This past weekend, thirty-three Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School students participated in a jam-packed weekend in Lansing, MI, at the 2023 Michigan Thespian festival. The event was full of performance and technical competitions, over 100 workshops taught by theatre professionals, Broadway veterans, and University professors, college meetings, other schools presenting their shows, and so much more.
With over 1600 theatre students from across the state, the students represented Cranbrook in the competition very well.
Here are the competition results:
EXCELLENT ratings
Monologue – Joel Kwiatkowski
Duet Acting – Lee Gold & Arielle Olkhovsky
Solo Musical Theatre – Lee Gold
Duet Musical Theatre – Anastasia Nevelev & Anna Schultz
Group Musical Theatre – Anna Schultz, Jack Stoll, Margaux Kotcher, Arielle Olkhovsky, Anastasia Nevelev, Joel Kwiatkowski
Theatre Marketing – Fia Vainner
Stage Management – Val Nguyen
SUPERIOR ratings (the highest rating available)
Monologue – Arden Baker
Solo Musical Theatre – Margaux Kotcher
Duet Musical Theatre – Jack Stoll & Bella Gerlants-Mavashev
Says Cranbrook Schools Director of Theatre Daniel Dobrovich, “Our theatre program is a strong one, and it’s all because of the friendship and kindness that these students show each other.”