Maplewood Richmond Heights senior, Ben Speed, won first place in the monologue competition at Thescon — the Missouri State Thespian conference — in Kansas City last weekend.
Speed received perfect scores from all judges, he reported on Facebook. He performed monologues from Shakespeare and the play, Death of a Salesman. Speed will compete again in June for nationals.
Steven Tronicek, junior, also competed, and was rated superior, MRH reported.
See Speed’s winning monologues on YouTube:
Awesome Ben!!
Ben is very charismatic and so talented. Congratulations.
Wow! Fabulous!!