Paticipating WV Schools

Over 400 participants from 21 WV schools
Bluefield High School
Capital High School
Fairmont Senior High School
Hundred High School
Huntington High School
Jefferson High School
J.D. Rockafeller Career Center
Magnolia High School
Martinsburg High School
Meadow Bridge High School
Morgantown High School
Musselman High School
New Martinsville Middle School
Northern Hancock Gifted
Oak Glen High School
Parkersburg South High School
Parkersburg High School
Ritchie County High School
Spring Valley High School
Webster County High School
Wyoming East High School

Scholarship Winners:
David Sindledecker Memorial Scholarship – Elizabeth Huff
WV Thespian Scholarship – Gabrielle Tokach

Outstanding Scenes
Monty Python & The Holy Grail – Jefferson High School
Go Look – Northern Hancock Gifted
Orphan Train – Morgantown High School
Godspell – Martinsburg High School
I Never Saw Another Butterfly – Huntington High School
The Rainmaker – Musselman High School
 

Tech Awards
(1st & 2nd Place award winners are listed under each catagorey)

Costumes

• Design w/Renderings – Ashley Phillips & Kirstin Pate from Capital High School
• Costume Construction – Sasha Goins from Meadow Bridge High School & Eliza Huff from Jefferson High School
• Costume Construction from Actual Production – Eliza Huff & Anya Leach from Jefferson High School

Extraordinary Projects

• Victor Yost from Hundred High School
• Colleen Shulz from Jefferson High School

Lighting Designs

• Novice – DJ Jewel from Capital High School
• Advanced – Maya Clark from Capital High School

Make-up Designs

• Character – Danielle Davis from Capital High School & Deborah Burwell from Jefferson High School
• Fantasy – Maya Clark from Capital High School & Nickie Ambrozak from Fairmont Senior High
• Special Effects – Victoria Adkins from Capital High School & Whitney Roy from Jefferson High School

Mask Designs

• Novice – Caitlin Louden from Jefferson High School & Megan Barker from Capital High School
• Advanced – Danielle Davis & Stepanie Blizzard from Capital High School

Playwriting

• Novice - STREETLIGHTS by Amber Kennedy from Hundred High School & WITHHELD by Emily Patterson from Magnolia High School
• Adavanced – AN APPLE A DAY by Andrew Orsie from Jefferson High School & GOD’S PLATIPUS by Nick Oliveto from Fairmont Senior High School
• Outstanding Advanced Playwriting Scripts – JACK'S DREAM by Jessica Kawalek from Musselman High School & ANTE by Kelsey Thompson from Oak Glen High School.

Puppetry

• Hand – Maria Fioranvante from Capital High School & Joshuah Childers from Spring Valley High School
• Marionettes – Stephanie Blizzard from Capital High School& Caitlin Louden from Jefferson High School
• Experimental – Amy Tatina from Jefferson High School & Jonah Miller from Capital High School
• Puppet Theatre Element – Tell Greathouse from Magnolia High School

Publicity

• Novice – Jennifer Nail & Thomas Daniel Petterson from Capital High School
• Advanced – Danielle Gentry from Jefferson High School & Taylor Henthorn from Magnolia High School

Prop Designs

• Hand – Jonathan Irvin from Meadow Bridge High School & Jared Wright from Magnolia High School
• Stage – Morgan Morgan & Liz Pavlisin from Magnolia High School
• Prop from Actual Production – Maya Clark and Dylan Adkins from Capital High School

Tech Rodeo
1st – Magnolia High School
2nd – Northern Hancock Gifted
3rd – Musselman High School

Outstanding Technical Theatre Student
1st – May Clark from Capital High School
2nd – Eliza Huff from Jefferson High School
3rd – Caitlin Louden from Jefferson High School

Outstanding Technical Theatre School
1st – Capital High School
2nd – Jefferson High School
3rd – Magnolia High School

2008-2009 State Student Board
Aaron Pilkington from Fairmont Senior High School
Lakyn Arrick from Magnolia High School
Asia Casey from Musselman High School
Richie Oliver from Oak Glen High School
Danielle Smith from Jefferson High School
Jessica Kawalek from Musselman High School
Tyler Stovall from Oak Glen High School

All Festival Cast

• Alura Radcliff & Corey Keller from Northern Hancock Gifted’s THE ACTOR’S NIGHTMARE
• Asia Casey from Musselman High School’s THE CRUCIBLE
• Rikki knotts & Amanda Boise from Parkersburg South High School’s A DOLL’S HOUSE IS A METAPHOR
• Corey Warner & Justin Mason from Bluefield High School’s SHUBERT’S LAST STAND
• Garrett Robinson, Carly Fox & Automn Moore from Magnolia High School’s ARTISTIC INSPIRATION
• Theresa Horton, Tyler Johnson & Matt Mullins from Capital High School’s THE KATRINA PROJECT:  HELL & HIGH WATER
• Thomas Bland, Kayla Winfrey & Brooke Jackson from Wyoming East High School’s DOG LADY
• Kendall Ebby & Joseph Skousen from Morgantown High School’s THE ORPHAN TRAIN
• Caitlin Hudkins, daniel Cutlip & Jonathan Paugh from Webster County High School’s LAW & ORDER: FAIRY TALE UNIT
• Dani Gentry, Hillary Crum, Lizz Ricketts, Whitney Roy, Eliza Huff & Olivia Lloyd from Jefferson High School’s THE INSANITY OF MARY GIRARD
• Tyler Stovall from Oak Glen High School’s HAIKU
• Laura Benson & Josephine Landgrove from Huntington High School’s I NEVER SAW ANOTHER BUTTERFLY
  
  Outstanding Stage Manger
  1st – Tina Kober from Jefferson High School
  2nd – Robert Hughes from Capital High School
   

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