Date:  August 8, 2002 
Contact: Irene Cromer
(703) 791-8720

 Woodbridge Senior High School Cappie Award winner Alan Chan and Cappie nominee Emily Perkins headed to the Hollywood Hills in July to participate in a month-long theater workshop. Chan received the Cappie Award for best male vocalist. 

 To be selected for the Cappies Hollywood Theater Company, ten student actors from Ohio, Oregon, Texas and Virginia competed against other Cappie Award winners - theater arts students recognized for excellence by high school theater critics.  Featured in an article in the Los Angeles Times on July 18, Chan and Perkins, 2002 graduates, performed in three musicals staged by theater professionals at the John Raitt Theatre.  Working 12 hours a day, the actors performed in “MaKiddo,” “Freethemusic.Com,” and “A Tribute to Richard Rodgers.”    

 Two students from the Center for the Fine and Performing Arts Specialty Program performed in local theater companies.  Ryan Fearson performed in Cherry Red’s production of “Schoolgirl Figure,” at the Metro Café in Washington, D.C., and Taylor Puruczky recently performed in the Lazy Susan Dinner Theater’s musical, “State Fair.”