Coral Springs High School Drama Takes Home 7 Cappies

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By Sharon Aron Baron

On Tuesday evening, Broward Center for the Performing Arts held the 21st annual Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies, celebrating outstanding achievement in high school theater. 

Nominees from 21 schools in Broward and Palm Beach competed for the awards in 47 categories, recognizing performers, designers, technicians, publicists, and critics. Modeled after Broadway’s Tony Awards, the Cappies Awards featured songs and scenes from the top-nominated shows.

Coral Springs High School’s production of In the Heights took home seven Cappies for props, lighting, sets, vocalist in a male role, lead actor in a female role in a musical, song, and musical.

Although in the lead for the most nominations at 21, Marjory Stoneman Douglas won in two categories, including creativity and lead actor in a male role in a musical.

J.P. Taravella won Featured Actor in a Female Role in a Play for its production of Radium Girls.

Cappies Winners Are:

Choreography

Essence Fowler and Trey-lon Salley

Carrie the Musical

Dillard Center for the Arts

Comic Actor in a Female Role in a Musical

Isabella Leon

Cinderella

Calvary Christian Academy

Comic Actor in a Female Role in a Play

Isabella Ruiz

The Game’s Afoot

Archbishop McCarthy High School

Comic Actor in a Male Role in a Musical

Isaac Lynne

Catch Me if You Can

West Boca Raton High

Comic Actor in a Male Role in a Play

Ryan Culen

The Game’s Afoot

Archbishop McCarthy High School

Costumes in a Musical

Tyler Hess, Nicole Scalise

Catch Me if You Can

West Boca Raton High

Costumes in a Play

Julia Mosher, Amaiah Baez, Trinity Pierre

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

South Plantation High School

Creativity

Adriana Peña, Music Director

Head Over Heels

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Critic Team

NSU University School

Dancer in a Female Role

Rubi Katz

Head Over Heels

NSU University School

Dancer in a Male Role

Trey’lon Salley

Carrie the Musical

Dillard Center for the Arts

Ensemble in a Musical

Step Family Cinderella

Calvary Christian Academy

Ensemble in a Play

Rude Mechanicals A Midsummer Night’s Dream

South Plantation High School

Featured Actor in a Female Role in a Musical

Marni Gass

Catch Me if You Can

West Boca Raton High

Featured Actor in a Female Role in a Play

Ava Chen

Radium Girls

J.P. Taravella High School

Featured Actor in a Male Role in a Musical

Sam Dyer

Head Over Heels

NSU University School

Featured Actor in a Male Role in a Play

Jareb Goldston

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

South Plantation High School

Freshman Critic

Kenny Gervais

Cooper City High School

Hair and Make-up in a Musical

Haleigh Mish, Farah O’Halloran, Shayna Soffer

Head Over Heels

NSU University School

Hair and Make-up in a Play

Brianny Frias

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

South Plantation High School

Junior Critic

Avery Redlich

NSU University School

Lead Actor in a Female Role in a Musical

Angelina Nazario

In the Heights

Coral Springs High School

Lead Actor in a Female Role in a Play

Katherine Rodgers

Distracted

The Benjamin School

Lead Actor in a Male Role in a Musical

Logan LaPierre

Head Over Heels

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Lead Actor in a Male Role in a Play

Achillea Befeld

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

South Plantation High School

Lighting in a Musical

Maya Rowe

In the Heights

Coral Springs High School

Lighting in a Play

Avery Garfinkel

Puffs

Cooper City High School

Marketing and Publicity

Jack Steinman, Ellie Esquenazi, Emma Rodriguez

Head Over Heels

NSU University School

Musical

In the Heights

Coral Springs High School

Play

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

South Plantation High School

Props in a Musical

Mel Kahan

In the Heights

Coral Springs High School

Props in a Play

Rebecca Weltmann

Blithe Spirit

American Heritage School

Senior Critic

Zoe Tibbs

Calvary Christian Academy

Sets in a Musical

Mikayla Blue and Melanie Escalante

In the Heights

Coral Springs High School

Sets in a Play

Melina Lugo and Kaylee Mastrangelo

Puffs

Cooper City High School

Song

Blackout

In the Heights

Coral Springs High School

Sophomore Critic

Jack Steinman

NSU University School

Sound in a Play

Damien Ellowitz

Blithe Spirit

American Heritage School

Special Effects and or Technology

Nico Wellons, Sam Dyer, and Crew

Head Over Heels

NSU University School

Stage Management and Crew in a Musical

Jasmine Klein

Catch Me if You Can

West Boca Raton High

Stage Management and Crew in a Play

Peyton Barnett

Blithe Spirit

American Heritage School

Supporting Actor in a Female Role in a Musical

Malia Bryan

Carrie the Musical

Dillard Center for the Arts

Supporting Actor in a Female Role in a Play

Jessi Kaplan

Blithe Spirit

American Heritage School

Supporting Actor in a Male Role in a Musical

Adrian Graff

Legally Blonde

Cypress Bay High School

Supporting Actor in a Male Role in a Play

Anthony DeLeo

Puffs

Cooper City High School

Vocalist in a Female Role

Julia Romero

Chicago: Teen Edition

North Broward Preparatory School

Vocalist in a Male Role

Lemari Hills

In the Heights

Coral Springs High School

Votes from students determined the Cappies winners through a weighted peer-review voting process. Student critics make nominations from participating schools who attend productions at rival schools and write reviews, which are then edited by theater educators and published on FloridaTheaterOnStage.com.

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