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Troupe #3464 News
Meet Brooke Carmody '25, one of our top theatre students from the class of 2025! Brooke was our inaugural 2024 Technician of the Year and during her time at MD she participated in numerous theatre courses, shows with a passion for tech, and served on leadership council as our Thespian Officer 24-25. Brooke earned 205 thespian points which is the equivalent of 2,050 hours of theatre activity! Brooke is continuing her theatre education at USC where she is majoring in Stage Management.
Meet Grace Henze '25, one of our top theatre students from the class of 2025! Grace was our 2024 Thespian of the Year and during her time at MD she participated in numerous theatre courses, shows with a particular passion for musicals, and served on leadership council as our Advocacy Officer 24-25. Grace earned 213 thespian points which is the equivalent of 2,130 hours of theatre activity!
Meet Riley Lewis '24, the 2024 Thespian of the Year at Mater Dei! In her time at MDHS, Riley served as the Theatre Advocacy Officer 22-23 and the Thespian Officer 23-24. Her senior year she was selected to join the elite squad of State Thespian Officers where she organized and lead numerous events and shaped the course of Thespian history! She won the 23-24 Gai Jones Scholarship and the 21-22 Ellis Jordan Scholarship, both awarded by California State Thespians! Watch her impact video below, which was shared at the joint California Educational Theatre Association/Educational Theatre Association conference in Fall 2022!
Meet London Coco Griffin '22 who was chosen to represent Mater Dei High School's Troupe #3464 and California State Thespians as one of 21-22's State Thespian Officers!
Thespian News
Broadway legend Bernadette Peters was honored by the Educational Theatre Foundation (ETF) at the annual star-studded Thespians Go Hollywood Gala held on Monday, November 18, 2019 at The Avalon in Hollywood, California. Over 300 people were on hand to help raise more than $180,000 that will support ETF’s national theatre education programs for schools in need.
In addition to the stars participating in the tribute, as is traditional for the Thespians Go Hollywood event, local students, including our very own Annemarie Verkuylen ’20, who are members of the International Thespian Society (ITS), were also tapped to perform. They set the special mood first thing, opening with “A Million Dreams” from The Greatest Showman, got everyone going with “Broadway Baby” from Follies, and sent everyone home humming “Raise You Up/Just Be” from Kinky Boots. You can see Annemarie front and center below!
Click here to see a clip of Thespians Go Hollywood 2019!
