Heritage Students Among Cappies Winners

Students from Heritage High School were among the winners at the 14th annual Cappies Gala earlier this month at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. More than 2,300 students, teachers, families and friends attended the ceremony, which awarded performers, critics and tech crews from 56 high schools in Northern Virginia, Maryland and DC.

Nominees presented musical numbers and scenes from their plays; those who missed the event can watch for the entire show to be aired on Cox Cable “Red Apple” Channel 21 beginning in July and continuing throughout the summer [Editor’s note: A press release about the awards did not include cable companies in Loudoun County].

Hundreds of area student high school theater critics attend each others’ shows each year, write reviews for newspapers and TV, and serve as Cappies awards judges. During the past 13 years, more than 2,000 student-written Cappies reviews have been published by more than a dozen area media outliets.

In May, 300 student critics voted for Cappie awards, through a digital, student-designed voting process.

Winners from Loudoun:

• Comic Actress/Make-Up and Actor in a Musical - Alie Campbell and Jackson Lessler, Loudoun Valley High School's Urinetown 
• Stage Crew - Laura Brick, Luke O'Brien and Maeven Luedke (not pictured Roxanne Schoen), Loudoun Valley High School's Urinetown 
• Choreography - Giselle Tirado and Bella Tenaglia, Heritage High School's West Side Story
• Ensemble in a Musical - Molly Magoffin, Jennifer O'Neill, C.J. Thomas, Charlie Collins, "The Poor", Loudoun Valley High School's Urinetown