EASTON, PA (Northampton County) – Students across several high schools from the Lehigh Valley and Warren County were at The State Theatre Center for the Arts in Easton Thursday night for the annual Freddy Awards.
The Freddy Awards are to recognize and reward exceptional accomplishments in the production and performance of musical theater in high schools in Lehigh and Northampton Counties in Pennsylvania, and Warren County in New Jersey.
Warren Hills Regional and Belvidere High Schools each received 1.
Here is a complete list of all the 2024 Freddy Award winner
Outstanding Use of Lighting
- Dieruff – Cabaret
Outstanding Use of Scenery
- Bangor Area – Mean Girls High School Version
Outstanding Performance by a Male Ensemble Member
- Charles Kenney – Jean-Michael – Emmaus – Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Broadway Version)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Ensemble Member
- Tori Davis – Alice Beineke – Southern Lehigh – The Addams Family: School Edition
The Air Products Education/Community Impact Award
- Nazareth Area
Outstanding Small Ensemble Performance (TIE)
- Anna Edwards & Kaysiana Yeager – “Stepsisters’ Lament” Allentown Central Catholic – Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Enchanted Edition)
- Mayrali Melendez & Melo Rodriguez – “It Couldn’t Please Me More” Dieruff – Cabaret
Outstanding Performance by an Orchestra
- Nazareth Area – Disney’s The Little Mermaid
Vic Kumma Award for Outstanding Solo Vocal Performance
- Anna Chavolla – “There’s Music In You” – Emmaus – Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Broadway Version)
Outstanding Use of Costumes
- Freedom – 42nd Street
Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
- Addison Giesler – Ursula – Nazareth Area – Disney’s The Little Mermaid
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
- Melo Rodriguez – Herr Shultz – Dieruff – Cabaret
Outstanding Use of Choreography & Musical Staging
- Freedom – 42nd Street
Outstanding Ensemble
- Parkland – The SpongeBob Musical
Outstanding Performance by a Featured Dancer
- Amelia Roberto – Acrobat – Warren Hills Regional – Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical
Outstanding Featured Performance by an Actor (TIE)
- Noah Hover – Sebastian – Emmaus – Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Broadway Version)
- Agidio Poloni – Patrick Star – Parkland – The SpongeBob Musical
Outstanding Featured Performance by an Actress
- Skyler Young – Olive Ostrovsky – Belvidere – The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bell
Outstanding Featured Performance by an Actress
- Hailey Lara – Regina George – Whitehall – Mean Girls High School Version
Outstanding Stage Crew (In memory of Capt. Christopher Seifert)
- Bangor Area – Mean Girls High School Version
Outstanding Production Number
- Emmaus – “The Prince Is Giving A Ball” – Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Broadway Version)
lehighvalleylive.com + The Express-Times Student Achievement Award
- Lauren Ressler – Costumer/Troupe President – Nazareth Area – Disney’s The Little Mermaid
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
- Vasilis Motsenigos – SpongeBob – Parkland – The SpongeBob Musical
Outstanding Overall Production by a Smaller School
- Wilson Area – Newsies
Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical
ADDITIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS & COMMUNITY AWARDS:
West Virginia Scholarship
- Ayden Gonzalez – Dieruff
- Robert Morgan – Southern Lehigh
Civic Theatre of Allentown Internship & Scholarship
- Charlie Christian – Dieruff
East Stroudsburg University Scholarship
- Bella Smith – Belvidere
Pennsylvania Youth Ballet/Ballet Guild of the Lehigh Valley Summer Dance Intensive
- Claire De Dominici Allentown Central Catholic
- Lucinda Loftu Catasauqua
- Amy Tirad North Warren Regional
- Abbey Gildner Northampton Area
- Tina Andreano Notre Damn
- Amelia Roberto Warren Hills Regional
- Liam Coyle Wilson Area
