2019 Annual Conference

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2019 Festival Results

TTA Distinguished achievement award 2019 recipient

Ashlee Latimer

TTA Scholarship Winners

ACTING
1st Place: Abigail Rider
2nd Place: Malaki Cummings

TECHNICAL
1st Place: Hannah Loftus
2nd Place: Hannah Blankenship

Secondary School Festival

1st Place: Nolensville High School, Scenes from Metamorphoses
2nd Place: Stewarts Creek High School, The Old Man and the Old Moon
3rd Place: Northwest High School, Medea

Best Direction: Northwest Hight School, Medea
Technical Achievement: Stewarts Creek High School, The Old Man and the Old Moon
Best Ensemble: Nolensville High School, Scenes from Metamorphoses

Best Actor: Gideon McManus
Best Actress: Kiana Hickey
Best Supporting Actor: Nolan Henry
Best Supporting Actress: Rebekah Williams

ALL STAR CAST
American Tall Tales - Tyler Whitt and Alia Calleum, Providence Christian Academy
The Old Man and the Old Moon - Cason Smith and Sam Dedrick, Stewarts Creek High School
Macbeth that Goes Wrong - Sophia McKanna and Caleb Fanning, Wilson Central High School
Medea - Alyssa Sianis and Jonathan Ball, Northwestern High School
And… - Malaki Cummings and Nia Watkins, Cleveland High School
You Don’t Know Me - Annteria Evans and Mekhi Jones, The Howard School
Scenes from Metamorphoses - Haley Massey and Sam Skelley, Nolensville High School
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - MK Miller, Jaiden Hicksman, Chester County High School

INDIVIDUAL EVENTS
Best Male Actor: Simon Railsback
Best Female Actor: Caitlyn Moody
Best Duet Performance: Caitlyn Moody and Gianna Sasmore

2019 Guest Artist

Knoxville native Ashlee Latimer left her Rocky Top roots for the Big Apple and has found great success along the way. A graduate of Bearden High School and the University of Tennessee, Ashlee found her passion for theatre in high school and served as the first intern for the Children’s theatre of Knoxville, as well as their first student director. After moving to New York in 2016, Ashlee became involved in the Underrepresented Producer Initiative, founded by producer Hunter Arnold, through which she won a Tony Award in 2018 as a co-producer of Once on This Island. The Underrepresented Producer Initiative provides commercial producing access and training for groups historically underrepresented in the Broadway community. In addition to her success with Once on This Island, Ashlee has also co-produced The Jungle on the West End and The Inheritance on Broadway. Currently, she oversees creative development for Tony and Olivier Award-winning producer Hunter Arnold’s company, TBD Theatricals.