer.................................................................................................Nathan Ashby Content Producer.................................................................................................Zack Orsborn Backstage Coordinator..........................................................................................Tyler Vernon Lead Liaison...........................................................................................................Kyle Van Frank Supporting & Featured Liaison.........................................................................Parker Chase Voiceover Artist........................................................................................................Jamie Boller Sponsor Reception...........................................................Leanne McQuown, Shasta Blue, Shelby Davis, Charlene Honeycutt, Brittany Church Lead Actor & Actress Panel.......................................................Sandy Kozik, Dave Landis, Holly Lau, Jazmin Miller, Tracy Thomas Student Technical Awards Panel................Kim Britt, Elizabeth Perkins, Jo Sandburg Interns..........................................................................................Raneem Imam, Jenny Wilson

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