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National Youth Arts Winners 2011 (Western Division)
Outstanding Production:
Grease (Valley Youth Theatre, AZ)
Seussical Jr. (Desert Foothills Theater, Scottsdale, AZ)
The Wiz (Greasepaint Youtheatre, AZ)

Outstanding Production (Junior Division):
Honk! (Musical Theatre of Anthem, AZ)

Outstanding Choral Performance:
Imagine (The Most VYTal Event of the Season 2010, Valley Youth Theatre, AZ)
Phantom of the Opera Medley (Broadway Under the Stars 2010, Horizon High School, AZ)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical:
Cooper Hallstrom as Danny in Grease (Valley Youth Theatre, AZ)
Tanner Van Parys as Beast in Beauty and the Beast (Desert Stages Theatre, Scottsdale, AZ)
Nick Wren as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof (Xavier/Brophy Theatre, AZ)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical:
Asijah Adolph as Dorothy in The Wiz (Greasepaint Youtheatre, AZ)
Lindsey Brown as Gertrude in Seussical Jr. (Spotlight Youth Theatre, AZ)
Maddie Farnsworth as Jo March in Little Women (Actor’s Youth Theatre, AZ)
Jamie Grossman as Millie Dillmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie (Spotlight Youth Theatre, AZ)
Haley Johnson as Gertrude in Seussical Jr. (Desert Foothills Theater, AZ)
Blakeley Knox as Ariel Moore in Footloose (Young Actors Guild, AR)
Megan Mahoney as Peter Pan in Peter Pan (Musical Theatre of Anthem, AZ)
Candice Thomasson as Belle in Beauty and the Beast (Sandra Day O’Connor High School, AZ)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play:
Wes Clark as Mr. Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (Texas Academy of Performing Arts, TX)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play:
Andie Auth as Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (Texas Academy of Performing Arts, TX)
Megan Hanks as Teagan in The Love and the Hate (Creative Stages Youth Theatre, AZ)
Morgan Migliorisi as Queen in Snow White (Creative Stages Youth Theatre, AZ)

Outstanding Lead Actor – Junior Division:
Jonah Carlson as Aaron the Minstrel in The Emperor’s New Clothes (East Valley Children’s Theatre, AZ)
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