2023-24 Accolades
27 Colleges and Conservatories participating in College Showcase for Theatre
56 offers to programs made at College Showcase
National YoungArts Foundation Winner
Ayviana Singh, Theatre
48 Applause Award nominations for “Natasha Pierre & the
Great Comet of 1812”
49 Applause Award Nominations for “Once on this Island”
5 District One-Act Festival Awards for our One-Act play “I & You” by
Lauren Gunderson, including
Best Actor (Jahkobi North)
Best Actress (Sofia Marcilese)
Best Stage Manager (Delaney Hagist)
Best Play
All-Star Performer (Ava Venzon)
11 Critic’s Choice Winners and 8 Alternates at the District Thespian Festival
(a festival record!)
District 2 Representative – Tech - Audrey Dunham, Scenic Design
(highest award a tech student can receive)
District 2 Representative – 1st Runner-Up - Performance - Lord of the Flies
District 2 Representative – 2nd Runner-Up - Performance- Blow, Gabriel, Blow from Anything Goes
3 NAACP Afro-Academic, Cultural. Technological and Scientific Olympics Winners:
Samuel Nelson (Vocal: Classical)
Ayviana Singh (Dramatics),
Micah Webster-Bass (Poetry Performance)
Applause Awards Scholarship Winners
DJ DeJesus
Micah Webster-Bass
Nick Benwick
Olivia De Maio
DCPS Seal of Fine Arts
Kyla Randall
Claire Smith
Olivia De Maio
Micah Webster-Bass
Florida Arts for Life Scholarship Recipient
Olivia De Maio
Top Honors at Florida State Thespian Festival for Solo Musical
Olivia De Maio
Kenan Excellency Award from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Brennan Mitchell
Overall Outstanding Individual Performance Award, 2024 Junior Theater Festival
Raegan Ochs
iTheatrics Musical Recording position
Kevin Wright
38 Applause Award Wins including “Outstanding Musical” wins for both “Once On This Island” and “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812”
2 Jimmy Nominees – George Eastman and Emma Cate Davis
Gold Medal, National ACT-SO Competition
Ayviana Singh
