Thespian Troupe 6299
Membership
Students earn thespian points by participating in theatre productions, competitions and events. We hold an induction ceremony once a year where new students are formally inducted into our troupe.
Prior to becoming a member, students may participate in thespian events. After becoming a member, students must maintain their membership each year.
IMPORTANT DATES
October 26, 2024 District THESPYS/held at Blake HS
December 4,5&6 District One Act Play Festival/held at USF
March 19 - 22 Florida State Thespian Festival
For a list of Thespy categories and rules, visit the state website at https://floridathespians.com/individual-event-rules/
Exciting Results from District Thespy Events
This season, Encore students attended District Thespys held at Blake HS in October and District One Acts held at USF in December. Our troupe did very well at Districts this year and are looking foward the STATE FESTIVAL in March! Our troupe took 51 Thespy events to Districts. 30 of those received SUPERIOR RATINGS...the top rating!
2024 SUPERIOR RATED EVENTS:
| Solo Musical | Vee Smith | A Quiet Night at Home from BARE the Musical |
| Large Group Musical | Sanchez and Co | C'mon Everybody from All Shook Up |
| Large Group Musical | Espinal and Co | Just Arrived from Copacabana |
| Ensemble Acting | Nightlinger and Co | Cafe Murder |
| Ensemble Acting | Tran and Co | Regina Flector Wins the Science Fair |
| Solo Acting | Janiyah DeJesus | The Rehearsal/Like Dreaming Backwards |
| Duet Acting | Cromer and Tran | Rabbit Hole |
| Small Group Musical | Leak and Co | Security Meltdown from Calvin Berger |
| Small Group Musical | Smith and Co | I Know It's Today from Shrek the Musical |
| Ensemble Acting | Gabriel and Co | One Stoplight Town |
| Scenic Design | Shantell Burdette | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Costume Design | Shantell Burdette | Little Shop of Horrors |
| Solo Musical | Makenna Leak | I'm Your Man from Meet John Doe |
| Duet Acting | Mas and Madrid | The Children's Hour |
| Solo Musical | Lautaro Sanchez | Lost in the Wilderness from Children of Eden |
| Duet Musical | Huntoon and Centeno | Love and the Weather from White Christmas |
| Duet Acting | Young and Egly | Scooter Thomas Makes It To the Top of the World |
| Small Group Musical | Wilson and Co | That's Why I Love My Man from The Great American Trailer Park Musical |
| Small Group Musical | Nelson and Co | So Good So Far from The Hello Girls |
| Ensemble Acting | Barnhill and Co | Eleemosynary |
| Scenic Design | Jean Gonzalez | The Little Mermaid |
| Costume Design | Daniel Gabriel | Mary Poppins |
| Solo Acting | Alexander Le | Protecto/Cruising Close to Crazy |
| Choreography | Samantha Fernandez | Tackle That Temptation from Nunsense |
| Theatre Marketing | Jennifer Van-Treese | Tick Tick Boom |
| Solo Musical | Caroline Wilson | The Fire Within Me from Little Women |
| Choreography | Arielle Strawn | Sexy from Mean Girls |
| Playwriting | Manny Young | Once Upon A Script |
| Playwriting | Mailin Nightlinger | A Memory's Mystery |
| Playwriting | Jose Hernandez | Blinded in Ambrosia |
Some of our Thespy events earned the highest score in their room/category at districts and earned the title of TOP HONORS. All of our TOP HONORS also received the DISTRICT REP NOMINATION in their category.
Those events are:
Small Group Musical: That's Why I Love My Man from The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Solo Musical: The Fire Within fro Little Women
Theatre Marketing: Tick Tick Boom
In addition to our individual thespy events, our troupe also entered our play ONE STOPLIGHT TOWN in the District One Act Play Festival. The play received STRAIGHT SUPERIORS. Eddie Huntoon was awarded the recognition of District All Star Cast and the entire ensemble received the award of OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE. Four of the Twenty Four plays entered at Districts earned the honor of representing our district at our STATE FESTIVAL and our play is one of those four! WE'RE GOING TO STATE!!!!
Each troupe is allowed to bring ONLY 6 Thespy events to STATE. In addition to our one act play, the following Thespy pieces have been chosen to represent our troupe at STATE:
Small Group Musical: That's Why I Love My Man
Small Group Musical: Security Meltdown
Solo Musical: The Fire Within
Solo Musical: I'm Your Man
Theatre Marketing: Tick Tick Boo
Choreography: Tackle That Temptation
In addition, two of our playwriting entries are also moving on to STATE:
Once Upon a Script and A Memory's Mystery