2024 FESTIVAL RESULTS
Festival High Score (Highest Collective Average Score)
1. Conyers Creative Kids
2. Samuel Edward Theater Company
3. Bay Area Performing Arts
Festival High Score - High School
Abigail Bishop (Costume Design) - SEACT Student Company
Festival High Score - Middle School
Caleb Erven (Monologue) - Conyers Creative Kids
Festival High Score - Elementary School
Mia DeShazo (Monologue) - The Studio
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DIVISION
Monologue
1. Mia DeShazo - The Studio
2. Addison Weihe - Conyers Creative Kids
3. Zola Caruso - Conyers Creative Kids
Duologue
1. Charlie Paragone, Colsson Layne - Sunny Side Theater
2. Ella Butts, Ian Precht - Sunny Side Theater
Musical Theatre Solo
1. Colsson Layne - Sunny Side Theater
TIE 2. Addison Weihe - Conyers Creative Kids
TIE 2. Brooklyn Mitchell - Sunny Side Theater
3. Zola Caruso - Conyers Creative Kids
Musical Theatre Duet
1. Brooklyn Mitchell, Betsy McAleer - Sunny Side Theater
2. Sawyer Ledger, Graham Russell - Bay Area Performing Arts
MIDDLE SCHOOL DIVISION
Monologue
1. Caleb Erven - Conyers Creative Kids
2. Justice Nelson - The Studio
3. Fiona Caruso - Conyers Creative Kids
Duologue
1. Calleigh Mitchell, Katharine Whitehead - SEACT Student Company
Musical Theatre Solo
1. Caleb Erven - Conyers Creative Kids
2. Anthony Paragone - Sunny Side Theater
3. Fiona Caruso - Conyers Creative Kids
Musical Theatre Duet
1. Andrew Taylor, DJ Cobb - Bay Area Performing Arts
2. Fiona Caruso, Caleb Erven - Conyers Creative Kids
3. Julia Clayton Wilkins, Anthony Paragone - Sunny Side Theater
Musical Theatre Group
1. Conyers Creative Kids, "Come to the Fun Home" - Caleb Erven, Silas Erven, Zola Caruso, Fiona Caruso
2. Conyers Creative Kids, "Pandemonium" - Fiona Caruso, Zola Caruso, Caleb Erven, Silas Erven, Logan Gable, Autumn Ellington, Victoria Phillips, Addison Weihe, Keegan Thomas, Ayven Pelkey, Elijah Broughton, Lailea Bakken
HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION
Monologue
1. Starla Hall - Bay Area Performing Arts
2. Megan Mathis - SEACT Student Company
3. Libby Jordan - The Studio
Musical Theatre Solo
1. Lily Grace Gordon - The Studio
TIE 2. Charis Faehnrich - The Studio
TIE 2. Sawyer Knight - Bay Area Performing Arts
TIE 3. Annah Edwards - Sunny Side Theater
TIE 3. Eden Singletary - Cairo High School's The Stage Makers
Musical Theatre Duet
1. Ammon Knight, Sawyer Knight - Bay Area Performing Arts
2. Abigail Tankersley, Addison McNeal - SEACT Student Company
3. Ella Donop, Sara Donop - Providence Christian School
Musical Theatre Group
1. Bay Area Performing Arts, "When I Grow Up" - Claire Bradley, Collins Gober, DJ Cobb, Sammi Akins, Whitley Hale, Pately Saliski, Andrew Taylor
2. Bay Area Performing Arts, "Six" - Sadie Houston, Lily Alcathie, Lilah Nagel, Lyric Hall, Mary Linda Greenwood, Lauren Taylor
3. Bay Area Performing Arts, "Who I'd Be" - Ammon Knight, Elizabeth Rayfield, Sawyer Knight
Technical Theatre
1. Abigail Bishop - SEACT Student Company
2. Lorelai Bishop - SEACT Student Company
3. Addy Hardwick - Providence Christian School
10-MINUTE PLAY
1. Conyers Creative Kids, "Things Fall Meanwhile"
2. Sunny Side Theater, "I'll Be Seeing You"
3. Sunny Side Theater, "The Investigation"
Best Actor
Caleb Erven - Conyers Creative Kids
Best Actress
Addyson Reid - Sunny Side Theater
All Stars
PJ Davis -SEACT Student Company
Chad Snell - Dothan Preparatory Academy
Justice Nelson - The Studio
Gabby Mills - Sunny Side Theater
Liz Buchanan - Houston Academy
Gabrielle Saffold - Dothan Preparatory Academy
Judges' Choice
Alien Ensemble - Sunny Side Theater
Tech Crew - Conyers Creative Kids
Playwriting - Dothan Preparatory Academy
SEACT's TheatreFest!
Southeast Alabama Community Theatre (SEACT) of Dothan, Alabama is pleased to welcome you to TheatreFest. SEACT wants to spotlight the talents of your best and brightest students. Our goal is to present an outstanding performing arts experience for all involved. It is our hope that TheatreFest will spark extra drive and determination to launch a successful school year, or provide valuable experience in preparing for district, regional, and state competitions.
