West Virginia Secondary Schools
Theatre Festival 

    Each year, the West Virginia Theatre Conference invites West Virginia high schools to perform and compete during WVTC's annual conference. The secondary schools theatre festival has been and continues to be a vital part of the West Virginia Theatre Conference. Spirited presentations from high schools as far north as Oak Glen and as far south as Wyoming East have long joined hands for autumn weekends filled with theatre spectacle and educational opportunity.
     In either late October or early November, high school students and their teachers gather to share a variety of educational theatre issues. Theatre problems, perceptions, and productions are explored in multiple venues and formats from formal productions to casual workshops, from impromptu meetings in a university hallway to scheduled conferences around a meeting table. Beginning with the raising of the grand drapery early Friday morning and ending with the grand finale of Saturday evening's curtain call, the secondary schools theatre festival, the pulse of the West Virginia Theatre Conference, continues to highlight theatre education with a vitality that speaks well of the secondary theatre programs throughout our state.
     The adjudicated winner of The West Virginia Secondary Schools Theatre Festival is eligible to represent the state during a two-day theatre festival at the Southeastern Theatre Conference Annual Convention.  

          Contact Crystal Gibson, for more information.

(sign language or other personnel-based accommodations require 30 day advance notice)

2007 Secondary Schools Theatre Festival

In addition to The Scarecrow from Greenbrier East, which top honors in the Secondary School Festival, the following schools and individuals were honored at the awards banquet for their contributions to this year’s West Virginia Theatre Conference:

• Twisted Jazz, Clay County High School's entry, directed by Crystal Gibson, took the Distinguished Play award,
• Musselman High School's ISO received the Best Ensemble award.
• Conference Best Actor was Musselman's Colton Miller
• Conference Best Actress went to Clay County's Rebecca Creel
• Best Supporting Actors were Tory Rodgers of Greenbrier East, and Justin Blankenship of Braxton County High School.
• Braxton County's Life is Short received a special award for the work of student directors
• Jefferson High School's faculty and students were honored for their global vision in the production, Speak Truth to Power.

The All-Conference Cast included:

Musselman High School: ISO, Gabrielle Tobach, Daniel Moxley

Jefferson High School : Speak Truth to Power, Christopher Gomes, Olivia Lloyd

Meadow Bridge High School: Sure Thing, Kyle McGee, Kaitlyn Crowe

Greenbrier East High School: Scarecrow, Aaron Seems, Erin Nolan

Braxton County Landmark Studio: Life is Short, Adam Tanner, Briar Martin

Clay County High School: Twisted Jazz, Chase Robertson, Kelsey Stover

Michael Gallimore transforms from high school student to Pa, a Scottish patriarch, in the 2004 winning performance of Laurie Brooks' Selkie by Wyoming East High School.