Thirty-three Culver City High School students are returning to the California Educational Theatre Assn. High School Theatre Festival in Anaheim — where the school was a big winner last year — on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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Justin Lujan, left, in dialogue with Tim Robbins of The Actor’s Gang
They are set to have a weekend full of shows, workshops and competitions.
Four seniors will be competing for college scholarship money: Kayla Guirguis and Aaron Moses will be performing contrasting audition monologues.
Amy King will be performing a contrasting audition song and monologue as well as interviewing for the Vivian (Bish) Edwards scholarship for Theatre Education, and Jennifer Schallert will have a technical interview for her costuming portfolio.
At the same time, four African-American actors are competing in the preliminary round of the August Wilson Monologue Competition: Kayla Valentine, Atiyyah Joseph, Nicole Julian, and Danielle Kellum.
The monologue competition is sponsored by the Center Theatre Group and will continue in March with a regional round at the Mark Taper Forum downtown.
In May three finalists will perform at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway in in New York.
“The participants will take workshops, watch plays and learn a lot about the joy and craft of theatre,” said Justin Lujan, Creative Director of Theatre for Culver High. “The competitors are talented and well prepared.”
See avpa.org
