Orange High School Pit Orchestra nominated for Playhouse Square Dazzle Award
PEPPER PIKE, Ohio — The Orange High School Pit Orchestra from the school’s production of “All Shook Up” in April was recently nominated for Best Student Orchestra in the 2022 Playhouse Square Dazzle Awards.
Members of the orchestra include Trey Davis, Aidan Stearns, Daniel Pukanski, Lex Stearns, Ari Rubin, Leah Heasley, Sophia Stepanyan, Meghan Zuccaro, Sadie Meyer, Lily Apanius, Jesse Hodgson, Edward Fatica, Catherine Snyder-Lovera, Tessa Kemelhar, Benjamin Scheps, Michael Yard, Jack Arch, Logan Kaplan, Dalton Phillips, Gwendolyn Darrah, Samuel Dupont, Owen Lenson, Daniel Roberts and Bralyn Smith.
The orchestra is directed by Jake Robinson. Dalton Phillips, who plays keyboard, served as music director for the production.
The Dazzle Awards, presented by Pat and John Chapman, will be held May 21 at the Connor Palace at Playhouse Square in Cleveland.
The awards were created to inspire and honor excellence in high school musical theater and recognize the importance of musical theater and arts education within the Northeast Ohio community.
A panel of independent adjudicators attends one production at each participating school and provides educational feedback and scores to determine the nominees and awards in each category.
Orange High School has received multiple nominations since its first year participating in the Dazzle Awards program in 2017.
Staci Adelman Vincent, left, an assistant in the Orange Schools communications office, displays the Best of the Best award in photography that she received from the Ohio School Public Relations Association. At right is Barbara Hunter, executive director of the National School Public Relations Association. (Photo Courtesy of Orange City Schools)
Vincent earns award
Staci Adelman Vincent, an assistant in the Orange Schools communications office, received the 2022 Best of the Best award in photography April 28 from the Ohio School Public Relations Association (OHSPRA).
Vincent was presented with the award at the organization’s annual spring conference by OHSPRA directors Scott Marshall from Springsboro Schools and Kari Basson from Kettering City Schools and OHSPRA President Lou DeVincentis, director of communications for Orange Schools.
Her winning photo, titled “Private Eyes,” showcased Moreland Hills Elementary School students using their sleuthing skills to solve a fictitious “Whodunit.”
She also earned an OHSPRA Power PRo recognition, a new designation members can earn by participating in OHSPRA events and activities.
This was Vincent’s eighth Best of the Best award in photography since joining the Orange Schools communications department 13 years ago. She also earned three OHSPRA 2022 Awards of Excellence in photography, videography and special publications and has received many OHSPRA awards in previous years, as well.
Vincent, an Orange councilwoman, is an Orange High School graduate and a former Orange Alumni Association president. She is also former coach of the Orange Lionettes.
She lives with her two sons and her husband, Leland, in Orange.
Excel TECC award winners
Nineteen Orange High School students were recognized for 26 awards this spring in the Excel TECC awards program.
OHS seniors Macy Fletcher in Performing Arts Academy, Angel Ononogbo in Medical Technologies and Margot Sanders in Studio Art and Design each received the Excel TECC Outstanding Senior Award. Margot also received a Silver Award in National Scholastic Art and Writing, as well as being a Top 25 winner in the Ohio Governor Show.
OHS seniors Basma Alhaddad in Medical Technologies, Lawrence Huston in CADD Engineering and Emma Snyder-Lovera in Performing Arts Academy each received the Excel TECC Senior Departmental Award. Lawrence also received a bronze medal in Team-Skills USA state competition in Additive Manufacturing.
OHS seniors Maxx Abramson, Jessica Brown, Nicolas Lazar and Jordyn Zucker in Marketing, along with Sharrae Henderson in Business Academy, were all inducted into the National Technical Honor Society.
OHS juniors Leroy Blasier in CADD Engineering, Sabrina Fellinger in Performing Arts Academy, Ethan Jaffe in Interactive Media, Alexa Konover in Teacher Education, Alessandra Minotti in Digital Arts and Technology, Taylor Silverstein in Medical Technologies and Samuel Wainkroot in Medical Technologies also were inducted into the National Technical Honor Society.
Ethan was also recognized with an Excel TECC Junior Departmental Award, along with Alessandra and Taylor. Ethan received a Silver Medal in Skills USA state competition in photography, as well.
OHS junior Isaiah Jackson in CADD Engineering earned a second-place Team Scholarship Award.
Excel TECC is a career technical consortium serving the school districts of Aurora, Beachwood, Chagrin Falls, Mayfield, Orange, Richmond Heights, Solon, South Euclid-Lyndhurst, West Geauga and Willoughby-Eastlake, offering more than 25 unique programs.
Excel TECC’s primary objective is to prepare students to enter a four-year college, a two-year technical school or the career of their choosing.
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