Monday, February 5, 2018

Family Tradition continues

2018 Ashland High School Actors win Honors at Regional Acting Competition

  10 of the actors won blue ribbons as State Qualifiers (top 10% scores); they will go on to the state acting competition in Salem, OR in April.


Akira Supelana-Mix   State qualifier Solo Acting 

Because I wanted to make sure all the information was correct, I copied this from an email the Ashland High School theatre teacher and director sent. 

Last night as we were on Skype, Akira performed his two monologues for me. He chose really well, choosing two that were very different: the first, Puck, from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream; the second, Hamilton, from Lin Manuel Maranda's Hamilton. One poetic,
light and very active, the other modern rap, heavy and appropriately still.  

Having coached students to participate in such competitions and also having judged a number
of them, I thought he did very well and I was very proud, both as theatre person and as a grand- mother. 

Ashland High School sent 25 students to the event, with 13 of them winning 18 awards. Very
impressive. I am so pleased with the theatre program at AHS and grateful that Akira is a part of it and doing well. 

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