Princeton Day School was recently named the winner of Stage Directions Magazine’s 2014 High School Theater Honors Program in the Northeast. This program recognizes the most extraordinary high school drama programs nationwide.
The magazine states: “Dynamic production values. Innovative material tackled by fearless young artists. Forward-thinking, artistically committed instructors. These qualities are shared in spades by the winners of the Stage Directions 2014 High School Theatre Honors Program winners. Chosen from a pool of many excellent applicants, our honorees distinguish themselves in particular this year by continually challenging their students to take their dramatic work farther than they ever have before—with incredibly impressive results.”
On winning this honor, Artist in Residence Stan Cahill notes, “We enjoy the position of being the first school from New Jersey to win this honor. Additionally, we are now positioned to be a school with access to technology and scripts before they are released to the national educational theater community.”
This honor comes on the heels of some impressive accolades for the PDS Theater program. In 2013, the program was nominated for eight New Jersey Theater awards, and won two for their production of Anon(ymous). This year, the production of Urinetown received an impressive 13 Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Awards and won seven awards, leading the state in awards.
The winners of the Stage Directions High School Theater Honors Program in the other regions were as follows: Midwest, the Warren Consolidated School of Performing Arts; Northwest, Gresham High School; Southeast, Fort Lauderdale High School; and Southwest, Chaparral High School.
