Last night, the Golden Globes celebrated accomplishments in film and television. But the previous night, a local red carpet was full of theater performers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The sixth annual Prime Stage High School Drama Awards, held at Hillman Center for the Performing Arts in Fox Chapel, honored the hard work and creativity of theater kids in non-musical plays produced at 12 local high schools. Nearly 500 students, teachers and family members gathered to celebrate these Pittsburgh-area student actors, directors and production crew members.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe High School Drama Awards is our way of looking to the future,\u201d said Dr. Wayne Brinda, PrimeStage Theatre\u2019s producing artistic director. \u201cBy encouraging these young actors and production specialists in their early efforts, we\u2019re building a strong foundation for Pittsburgh theatre in years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
Avonworth High School won Best Overall Production for \u201cMoon Over Buffalo,\u201d and two actors from that show won top awards (Paxon Masters as George Hay for Best Actor and Adalyn Burgoyne as Rosalind Hay for Best Supporting Actress).<\/p>\n
The Best Actress award went to Elise Duckworth of Pine-Richland High School for the role of Christy Martin in \u201cThe Election.\u201d And Best Supporting Actor was awarded to Isaac Jones as Boris Kolenkov in Our Lady of the Sacred Heart\u2019s production of \u201cYou Can\u2019t Take It With You.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the award presentations, student ensembles performed short scenes from their nominated shows. Pittsburgh actor and playwright Matt Henderson served as master of ceremonies.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat makes these awards unique,\u201d says Drama Awards director and Prime Stage Theatre board member John Dolphin, \u201cis that to be eligible, the students must be in a backstage leadership role or an onstage performance role. We encourage adult mentorship and assistance, but in the end, these productions are student-run.\u201d<\/p>\n
The full list of winners includes:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Best Actor: Paxon Masters as George Hay in \u201cMoon Over Buffalo\u201d at Avonworth High School
Best Actress: Elise Duckworth as Christy Martin in \u201cThe Election\u201d at Pine-Richland High School
Best Supporting Actor: Isaac Jones as Boris Kolenkov in \u201cYou Can\u2019t Take It With You\u201d at\u00a0 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School
Best Supporting Actress: Adalyn Burgoyne as Rosalind Hay in \u201cMoon Over Buffalo\u201d at Avonworth High School
Best Student Director: Marin Reinhardt for \u201cYou Can\u2019t Take It With You\u201d at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School
Best Student Stage Manager: Abigail Robinson for \u201cYou Can\u2019t Take It With You\u201d at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School
Best Student Scenic Design: Jude Leddy for \u201cYou Can\u2019t Take It With You\u201d at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School
Best Student Lighting Design: Shayne Parks for \u201cElephant Man\u201d at Deer Lakes High School
Best Student Sound Design: Liana DeLisio for \u201cThe Election\u201d at Pine-Richland High School
Best Student Costume Design: Lillian McCall for \u201cThe Witch\u2019s Princess\u201d at Springdale Jr.\/Sr. High School
Best Student Makeup Design: Abby Haas & Molly Krajcovic for \u201cOur Town\u201d at Fox Chapel Area High School
Best Student Prop Design: Rachel Brito & Kahler Salva for \u201cThe Election\u201d at Pine-Richland High School
Best Use of Creative Technical Effects: Tyler Debski for \u201cThe Play That Goes Wrong\u201d at Chartiers Valley High School
Best Student Onstage Run Crew: Alexander Bi, Sam Davidheiser & Makayla Miller for \u201cBig Love\u201d at Shady Side Academy Senior School
Best Student Program\/Poster Design: Abby Horn, Josie Lang & Mary-Kate Stock for \u201cThe Neverland Project\u201d at Baldwin High School
Best Overall Production: Avonworth High School for \u201cMoon Over Buffalo\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Photo courtesy of Prime Stage Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night, the Golden Globes celebrated accomplishments in film and television. But the previous night, a local red…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,16662],"class_list":["post-84956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-prime-stage-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}