Congratulations to the 2024 Heller Awards Winners!

Oh what a night 🎶 Thank you to all the students, alumni, families, educators, sponsors, and staff who helped make the 11th Annual Heller Awards for Young Artists possible!
 
Now onto what you’ve all been waiting for. Drumroll please 🥁

THE 2024 haya WINNERS ARE…

Best Choreography

Mary Poppins | Cedar Ridge High School

Best Music Direction

Urinetown | Vista Ridge High School

Best Orchestra

Urinetown | Vista Ridge High School

Best Lighting Design

Chicago: Teen Edition | Hutto High School

Vista Ridge High School in Urinetown | Photo by Henry Huey
Best Costume Design

The SpongeBob Musical | Jack C. Hays High School

Best Scenic Design

Matlida the Musical | Leander High School

Best Technical Execution

Sweeney Todd: School Edition | Round Rock High School

Best Ensemble

Mary Poppins | Cedar Ridge High School

Jack C. Hays High School in The SpongeBob Musical | Photo by Henry Huey
Best Featured Performer | Individual Category

Wyatt Gonzalez | Enjolras | Les Misérables School Edition | Bastrop High School

Best Featured Performer | Ensemble Category

Samuel Ferreira | Ensemble | Chicago: Teen Edition | Hutto High School

Company Impact Award

Seth Rivas | Lehman High School

Kira Griffin | Cedar Park High School

Sophie Gwaldo | Rouse High School

Bella Tamayo | Tom Glenn High School

Olden Lighting Grant Recipients

Tom Glenn High School

Weiss High School

NYOS Charter School

Marble Falls High School

Elgin High School

San Marcos High School

Training Scholarship Recipients

Balance Dance Studio Summer Camp | Rebekah Page | NYOS Charter School
The Dance Spot Summer Camp | Sariyah Tukes | John B. Connally High School
College Audition Package from Impact Arts | Chanse Solis | Vista Ridge High School
Texas Arts Project Summer Intensive from Impact Arts | Clair Elam | Tom Glenn High School
Texas Arts Project Summer Intensive from Impact Arts | Caleb Clemons | Elgin High School
The Macedo Unique Voice Scholarship from Adam Roberts Voice | Vitor Kvasir Larson-Parachini
The Macedo Unique Voice Scholarship from Adam Roberts Voice | Grayson Croft
The Adderley School’s Yearlong Conservatory | Caleb Clemons | Elgin High School
Savannah College of Art and Design Summer Intensive | Alia Pambrun | Bastrop High School
Savannah College of Art and Design Summer Intensive | Annie Mawson Jack C. Hays High School
Broadway Teaching Group Educator Workshop | Wes Narron | John B. Connally High School
Broadway Teaching Group Educator Workshop | Jon DeMitchell | East View High School

Student Achievement | Marketing

Natalie Berkaw | Westwood High School

Student Achievement | Design

Alexandra Villalpando | San Marcos High School

Best Supporting Performer Nominees | Photo by Henry Huey
Student Achievement | Stage Management

Charlotte Adair | Cedar Park High School

Best Supporting Performer | Male Category

Autry Bushong | Uncle Fester | The Addams Family School Edition | Rouse High School

Best Supporting Performer | Female Category

Chanse Solis | Little Sally | Urinetown | Vista Ridge High School

Best Lead Performer | Male Category

Jamias Hughes | SpongeBob SquarePants | The SpongeBob Musical | Lockhart High School

Best Lead Female Nominees | Photo by Henry Huey
Best Lead Performer | Female Category

Ava Moak | Mrs. Lovett | Sweeney Todd: School Edition | Round Rock High School

Best Direction

Sweeney Todd: School Edition | Round Rock High School

Best Production

Sweeney Todd: School Edition | Round Rock High School

Round Rock High School in Sweeney Todd: School Edition | Photo by Henry Huey

A special congratulations to Ava Moak & Jamias Hughes who are headed to the Jimmy Awards this summer! Don’t forget about us when you get famous 💖

Jimmy Award Nominees Ava Moak & Jamias Hughes with Texas Performing Arts Artistic & Executive Director Bob Bursey and 2023 Jimmy Nominee Kyra Carr | Photo by Henry Huey

We’ll see y’all in Dell Hall next year. Until then, be sure to follow @hellerawardsatx on the your social media platform of choice for show recaps, photos, videos, and all things HAYAs.

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