Award of Excellence: Ensemble Performance

Award of Excellence: Playwrighting

Award of Excellence: Directing

Nomination: B.J. Castleman New Playwright Award

Outstanding Production

Festival closing ceremonies were held at Hart House Theatre on Saturday April 14th.Toronto Regional awards included:

Award of Merit: Performance: Chevone Griffith

Award of Excellence: Performance: Kanika Ambrose

Award of Excellence: Directing: Trisha Villanueva

Outstanding New Student Written Play

Outstanding Production

Provincial Festival awards from The David Howe Theatre, Brock University May 16th to May 18th were:

Excellence in Production

Oustanding Achievement: Directing: Trisha Villanueva

Ken and Ann Watts Memorial Scholarship (Only four given at Provincials): ($3000): Bea Palanca and Kanika Ambrose

Mira Award: (Only four given at Provincials) Performance: Kanika Ambrose

Invitation to perform at Summerworks in August

Notre Dame Excels Again at Sears Festival
Notre Dame drama students have advanced again for the fourth year in a row to the Provincial level of the Sears Drama Festival, which will take place the week of May 14th to 18th in St. Catherines, Ontario.

District Awards:
Award of Excellence for Playwriting: Kanika Ambrose, Faaizah Ahmed, Adelaida Blaxley, Chelsea Dowling, Chevone Griffith, Michiko Onate, Bea Palanca, and Trisha Villanueva
Award of Excellence for Directing: Trisha Villanueva; Award of Excellence for Ensemble Performance: the cast
Outstanding Production Award

Regional Awards:
Award of Merit for Acting: Chevone Griffith
Award of Excellence for Acting: Kanika Ambrose Award of Excellence for Directing: Trisha Villanueva Outstanding Production (Advances them to the Provincials)

Cast List: Actors: Kanika Ambrose, Chelsea Dowling, Chevone Griffith, Michiko Onate, Bea Palanca, Vanessa Venton Director: Trisha Villanueva Production Manager: Faaizah Ahmed Writers: all of the above and Adelaida Blaxely. Crew:Aila Comilang, Stage Manager; Isabelle Simpas, Lighting and Mary Karniszewski, Sound.

“My Umm Hmm”
Kanika Ambrose, Grade 12 student at Notre Dame High School, has written and starred in her own one-woman show entitled “My Umm Hmm”. The show was selected to be part of the Paprika Festival for new playwrights 21 and under. Kanika invited fellow students Trisha Villanueva and Bea Palanca to join her as Director and Stage Manager respectively. The Paprika Festival Training Program offers young artists the opportunity to collaborate with professionals to learn the crafts of theatre-making, explore the challenges and possibilities of the creative process, and maximize their works’ exciting potential. The Paprika Festival Training Program team includes professional artists like Marjorie Chan, Sue LePage, Weyni Mengesha and Lisa Anne Ross.