Dates and Location
November 7-10, 2024
Cultural Arts Center (909 S Saint Andrews St., Dothan, AL 36301)
Updates
This year, we will offer a 10-minute play event in lieu of a separate one-act festival. Cuttings of one-acts are more than permissible. Our aim is to make this extended performance opportunity accessible to more students. Please review additional updates and guidelines in the TheatreFest 2024 Handbook.
Deadlines
Friday August 30 - Early Bird Special (10% Discount; enter code EARLYBIRD at checkout)
Friday, September 20 - Team Registration and Non-Refundable Payment Due
Friday, October 4 - Email event entry form to billyh@seact.com. If you are entering a 10-minute play, please submit your list of actors with character names and headshots. This will help the judges immensely with their deliberations.
Payment
After you submit your registration form, you may pay in two ways:
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Pay by credit card via the Arts People website
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Pay by check
Checks should be made out to:
SEACT
ATTN: Billy Hutto, TheatreFest
909 S Saint Andrews Street
Dothan, AL 36301
All payments are nonrefundable.
Questions?
Contact Festival Director, Billy Hutto at:
Phone: 334.794.0400
E-mail: billyh@seact.com
Schedule
Doors open 15 minutes before the performance begins.
Thursday, Nov. 7
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Cairo High School's The Stage Makers
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Providence Christian School
3:45 PM - 5:45 PM | SEACT Student Company
Friday, Nov. 8
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Dothan Preparatory Academy
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Houston Academy (Elementary and Middle School)
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM | Houston Academy (High School)
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM | Circle City Music Studio
Saturday, Nov. 9
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | The Studio (Elementary and Middle School)
1:00 PM - 3:15 PM | The Studio (10-Minute Plays and High School)
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM | Samuel Edward Theater Company
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM | Conyers Creative Kids
Sunday, Nov. 10
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Sunny Side Theater
1:00 PM - 5:15 PM | Bay Area Performing Arts
Festival Judges
Dr. Luvada A. Harrison is an Associate Professor of Musical Theatre/Voice in the Department of Theatre & Dance. She has performed with regional opera companies and symphony orchestras throughout the United States and Europe. Recent debuts include guest artist with the Meridian and Gulf Port Symphony Orchestras of Mississippi and as a Cabaret artist at the infamous Davenport’s Piano Bar in Chicago under the direction of Matt Davis. Harrison received nationalexposure as Aida in the Drama Queens episode on HBO’s hit series Sex and the City. Choreographer Cornelius Carter chose her to perform with dancer Lawrence Jackson in I Walk with Spirit presented at the 76th Dance-Forms International Choreographers’ Showcase at the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland. A member of the inaugural cohort of Collaborative Arts Research Initiative Fellows (CARI), her completed collaborations include The Visit – a short documentary film recreating for modern audiences Booker T. Washington’s 1910 address delivered at Tuscaloosa’s First African Baptist Church and On Whose Shoulders We Stand– a multi-media recital presentation recreating the 1982 historic Shirley Verrett and Grace Bumbry Carnegie Hall duet recital in honor of Marian Anderson’s 80th Birthday. Ongoing collaborations include: The Moods of Dotts Johnson in Song – an original Musical Theatre piece inspired by the life and work of Dotts Johnson, the first African American actor to perform a leading role in a foreign film, Piasan by Italian film director Roberto Rossellini and Wearable Breathing Sensors – this unique collaboration blends engineering with voice pedagogy.
Awards include an Alabama State Council on the Arts Artist Fellowship Grant, 2022-2025 College of A&S Leadership Board Fellow, and the Dotts Johnson Project recently received a second Arts Projects Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Cam Williams is proud to call Alabama home. He graduated from Troy University with a B.S.E. in Theatre Education p-12. He has worked with the Johnson Center for the Arts and Troy University for Arts Education-based programming for young artists. He taught high school theatre with Troy City Schools briefly after college. Most recently, he’s worked with Live and in Color on a workshop production of a brand-new musical titled With Bells On (CT), and its NYC premiere at The Green Room 42. For the past two seasons, Cam has worked with the producing team at Alabama Shakespeare Festival as Artistic Coordinator. This fall Cam will be directing a production of The Taming of the Shrew as part of ASF's Shakespeare in our Schools Initiative: The 2023 Fall Festival of Shakespeare. He is passionate about the performing arts and creating avenues for access for younger people who wish to pursue this art medium.
Ryan Sozzi is a working professional in the technical theater world. Ryan has a master degree in costume design from Texas State University, he also has a bachelor's degree in dramatic media for Texas Lutheran University. He is currently the director of costume production at Alabama Shakespeare. Previous design work: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play, Speech and Debate. He also was assistant costume designer on Singing in the Rain at the Zach Theater in Austin, Tx. He won the KCACTF Region 6 award for design excellence in 2019 in costumes for his design of Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play.