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Nov. 2-5, 2023
2022 Festival Results
Solo & Group Events
Best of Festival, Solo/Group (Highest Collective Avg Score)
TIE - Cairo High School & Sunny Side Theater
Festival High Score - High School - TIE
Trevor Bolling & Alyssa Field, Wiregrass Drama Club
Ivey Simpson, The Studio
Olivia Szymanski, The Studio
Festival High Score - Middle School
Jemma Fripp, Independent
Festival High Score - Elementary School
Brady Mae Birdsong, The Studio
Elementary Division
Monologue
1 Brady Mae Birdsong, The Studio
2 Macy Wargo, The Studio
3 Levon Crawford, The Studio
Musical Theatre Solo
1 Brady Mae Birdsong, The Studio
2 Mary Claire Kelley, The Studio
3 Priscilla Simmons, The Studio
Musical Theatre Group
1 Brady Mae Birdsong, Louisa Lee, Macy Wargo, Mary Claire Kelley, Nia Thomaston,
Priscilla Simmons, Wynter Marlow - The Studio
Middle School Division
Monologue
1 Allison Peel, Wiregrass Drama Club
2 Ellie Grace Olson, Wiregrass Drama Club
3 Harper Reagan, Wiregrass Drama Club
Duologue
1 Ellie Grace Plant & Kaylin Steege, Wiregrass Drama Club
2 Kenzie Gale Nichols & Harper Reagan, Wiregrass Drama Club
3 Kenya Griffin & Kenady Williams, Dothan Prep
Scene
1 Kody Arnold, Gabby Jackson, Abby Bollinger, Kris Arnold - Dothan Prep
Musical Theatre Solo
1 Jemma Fripp, Independent
2 Stephen Colvin, Dothan Prep
3 Kenzie Gale Nichols, Circle City Music
Musical Theatre Duet
1 Sienna Urban & Teagan Bryant, Dothan Prep
2 Kennidy Battles & Tyleiga Lee, Dothan Prep
3 Ellie Grace Plant & Kaylin Steege, Wiregrass Drama Club
Musical Theatre Group
1 Arianna Locket, Tuhquetta Lewis, Sydney McDonald - Dothan Prep
SETC Combination
1 Olivia Thompson, Wiregrass Drama Club
2 Abigail Tankersly, Wiregrass Drama Club
3 Nyjah Berry, Dothan Prep
Technical - Costume
1 Jorgia Armstrong, Dothan Prep
Technical - Makeup
1 Rylie Allison, The Studio
Technical - Prop
1 Tristen Waters, Dothan Prep
Technical - Set
1 Allison Peel, Wiregrass Drama Club
2 Juliam Gallegos, Dothan Prep
High School Division
Monologue
1 Camille Murphree, Wiregrass Drama Club
2 Bella Clark, Sunny Side Theater
3 Makenzie Nero, The Studio
Duologue
1 Savannah Bright & Matthew Paragone, Sunny Side Theater
2 Linda Andrel & Ella Mims, Slocomb High School
3 Emma Olson & Ellie Grace Olson, Wiregrass Drama Club
Scene
1 Max Hobbie, Claire Forrester - Houston Academy
Musical Theatre Solo
1 Olivia Szymanski, The Studio
2 TIE (5)
Mendalyn Barber, Sunny Side Theater
Lilah Nagel, The Studio
Stephen Pinnella, Wiregrass Drama Club
Ellery Scott, The Studio
Faithlynn Swanson, Independent
Musical Theatre Duet
1 Trevor Bolling & Alyssa Field, Wiregrass Drama Club
2 Grace Smith & Landon Thornton, Dothan High School
3 Sophie Lokey & Lily Lokey, Wiregrass Drama Club
Musical Theatre Group
1 Adalyn Lyles, Ellery Scott, Lilah Nagel, Lily Grace Gordon, Olivia
Szymanski, Sadie Houston - The Studio
SETC Combination
1 Maddie Matthews, Wiregrass Drama Club
Technical - Costume
1 Alyssa Field, Wiregrass Drama Club
2 Sydney Smith, Wiregrass Drama Club
Technical - Makeup
1 Ivey Simpson, The Studio
2 Ayla Brannon, The Studio
Technical - Prop
1 Carson McGowan, Wiregrass Drama Club
One Act Festival
Best in Show and First Place
Spark Theater Company
Second Place
Sunny Side Theater
Third Place
Dothan Preparatory Academy
Best Actress
Saioa Cia McKean, Sunny Side Theater
Best Actor
Stephen Colvin, Dothan Preparatory Academy
Judge’s Choice Awards
Spark Theater Company, Set Design
Sunny Side Theater, Sound Design
Dothan Preparatory Academy, Costume Design
All-Star Awards
Kris Arnold, Dothan Preparatory Academy
Mendalyn Barber, Sunny Side Theater
Savannah Bright, Sunny Side Theater
Kayanna Frank, Spark Theater Company
Madison Gibson, Dothan Preparatory Academy
Zofia Walkowski, Spark Theater Company
Spirit of the Festival
Dothan Preparatory Academy
Keep up with our judges and their current projects:
Donna Pearl Cotterell
Indaba Theatre
Bill Lipscomb
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Charles Sirmon
Evelyn Tyler
Florida A & M University
SEACT Youth Theatre Festival
Nov. 10-13, 2022
Welcome! Our goal is to spotlight the talents of your students, and present an outstanding performing arts experience for you and our community.
