Maplewood Richmond Heights theater students brought home 11 Cappie Awards this week at the year-end ceremony at Lindenwood University, including Best Play, for The Diary of Anne Frank. The Cappies is a nationwide program to bring more positive attention to the creative efforts of teenagers.
The MRH thespians won awards for:
- Marketing and publicity — Travaion Howard and Zariah Jones — The Diary of Anne Frank
- Hair and makeup — Tamar Krump and Klaude Utter — The Diary of Anne Frank
- Props — Props Crew — The Diary of Anne Frank
- Set — Set Crew — The Diary of Anne Frank
- Creativity — Brittany Moseley, Student Director — The Diary of Anne Frank
- Featured Actor — David O’Keefe — Arsenic and Old Lace
- Comic actor in a play — Danny Findley — Arsenic and Old Lace
- Supporting actress in a play — Brittany Moseley — Arsenic and Old Lace
- Supporting actor in a play — Ben Speed — Arsenic and Old Lace
- Lead actor in a play — Angelo DiLorenzo — The Diary of Anne Frank
- Best Play — The Diary of Anne Frank
Our theatre dept. cleaned up the awards (11 of them) at the Cappies Awards last night. Here's a few… pic.twitter.com/O74oVlstEt
— MRH High School (@mrhhighschool) May 16, 2016
Congratulations! MRH has such an extraordinary theatre program and Mrs. Pothoff is AWESOME! She is amazing and her classes really bring the students together. Productions are always packed! Pothoff is loved by students and parents!
BRAVO!!!
Congratulation! I am so proud and very sorry to have missed the performances, any changes for a repeat?
My old mentor, Coral Dubry would be SO proud of you all. And so am I! http://bit.ly/1W6gqpo
Congratulations to the best secondary theatre program in St. Louis! Most people don’t know what incredible time and talent it takes to build a program like this, especially in a smaller school where teachers compete for talented kids, and resources are limited. Theatre is an essential part of the curriculum, and many schools have cut back or eliminated these programs in favor of funding for raising test scores. The MRH school community is the exception. Long may theatre be essential here!
Congratulations Thespians! We really enjoyed having you do a scene at The Book House last year. You have a lot of talent!