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AHS Theatre’s Shakespeare Sweep

The Arcadia High School Theatre Department has broken another all-time record  – this time taking Second Place in the overall sweepstakes award at the Shakespeare Festival in Reseda April 21.


L-r: Costume Design Third Place trophy winners Roxaanne DeMent, Moranda Columbo, Kayla Zook, Rayna White Snow, and director Steven Volpe with Sweepstakes Award


More than 2,000 students from 60 schools competed in eight categories, according to Bill Garrett, President of the Drama Teachers Association of California.

AHS made the Finals in six categories and the Semi-Finals in the other two categories, said Arcadia High School Theatre Department director Steven Volpe. “I am very proud of all of our theatre students who worked so hard for the last two months preparing for the Shakespeare Festival<” Vople said. “We have never had every single category make it to the Semi-Finals in the DTASC Shakespeare Festival in the history of our school.”

All of these performances will be performed in the round at the Arcadia High School Little Theatre at 7 p.m. Friday, May 4. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased online at www.arcadiastage.com. The performance is likely to sell out but any unsold seat tickets will be available for purchase at the theatre on the night of the performance.

Here is a summary of the categories and the awards:

Shakespeare Festival Categories

  1. Technical Category Set Lights and Graphics – First Place and Costume Design – Third Place

  2. Audition Monologue – Honorable Mention

  3. Small Group Comedy – Second Place

  4. Small Group Drama – Semi Final

  5. Shakespeare’s Kings – Second place

  6. Parody – Fifth place

  7. Large Group Drama – Semi Final

  8. Large Group Comedy – Honorable Mention

Students credits in each category:

Technical Category – Set Lights and Graphics – First Place

  1. Shana Mofarrah

  2. Karly Kostelac

  3. Nicola Coralic

  4. Jessica Pineda

  5. Andrew Platt

Technical Category – Costume Design – Third Place

  1. Roxanne De Ment

  2. Moranda Colombo

  3. Kayla Zook

  4. Rayna White Snow

Audition Monologues

  1. Jasmine Falatoonzadeh – Honorable Mention

  2. Nicki Richcreek

Small Group Comedy “Twelfth Night” – Second Place

  1. Ariana Raygoza

  2. Sommer Zetter

  3. David Liu

  4. Skylar Mushisky

Small Group Drama – Semi Final

  1. Luke Karsana

  2. Amanda Salinas

  3. Cassie Nickles

  4. Jessica Bohon

Shakespeare Kings “Richard III” – Second place

  1. Shirish Sarkar

  2. Janessa Floyd

Parody: “Macbeth” – Fifth Place

  1. Alex Garcia

  2. Kristina Price

  3. Gabriela Munoz-Case

  4. Hanna Tannous

  5. Paul Nestor

  6. Liam Swan

  7. Keith Harmel

  8. Anthony Nappier

Large Group Drama: Hamlet – Semi Final

  1. Gabriel Rousset

  2. Gwen Vahey

  3. Dana Jones

  4. Patrick Harbicht

  5. Ryan Campbell

  6. Gordon Chang

Large Group Comedy “Twelfth Night” – Honorable Mention

  1. Shelby Dreves

  2. Chloe Conrad

  3. Nick Munoz

  4. Craig Capps

  5. Stephanie Chung-Lara

  6. Tintin Nguyen

— By Scott Hettrick

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