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2002 - 2003 San Diego Playbill
Youth "Billie" Awards
 Last June, San Diego Playbill announced the winners of the First Annual San Diego Playbill
Youth "Billie" Awards to honor outstanding work in local youth theatre. That year,
17 youth productions were reviewed from 8 different youth theatre companies.
Which made this year twice as difficult to pick the winners, having reviewed double the shows with 34
youth productions from 18 theatres. Thank you all for your incredible work and
all the unforgettable entertainment over the past year!
In addition to the youth who performed in the youth theatre companies, any minor (under age 18) who performed at any theatre was also considered for the awards, as well as the adults who participated in the youth theatre productions backstage (directors, set designers, costume designers, etc.).
Below is a complete list of this year's winners. A new category for "Artist
of the Year" has been added to the awards this year to honor one person who
has excelled in several roles throughout the year.
The winners will be formally presented with their awards at a ceremony honoring their accomplishments
on Monday, June 23 at the Garfield
Theatre in the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center located in La Jolla.
Home of J*Company for the past several years, they are generously donating the
use of their state-of-the-art, 495-seat theatre space, as well as their
professional assistance, for this year's festivities.
If you are interested in attending the awards ceremony, please click here for more details and RSVP information.
Adult Awards
Rob Hopper
San Diego Playbill
And the winners are ...
Outstanding Production:
Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat directed by Jason Russell
(Christian Youth Theater)
Once
On This Island directed by Michael Anthony (San Diego Junior Theatre)
Les
Misérables directed by Monica Hogue Hall (Carlsbad High School)
Artist of the Year:
Lauren
Campbell (Kim MacAfee in Bye
Bye Birdie, Peter Pan in Peter
Pan, and Eponine in Les
Misérables)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical:
Josh Breckenridge as Albert Peterson in Bye
Bye Birdie (Moonlight Stage Productions)
Adam Covalt as Seymour in
Little Shop of Horrors (J*Company)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical:
Karen Gorodzinsky as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors (J*Company)
Chelsea Cree Groen as Annie in Annie
(Starlight Musical Theatre)
Christina Hambrick as the Narrator in Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Christian Youth Theater)
Jacqueline
Lopez as Ti Moune in Once
On This Island (San Diego Junior Theatre)
Brooke McKinney as Ariel in The
Little Mermaid (Christian Youth Theater)
Phoebe Silva as Reno Sweeney in Anything
Goes (Rancho Buena Vista High School)
Sarah Vincelett as Ruby in Dames
at Sea (Youth Summerstock Theatre) and Polly Browne in The
Boy Friend (Granite Hills Acting Workshop)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy or Drama:
Jarryd
Davis as Charlie Baker in The
Foreigner (Granite Hills Acting Workshop)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy or Drama:
Christine
Garver as Henrietta Trefusis in Smash (La Jolla High School)
Abbey
Grace Howe as Helen Keller in The
Miracle Worker (North Coast Repertory Theatre)
Samantha
Peterson as Helena in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream (Moonlight’s Educational Outreach Team 2003)
Katie Reynolds as Grandma Vanderhof in You
Can’t Take It With You (La Jolla High School)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical:
Jason
Araujo as Ali Hakim in Oklahoma!
