SPS thespians advance to state and national competitions

Posted by Kevin Dudley on 1/24/2024

Theater students

More than 300 thespians from 11 regional schools descended on Lewis & Clark High School on Jan. 13 for the Washington State East Regional Thespy ™ event. Students from Lewis & Clark, Ferris, North Central and Rogers high schools qualified for the state and national competitions.

Students performed and presented in front of a team of trained theatre arts adjudicators who scored students based on rubrics designed for performance and technical theatre categories.

The performance category included duet musicals, a duet scene, a group musical, monologues, musical theatre and solo musical.

The technical category included costume, costume design, lighting design, playwriting, props design, scenic design, short film, stage management, theatre marketing, and makeup design.Costume design

Ninety-two SPS students qualified for the state competition in the performance category, and 17 stagecraft students qualified in the technical category.

Forty-four students qualified for the national competition in the performance category and 16 qualified in the technical category.

Find the names of all state and national qualifiers here.

Congrats to our talented performers and stagecraft students!

Find more photos courtesy of Richard Maguire here.