New Albany Theatre Arts
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New Albany High School Theatre Arts is an award winning, nationally recognized theatre program in Indiana.
New Albany High School Theatre excels with a 120 year old history! One of the oldest public high school drama departments in the state, the NAHS Theatre Department has won numerous regional and national recognitions after its founding by Mr. Tom Weatherston. In 2004 and 2020, the theatre program won the “Outstanding High School Theatre” award given by the International Thespian Society. The NAHS Thespians were featured in three full pages of the NEW YORK TIMES arts section highlighting high school theatre and featured again in 2020. The school has been featured regularly as a main stage performing school at the International Thespian Festival (ten appearances, most recently in June of 2022) and several NAHS Theatre alumni have gone on to become Broadway and London West End performers. Former director David Longest and the school were awarded the National American History Award by the D.A.R. for the Signature Event production of LEWIS AND CLARK, an original musical written and produced in 2003. In 2007, alumnus Sara King won the Presidential Arts Scholar award and performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. New Albany High School Theatre was the subject of a recent documentary shown on both SHOWTIME and THE MOVIE CHANNEL cable television networks. Josh Dallas, a 1997 NAHS theater alumni, co-starred in the mega-million dollar movie THOR and can be seen on ABC's ONCE UPON A TIME. |
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Awards
2001: High School Premier of Showboat.
2003: Former director David Longest and the school were awarded the National American History Award by the D.A.R. for the Signature Event production of LEWIS AND CLARK, an original musical written and produced by David Longest and James Stanton.
2004: Beauty and the Beast Pilot production. Outstanding High School Theatre Award from the International Thespian Society.
2005: Featured in three full pages of the NEW YORK TIMES arts section highlighting high school theatres across the country
2007: Alumnus Sara King won the Presidential Arts Scholar award and performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
2007: Pilot production of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL. New Albany High School Theatre was the subject of a recent documentary shown on both SHOWTIME and THE MOVIE CHANNEL cable television networks that also featured Floyd Central and Jeffersonville High School Theatre Arts programs.
2015: Katie West selected as one of 20 students from across the nation to mount An Evening With...The Music of Alan Menken to open the 2015 International Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska.
2017, 2018, 2019: Broadway World Regional Award Winners
2020: Pilot of My Fair Lady, Student Edition, International Thespian Festival Main Stage Production, and New York Times Feature Article.
2021: Indiana State Gold Honor Troupe and Indiana State Distinguished Senior Award: Madeline Fisher
2022: Disney's Beauty and the Beast Pilot, International Thespian Festival Main Stage Production
TEN International Thespian Festival Appearances with shows such as PIRATES OF PENZANCE with alumnus Josh Dallas, CRAZY FOR YOU with alumni Tyler Bliss and Clair Longest, and HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL with alumni Sara King and Adam Blake Raque and Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST IN 2022.
2003: Former director David Longest and the school were awarded the National American History Award by the D.A.R. for the Signature Event production of LEWIS AND CLARK, an original musical written and produced by David Longest and James Stanton.
2004: Beauty and the Beast Pilot production. Outstanding High School Theatre Award from the International Thespian Society.
2005: Featured in three full pages of the NEW YORK TIMES arts section highlighting high school theatres across the country
2007: Alumnus Sara King won the Presidential Arts Scholar award and performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
2007: Pilot production of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL. New Albany High School Theatre was the subject of a recent documentary shown on both SHOWTIME and THE MOVIE CHANNEL cable television networks that also featured Floyd Central and Jeffersonville High School Theatre Arts programs.
2015: Katie West selected as one of 20 students from across the nation to mount An Evening With...The Music of Alan Menken to open the 2015 International Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska.
2017, 2018, 2019: Broadway World Regional Award Winners
2020: Pilot of My Fair Lady, Student Edition, International Thespian Festival Main Stage Production, and New York Times Feature Article.
2021: Indiana State Gold Honor Troupe and Indiana State Distinguished Senior Award: Madeline Fisher
2022: Disney's Beauty and the Beast Pilot, International Thespian Festival Main Stage Production
TEN International Thespian Festival Appearances with shows such as PIRATES OF PENZANCE with alumnus Josh Dallas, CRAZY FOR YOU with alumni Tyler Bliss and Clair Longest, and HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL with alumni Sara King and Adam Blake Raque and Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST IN 2022.