(Youth Summerstock Theatre)
Kevin Klauber as Pizza Guy in Making
Ambrosia (Megill & Company)
Devin
Fearn as Thenardier in Les
Misérables (Carlsbad High School)
Stephen
LaFata as the Major-General in The
Pirates of Penzance (Megill & Company)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical:
Havilah Duff as Miss Minchin in A
Little Princess (Christian Youth Theater)
Marla Kramer as Cha Cha in The
Little Mermaid (Christian Youth Theater)
Lydia Lesar as Ruth in The
Pirates of Penzance (Megill & Company)
Catherine
McEniry as Madame Thenardier in Les
Misérables (Carlsbad High School) and as Miss Gultch/Wicked Witch in The
Wizard of Oz (Encore Youth Theatre)
Kari Miller as Mae Peterson in Bye
Bye Birdie (Moonlight Stage Productions)
Sophie Vener as Templeton in Charlotte’s
Web (J*Company)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama:
Jason Robertson as Kohlenkov in You
Can’t Take It With You (La Jolla High School)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama:
Dagny Brown as Suzanne in Dearly Departed (Point
Loma High School)
Outstanding Ensemble:
Bye
Bye Birdie directed by Renee M. Kollar (Moonlight Stage Productions)
The
Pirates of Penzance directed by Heather Megill (Megill & Company)
Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat directed by Jason Russell
(Christian Youth Theater)
Anything
Goes directed by Mark Scott (Rancho Buena Vista High School)
The
Secret Garden directed by Michael Anthony and Will Neblett and Once
On This Island directed by Michael Anthony (San Diego Junior Theatre)
Les
Misérables directed by Monica Hogue Hall (Carlsbad High School)
Little
Shop of Horrors directed by Becky Cherlin (J*Company)
Outstanding Costume Design:
Shulamit Nelson for Once
On This Island (San Diego Junior Theatre)
Outstanding Lighting Design:
Matt Novotny for The
Secret Garden (San Diego Junior Theatre)
Outstanding Set Design:
Tony Cucuzzella for Once
On This Island (San Diego Junior Theatre)
Outstanding Choreography:
Jason Russell for Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Christian Youth Theater)
Outstanding Direction:
Michael Anthony for Once
On This Island (San Diego Junior Theatre)
Ron Punit Auerbacher for Bang Bang, You’re Dead
(Actors Alliance Festival)
Hunter Kaczorowski and Annie Langer for She
Loves Me (The San Dieguito Academy)
Jason Russell for Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Christian Youth Theater)
Outstanding New Play:
Jason
Connors for Henry Wants a Renaissance (Playwrights Project)
152 Total Shows (34 youth productions)
56 Different Theatres (18 youth theatres)
46 Youth Awards Given
27 Shows received awards (Once On This Island – 6, Joseph
and Les Miserables – 5, Bye Bye Birdie – 4).
18 Theatres received awards (CYT – 8, San Diego Junior
Theatre – 8, Carlsbad High School and Moonlight – 5).
Shows Reviewed:
- Alice
in Concert (Kidz Theater)
- Annie
(Starlight Musical Theatre)*
- Anything
Goes (Coast Kids Theatre)
- Anything
Goes (Rancho Buena Vista High School)
- The
Boy Friend (Granite Hills Acting Workshop)
- Bye
Bye Birdie (Moonlight Stage Productions)
- Charlotte’s
Web (J*Company)
- Cinderella
(San Diego Junior Theatre)
- Cyrano
de Bergerac (San Diego Junior Theatre)
- Dames
at Sea (Youth Summerstock Theatre)
- Dearly
Departed (Point Loma High School)
- The
Diary of Anne Frank (Granite Hills Acting Workshop)
- Fiddler
on the Roof (J*Company)
- The
Foreigner (Granite Hills Acting Workshop)
- Grease!
(Summer Youth Theater)
- How
to Eat Like a Child (San Diego Junior Theatre)
- Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Christian Youth Theater – East
County)
- Les
Misérables (Carlsbad High School)
- The
Little Mermaid (Christian Youth Theater – North County Coastal)
- A
Little Princess (CYT-North County Coastal)
- Little
Shop of Horrors (J*Company)
- A
Midsummer Night’s Dream (Moonlight’s Educational Outreach team 2003)
- The
Miracle Worker (North Coast Repertory Theatre)*
- The
Music Man (Peter Pan Junior Theatre)
- Oklahoma!
(Youth Summerstock Theatre)
- Oliver!
(Christian Youth Theater – North County Coastal)
- Once
On This Island (Encore Youth Theatre)
- Once
On This Island (San Diego Junior Theatre)
- Once
On This Island (Spotlight Youth/Kidz Theater)
- Peter
Pan (Poway Center for the Performing Arts)*
- The
Pirates of Penzance (Megill & Company)
- The
Secret Garden (San Diego Junior Theatre)
- She
Loves Me (The San Dieguito Academy)
- Smash
(La Jolla High School)
- The
Wizard of Oz (Encore Youth Theatre)
- The
Wizard of Oz (J*Company)
- You
Can’t Take It With You (La Jolla High School)
* Not a youth production
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