The California State Thespian Festival was held at the Highlander Auditorium in Upland on March 29-31, 2018. Over 1400 high school Thespians attended from 65 California High Schools. During the course of the weekend, students compete in dozens of events, attend workshops, see performances, and vie for $15,000 in scholarship money.

76% of the CHS students who competed in the individual events competition received a superior rating:

CLAREMONT HIGH SCHOOL THEATRE DEPARTMENT WON NUMEROUS AWARDS, INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING:

1st in state - costume design

Lauren Haskins

SEnior scholarship

Giselle Guillen

2nd in state - monologue

Riley Polanski

Ellis jordan scholarship to the international thespian festival

Eliza Anderson

Students receiving superior ratings (top 4% in state). qualify for international thespian festivals (nationals)

monologue

Jeremiah Alarcon
Sydney Crozier
Caden Hengesbach
Kristen Koepp
Riley Polanski
Xavier Reynoso
Grace Rhodes
Kyle Tchalian
Neema Shahriari
Katie Stanford

musical theatre dance

Lydia Brown
Sophia Kachlik
Sierra LaRue
​Miranda Michno

Stage Management

Giselle Guillen

Make up design

Morgan Lui

Costume design

Lauren Haskins

Costume construction

Lauren Haskins

duet acting

Caden Hengesbach & Neema Shahriari
​Kyle Tchalian & Shawn Clayton

Solo Musical

Jeremiah Alarcon
Lydia Brown
Sophie Michaelson
Riley Polanski
Dixie Reese
Xavier Reynoso
​Faith Teuber

Callbacks (top %1 in the state)

Monologue

Jeremiah Alarcon
Grace Rhodes
Riley Polanski
Neema Shahriari

Duet Acting

Kyle Tchalian & Shawn Clayton
Ronit Kathuria & Vega Sherman-Seitz

SOlo Musical

Jeremiah Alarcon

there are multiple performances that occur at festival. ca Opening and closing numbers are chosen before the festival. playworks has its auditions on thursday and cast that very nght. all thespians can interview to be on a crew for both opening and closing number.

selected to perform in all ca opening and closing

Jeremiah Alarcon
Lydia Brown
Sierra LaRue
Miranda Michno
Riley Polanski
​Xavier Reynoso

selected to perform in playworks

Ronit Kathuria

awarded for outstanding crew work

Allie Geurts - Front of House
Natalie Nguyen - Media
Lauren Haskins - Costumes
Isabel Barbee - Audio

selected to work all ca productions technical crews (top 1% in state)

Isabel Barbee - Audio
Miracle Garren - Audio
Eliza Anderson - Stage Management
Giselle Guillen - Stage Management
Sierra Jimenez - Scenic Painting
Rayaan Shaw - Lighting
Eila Planinc - Lighting
Dillon Lopez - Lighting
Jenna Watje - Front of House
Paige Thielke - Front of House
Allie Geurts - Front of House
Natalie Nguyen - Media
Morgan Lui - Media
Shawn Clayton - Costumes
​Kyle Tchalian - Costumes
Sierra LaRue - Choreography
Sydney Crozier - Assistant Director

STUDENTS STATEWIDE ARE ELECTED TO REPRESENT THE CALIFORNIA STATE THESPIANS AND ORGANIZE THE NEXT YEAR'S EVENTS, SUCH AS THE CA LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE AND THESPIAN FESTIVAL.

Elected to the 2018-2019 ca state student thespian board (12 students statewide)

Candace Coe 
Sydney Crozier

honored for serving on the ca state thespian board 2017-2018

Candace Coe
​Riley Polanski