Advanced Theater class earns superior rating

TRISTAN MILLER staff writer

Recently, the Wayne County One Act Play Festival took place at Waynedale High School, where seven schools from around Wayne county performed.

Waynedale has hosted this event for more than 40 years, which includes groups from each of the high schools who perform a theater piece of their choice for the audience at the event.

yet,” Furlong said. Going forward, Furlong will be the Operations Manager at Tri-County Computer Services Association (TCCSA). “This is the agency that provides Internet, phones and software, like ProgressBook, to schools in Ashland, Wayne and Holmes County,” Furlong said.

According to Gabe Tudor, Superintendent of Wooster City Schools, “Mrs. Furlong is an outstanding leader and an even better person. We will miss her dearly, but are thankful for how well she has led her department and that we will still be able to work with her in her new role at TCCSA,” Tudor said.

This year, the group of students from WHS, students from Kristin Broda’s Advanced Theater class, performed 10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse, which is a comedy piece about surviving zombies, as the name suggests.

The group received the highest rating possible, a superior rating, for their act.

Wooster actor and Drama Club President, Caleb Singer-Holden (12), was also named to the All County Cast for the second year in a row for his acting in this piece.

In looking at this experience, Singer-Holden, notes that in the two years that he has been able to compete at this festival, he sees it as a beneficial experience.

“It is a great opportunity for students to watch people just like them perform. It is not often that we get to see other teenagers perform, especially teens who like to perform the same things that we like to do,” Singer-Holden said. This festival is a non-competitive place for young actors to perform and show their talents. Dalton Drama Club director Robin EvansDelCiappo stated, in an article for Dalton Kidron news on Jan 22, “The students take away how all aspects of their work, from crew work to acting techniques, will be analyzed and evaluated by adjudicators.”The festival uses judges to rate each piece performed and rates actors’ talents.

This year multiple notable individuals adjudicated, including Brian Chandler, who is an associate professor of theater arts at the University of Akron. While there is no named winner of the One Act play festival each team still receives an individual score.

The Wayne County One Act Play Festival showed off the talents of actors from schools all around Wayne County on Jan. 24 and finished another year of this annual tradition.