Crystal Stewart and Yotum Almor rehearse a scene from Miss Julie, which won them a South Carolina Thespian award for duet acting. Students in Richland Northeast High School's Palmetto Center for the Arts Theatre program won top awards at Palmetto Dramatics Association and the South Carolina Theatre and Speech Association festivals in February

Original Play Competition Crystal Stewart, first place for her play Shades of S

Performance and

Production Awards Superior, for the production of Shades of S

Superior Acting, for the

entire ensemble of Shades

of S, Crystal Stewart, Jasmine James, Rashida Beach, and Bianca Davis

South Carolina Thespian

individual winners Yotum Almor, first place

Short Film, Shibboleth

Crystal Stewart and Yotum Almor, first place Duet Acting,

Miss Julie

Rashida Beach, first place Solo Musical

PCA Theatre students selected to compete at the

International Thespian

Festival, in Lincoln,

Nebraska

Solo Musical Hermon Whaley, I Was Born

the Day Before Yesterday

Crystal Stewart, Gorgeous

Torron Grimes, One Song

Glory

Ashley McFadden, If You

Believe

Rashida Beach, Forget

About the Boy

Duet Acting Rasida Beach and Jasmine

James, The Gingerbread

Lady

Crystal Stewart and Yotum

Almor, Miss Julie

Lisa Houck and Morgan

Grooms, Independence

Duet Musical Hermon Whaley and Crystal Stewart, Stud and a

Babe

Monologue Jasmine James

Short Film Yotum Almor

Winners at the South Carolina Theatre and Speech

Association Festival

First Place Ensemble

Theatre Crystal Stewart, Hermon Whaley, Jalissa Fulton, Yotum Almor, Justin Hall, and Tevin Williams for their performance excerpt of

Working

Second Place Ensemble

Theatre Crystal Stewart, Torron Grimes, Hermon Whaley, and Tevin Williams for their performance excerpt

of The Wiz

First Place Original

Monologue Torron Grimes

Second Place Readers

Theatre Karli Wells, Catherine Ann Taylor, Trey King, Lisa Houck, and Morgan Grooms

Third Place Solo Acting Bianca Davis