Thespians To Compete at 2019 State Competition

    Each year, Texas Thespians host a state-wide festival which includes over 8,200 attendees. This year, students and their troupe directors will celebrate an entire weekend of theatre November 21-23 at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine.
   Temple High will present a shortened version of the play Wilderness that students performed in October at Meridith-Dunbar Auditorium. Temple's performance is Saturday, November 23, at 8:30 a.m. in Room Texas C on the 3rd level of the convention center.
   Student will compete in the International Thespian Excellence Awards (Thespys™ for short). which is an educational program that offers Thespians the opportunity to receive constructive feedback on prepared theatrical material and technical designs. A panel of judges rate the entries with superior as the top possible score. Last year, all eight Temple entries received superior ratings.
   For the group musical contest, students will be performing "Snuff That Girl" from Urinetown. Competing students include Terry Austin, Liam Bro, Kerynn Eckenrode, Jacob Edwards, Jonathan Equels, Cameron Hooper, Erica Lynch, Austin Madsen, Genevieve Myers, Macy Parks, Allie Quiroz, Michael Rodriguez and Mimansha Shrestha.
   Sereniti Patterson will perform "Easy As Life" from Aida in the solo musical competition.
   Torrie Culp, Alexander Gontscharow and Julia Prather will compete in group acting with a scene from Arabian Nights. A second group acting team will include Alyssa Amador, Jasmin Buckner, Matthew Harris and Jacoah Grey, and will perform a scene from Triage.
   Daniel Salazar will enter his original video "Thirst" in the short film (five minutes) contest.
   Entries in the technical Thespys contests include Kylie Burke (theatrical marketing), Olivia Cabrera (makeup design), Ricardo Fontanez (lighting design) Michael Jones (sound design) and Morgan Madsen (scenic design).
   Texas-only team technical events include:
     Team Costume Design: Dacey Dulaney, Jillian Knox, Audrey Portillo and Lauren Bruckbauer.
     Team Set Design: Amy Alarcon, Kerynn Eckenrode, Penelope Gonzalez and Allie Quiroz.
     Team Hair and Makeup Design: Baylee Black, Jonathan Equels, Macy Parks and Julia Prather.
     Team Mask Making: Kylie Burke, Olivia Cabrera, Morgan Madsen and Kelsi Seiter.
Last year, Temple won the state championships in team set design and team mask making.
   The Texas Tech Challenge is a series of timed events that are designed to test the knowledge of basic skills that every technician should have. Tech Challenge team members include Terry Austin, Jacob Edwards, Kayla Ezaqui, Colin Fowler, Penelope Gonzalez, Jacoah Grey and Connor Harty.