Southeast Alabama Community Theatre is a non-profit organization that has a mission to introduce end encourage youth in the arts.
Events: One-Act, Monologue, Duologue, Scene, SETC combo, Musical Theatre Solo, Musical Theatre Duet, Musical Theatre Group, Technical Theatre Costume, Make-up, Prop, and Scene Design
The One-Act Festival will take place Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Dothan Opera House. (115 N. St. Andrews Street, Dothan)
Performances - admission is free to the general public. Doors open 15 minutes before the performance begins.
Saturday, Nov. 12
11:00 AM Spark Theatre Co
3:15 PM Sunny Side Theater (Mobile)
4:45 PM Dothan Preparatory Academy
The Individual and Group events will take place Thursday - Sunday, Nov. 10-13, at the Wiregrass Museum of Art. (126 Museum Ave., Dothan)
Thursday, Nov. 10
8:00 AM Dothan High School
9:45 AM Cairo High School Stagemakers
10:30 AM Dothan Preparatory Academy (events before and after lunch break)
2:45 PM Houston Academy
Friday, Nov. 11
11:00 AM Providence Christian School
11:15 AM Slocomb High School
1:35 PM Spark Theater Company
2:35 PM Circle City Music Studio
Saturday, Nov. 12
10:00 AM Wiregrass Drama Club (events before and after lunch break)
1:30 PM Sunny Side Theater
Sunday, Nov. 13
10:30 AM Wiregrass Drama Club
10:40 AM Faithlynn Swanson
11:00 AM The Studio (events before and after lunch break)
Meet the Judges
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DONNA PEARL COTTERELL
Donna Cotterell is an educator, writer, producer, director, actress and activist who resides in Tallahassee, Florida. She has thirty-nine years of theater experience and eleven years of teaching at the middle school level. She has a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Umass/Boston, an M.S. in Administrative Studies from Boston University, and an M.Ed. from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cotterell is the Founder and Director of both Indaba Theatre of New England (circa 2011) and Indaba Theatre of Florida (circa 2015), 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations. She currently performs with Swamp Gravy at Cotton Hall Theater in Colquitt, Georgia.
BILL LIPSCOMB
Bill Lipscomb has been a university theatre educator for more than twenty-five years, including 17 years at Troy University Dothan Campus, and several years before and after at various campuses in the Mississippi community college system. He currently teaches public speaking and theatre at MS Gulf Coast Community College- Jackson County. Bill has directed and provided dramaturgy for more than two dozen university and college productions, and has performed in and worked backstage in more than three dozen community theatre productions in Mississippi and Alabama. In 2018, he appeared as Doc in the SAG-AFTRA independent film Second Samuel, shot on location in the Wiregrass. He holds a BS in Radio, Film and Television; a BS in Speech Communication; and an MS in Speech Communication from the University of Southern Mississippi, as well as a PhD in Communication/Performance Studies from Louisiana State University.
CHARLES SIRMON
Charles Sirmon has a wealthy background in the arts. Sirmon studied intensively in New York City and Chicago where he received his master’s degree in directing from Roosevelt University and undergraduate degree from Auburn University. Sirmon has adjudicated and represented FCC and The Kennedy Center American College Theatre. Sirmon has been in theatre education for over 30 years. Sirmon has worked as an actor and director all over the southeast. He began his professional career in the Off Broadway premier production of Fallen Peach. Sirmon has spent many summers studying with NYC’s H.B. Studios, Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, and Chicago Shakespeare Company and most recently was a participant with New York City’s Second City Improv. Professional credits include director of It's a Grand Night for Singing starring Tony-nominated Tony Yazbeck and Emmy-award winner Sally Struthers.
EVELYN TYLER
Tyler, a native of South Carolina, is an associate professor of Theatre at Florida A&M University where she is also a theatre generalist serving in the following areas: acting, directing, prop making, costuming and event planning. Her recent Essential Theatre directorial work of Sweet Mama Stringbean by Beth Turner received a certificate in achievement in directing from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region IV as well as national recognition by earning The Citizen Artist Award and Special Achievement in the Production of A Musical. Other directorial credits include: Three Little Birds, The Long Goodbye (the world premiere production) and Sing On, Ms. Griot. Tyler is currently working as a Prop Master on The Essential Theatre production of Chicken and Biscuits and is also preparing to fulfill her role as costume designer on the upcoming spring production of Romeo and Juliet.
