Area Students Win Theater Honors

After a walk down the red carpet it was on to honors inside for high school performers from the local area Sunday at the 2013 Cappies Awards.

The annual awards honor student actors, technicians, musicians, design and theater critics in the greater Philadelphia region.

Thirty-seven public and private schools in the city and surrounding counties are nominated and awarded by student theater critics. The critics themselves are also among the award nominees and winners presented with trophies. Before the show at the Upper Darby Performing Arts Center at Upper Darby High School, nominees walked the red carpet in formal wear and in some cases in costume from shows and musicals presented during the current school year.

Springfield High School won the Cappie for Best Play for the school's production of Our Town. But several Marple and Newtown locals took home awards too.

•  Maria Burke, won Best Lead Actress in a Play, for Episcopal Academy's The Love of Three Oranges.
• Margaret LeBoeuf won Best Featured Actress in a Play, for Episcopal Academy's The Love of Three Oranges.
• Brady McManus, Melina Walling and Sophie Walker, won for Best Sound, for Episcopal Academy's The Love of Three Oranges.
• Becca Hughes, won Best Female Vocalist, for Delaware County Christian's The Sound of Music.

Delaware County schools had 10 winners, according to the Delaware County Daily Times.

"I was really excited,” Becca Hughes told the Delco Times. “Especially since it’s my senior year.”

This was the eighth annual Philadelphia Cappies. The Critics Awards Program  started 14 years ago in the Washington, DC National Capital area.

Read more about the awards and other winners here on the Delaware County Daily Times.