St. Lawrence Secondary School Drama Teams

The Journal Cornwall
16 March 2016

Two teams from St. Lawrence Secondary School (SLSS) picked up a total of five awards over the weekend at the Sears Seaway District Drama Festival. SLSS teams entered two plays in the festival: Danny, King of the Basement and Mere Mortals, winning two awards of excellence, two certificates of merit, and an outstanding production award, said Al Merizzi, a drama teacher at SLSS.

The team that performed Mere Mortals will now advance to the Sears East Regional Drama Festival in Ottawa on April 11-16 at Woodroffe High School. The awards won by SLSS Students for their productions of Danny, King of the Basement, were Maddie Thompson, certificate of merit, direction; full company, certificate of merit; Jasper Ross award of excellence, individual performance; and Blair Petryna, Austin Wile and Nick Sauvé for cast ensemble, award of excellence.

Pictured back row, left to right, are Emily Robertson, Blair Petryna, Valeria Oropeza, Andrew Crockett, Jared Williams, and Ian Brissard.

Pictured in the front row left to right, are Austin Wile, Kaila Hildebrand-Moeller, Nick Sauvé, Brendan Cain, Jasper Ross, Sean Legroulx, and St. Lawrence Secondary School drama teacher Alain Merizzi.