Every spring, Lia's high school theater program hosts Dramafest which consists of a few student-directed one-act plays. Lia performed in a one-act play during both her 10th and 11th grade year. After applying to be one of the directors this spring, she found out that she was chosen with two other seniors during the closing week of Freaky Friday in March. After the musical ended, Lia and the two other senior directors hosted auditions the next week and rehearsals began the following week. Lia chose to direct a more serious one-act play called Me, My Monsters, and I which is about a boy dealing with the grief from his sister's death in a car accident six months earlier. Similar to the Pixar movie, Inside Out, all of the various emotions that he is feeling are played by the other actors in the play. Lia did a great job directing this one-act play and the nine actors she casted to a great job acting. It was a very touching and heartfelt play and I am so proud of Lia for taking on this new role at the conclusion of her high school theater experience.
Every Thursday, our district sends out a newsletter via email to all of the thousands of parents and employees of our district. A few weeks ago, this newsletter included all three spring plays that would be performing at the high schools. Lia's name was actually included with the information being shared about Dramafest at her high school. I thought that it was so cool to see her name in this newsletter that I screenshotted and included it above.
Lia's pictures with the other two student directors and her theater director on a wall in the lobby.
Lia's good friend, Isabelle, was one of the two other student directors. Here are the two of them in the theater before the show began on opening night.
All of the directors got to come out on stage and introduce their one-act play before they performed. Here is Lia introducing her play on opening night.
In addition to introducing her play, Lia was the only director who was asked to perform before each of the one-act plays. She competed in the South Sound Thespian Competition last January and received a Superior score for both the monologue and the two-person scene (with her "Almost Maine" co-star) that she performed. This score qualified her to compete at Nationals this summer in Indiana. Although she is not flying out for this competition, Lia's theater director asked her to perform her monologue before all four of the Dramafest performances. Her monologue was over 4 minutes long and she did such an amazing job!
All nine actors in Lia's play sitting on the edge of the stage during their performance.
The actors of Me, My Monsters, and I taking a bow at the end of their show.
The three student directors bowing at the end of the three shows.
On closing night, two sophomore students recognized all of the seniors involved in Dramafest--the directors, the actors, and the backstage crew members by giving each of them a rose. Here is Lia holding her rose at the front of the stage.
Although I went alone on opening night on Thursday, all five of us went to watch the closing show on Saturday night. Here is Lia with the five of us after her final show.
Although Lia didn't perform in a one-act this year, she had some friends come to support her to some of the shows. Here she is with Spencer (who performed in another one-act play) with two of her NTWL friends, Max and AJ, and one of her running friends, Emma, after the closing show.
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