WV Counties in Thespian Areas: Area I Counties:  Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio, Tyler and Wetzel Area II Counties:  Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt and Wood Area III Counties:  Barbour, Doddridge, Harrison, Lewis, Marion, Monongalia, Pendleton, Upshur, Preston, Randolph, Taylor and Tucker

Area IV Counties:  Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and Morgan Area V Counties: Fayette, Greenbrier, Summers, McDowell, Mercer, Monroe, Nicholas, Pocahontas Raleigh, Webster and Wyoming Area VI  Counties:  Boone, Cabell, Clay, Kanawha, Mingo, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam, Wayne and Logan Click HERE to contact your Area Representative

Each year, the WV Thespians organize six Area Festivals and one WV State Festival to give the high school students of WV a unique and quality theatrical experience.      The Area Festivals take one day.  At these festivals, the different schools within the area compete in the effort to take their one-act plays and tech projects onto the State Festival.  To be selected to perform at the State Festival is a great honor!  Elections are also held to select the State Student Board Members for the next year.      The WV State Thespian Festival is a three day event that is held every other year at the WV Cultural Center in Charleston, WV.  The state festivals on the "off years" (on odd numbered years) are held either at WVU in Morgantown or at Marshall University in Huntington.      The One-Act Play Festival is the main event at the State Festival.  12 to 16 schools from accross the state come to perform their outstanding plays for an audence that includes friends, teachers, talent scouts and theatre enthusiats from across the state.  Talent scouts from WV colleges and universities also come to watch. For the full rules of the One-Act Play Festival, download a copy of the WV State Thespian Handbook HERE. (member schools only)

Upcoming 2010 Area  Festival Dates:     AREA 1: Feb. 27 @ Magnolia High School; Host: Eileen Miller AREA 2: Feb. 20th @ Parkersburg South; Host: Jayne Whitlow AREA 3: March 6th @ Fairmont Senior High School; Host: Linda Pinnell AREA 4: Feb. 20th @ Washington High School; Host: Martha Louden AREA 5: Date: TBA @ Tamarack; Host: Benny Mills AREA 6: March 6th @ Capital High School; Host: Hannah Toney

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