WOODSTOWN — It's a first for the Wolverines!
Colin Schmidt, 17, a junior at Woodstown High School, was honored with the Student Achievement Award from the Papermill Playhouse Rising Star Awards — which honors the best in high school theatre each year.
Schmidt served as the stage manager for this season's spring musical "BRIGADOON."
During the course of the production, Schmidt oversaw multiple processes associated with the musical, including auditions, pre-production, rehearsals, set construction and painting, lighting, and sound design. He also oversaw the technical crew team, made entirely of students, who ran each performance from 'curtain up' to 'curtain call.'
The event was held Tuesday, June 11. Schmidt was one of 10 recipients of the award, of which 20 students from across the Garden State were nominated.
The Papermill Playhouse Rising Star Awards were founded in 1996 "to encourage and reward exceptional accomplishments in the production of New Jersey high school musicals."
The Rising Star Awards is a New Jersey statewide high school recognition program and has been replicated in several regions nationwide with Paper Mill Playhouse’s assistance.
It is the most prestigious award an N.J. high school student involved in their theatre program can receive.
Woodstown High School's theatre department has been operating non-stop since the late 1800s. The program celebrated the100th anniversary since the first musical performed at WHS, "ALL AT SEA," an operetta produced in 1924. This year, the program also celebrate 40 years of continuous production of musicals on the WHS stage, the first being "BABES IN ARMS" in 1984.
The Woodstown Theatre Department 2024 season featured the fall play "Little Women," and the junior musical "Snow White Musicapalooza" in addition to "Brigadoon."
Schmidt is expected to return to stage manage in the 2024-2025 academic year for next season's spring musical which has not yet been announced.
Congrats Colin!!
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