Arts & Entertainment
Students from 6 Loudoun High Schools Nominated for Cappies
Schools in Ashburn and Leesburg will vie for some of the 21 awards for which county students were nominated.
Loudoun County students from six high schools have received 21 nominations for Cappies Awards related to their work in plays at their schools.
The Cappies are presented to students in the region who excel in various aspects of play productions, from singing, dancing and acting to critiquing, marking, lighting and costume to design, just to name a few.
The 14th annual Cappies Gala begins at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 9, in the 2400-seat Concert Hall at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Loudoun’s schools will compete against 50 other high schools from Northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC.
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Loudoun Valley High School earned the most nominations with eight, followed by Stone Bridge with five nominations. Here's the list of Loudoun student nominated:
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Alie Campbell
Urinetown
Loudoun Valley High School
Make-up
Alyssa Howell, Elizabeth Morton, Aliya Quershi, Sarah Reed
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Stone Bridge High School
Special Effects and or Technology
Christian Bonilla, Cody Byrd, Brendan Connery, Erik Dulik, et al.
Little Shop of Horrors
Dominion HS
Stage Crew
Laura Brick, Luke O'Brien, Maeven Luedke, Roxanne Schoen
Urinetown
Loudoun Valley High School
Choreography
Katheryne Dean, Meena Knowles, Corinne Maclean, Morgan Taylor
Fame
Freedom High School
Choreography
Giselle Tirado & Bella Tenaglia
West Side Story
Heritage High School
Creativity
Adam Weiss, composer
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Stone Bridge High School
Ensemble in a Play
Evil Army
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Stone Bridge High School
Ensemble in a Musical
The Poor
Urinetown
Loudoun Valley High School
Female Dancer
Giselle Tirado
West Side Story
Heritage High School
Female Vocalist
Shelly Walsh
Fame
Freedom High School
Male Vocalist
Brandon Diaz
Live it Up
Briar Woods High School
Comic Actress in a Play
Sierra Carlson
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Stone Bridge High School
Comic Actor in a Play
Chris Sanderson
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Stone Bridge High School
Comic Actress in a Musical
Alie Campbell
Urinetown
Loudoun Valley High School
Comic Actor in a Musical
Jackson Lessler
Urinetown
Loudoun Valley High School
Supporting Actress in a Musical
Alex Poirier
Urinetown
Loudoun Valley High School
Supporting Actor in a Musical
Joao Versos
Little Shop of Horrors
Dominion HS
Song
Officer Krupke
West Side Story
Heritage High School
Song
Run Freedom Run
Urinetown
Loudoun Valley High School
Musical
Urinetown
Urinetown
Loudoun Valley High School
Nominated casts will perform musical numbers and sketches from the plays.
Throughout the year, the Cappies program is driven by more than 380 area high school theater student critics who attend each other’s shows, write reviews for newspapers and TV, and serve as “Cappies” awards judges. During the past 14 years, more than 2,000 student-written Cappies reviews have been published by The Washington Post, ShowBizRadio.com and more than a dozen other area newspapers in both hard copy and online.
Tickets to the gala are only available only through Cappies high school theater departments.
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