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CONGRATULATIONS to PCHS's 2025 FALL MUSICAL, The Sound of Music, earning six awards at the Iowa High School Musical Theatre Awards Showcase on May 28, 2026 at the Des Moines Performing Arts Center--including an Outstanding Overall Technical and Creative Achievement Award, the highest tech award possible.  

PCHS was be honored with the following awards:

      > Outstanding Overall Technical and Creative Achievement
      > Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role - Bella De Haan (Maria)
      > Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role - Jenna Vande Zande (Liesl)
      > Special Recognition for Performance in a Leading Role - Benjamin Spronk (Capt von Trapp)
      > Special Recognition for Performance in a Leading Role - Ella Hodgell (Elsa Schraeder)
      > Jenna Vande Zande and Bella De Haan nominated to audition as Iowa representatives for Nationals in New York City

CONGRATULATIONS TO PC's 2025 One-Act performance of The Other Room  on being selected as Outstanding Performers at the IHSSA State Large Group competition, receiving an All-State nomination and qualifying them to perform at the All-State Festival on Saturday February 22, 2025 at Iowa State University.  These students represent an elite group of only 8 One Act teams across the state of Iowa, selected out of over 160 teams originally entered in the IHSSA Large Group event.  In addition, the One-Act also received the prestigious ‘Critic’s Choice’ traveling banner, recognizing them as 2025's top one-act play for the entire state of Iowa. 

The 2010 One-Act Play Cast, Orphan Trains, with their Critic's Choice Banner

The 2025 One-Act Play Cast, The Other Room, with their Critic's Choice Banner

FOR THE THIRTEENTH TIME IN EIGHTEEN YEARS, Pella Christian's One-Act plays have been chosen as one of only eight schools across Iowa to perform at the IHSSA All-State Festival on the campus of Iowa State University!  Selected as Outstanding Performers and receiving All-State Nominations in the State Large Group competitions qualified the school each year for the state's highest honor of representing Iowa's best in high school theatre.  These students represented an elite group of only eight one-acts selected each year out of over 150 one-acts originally entered every year in Iowa's IHSSA Large Group event!   In addition, the 2025 One-Act play, The Other Room, and the 2010 One-Act play, Orphan Trains, were awarded the "Critic's Choice" top honor over all the one-acts performed at the Festival that year.  PC's Theatre Troupe entries have included:  The Other Room (2025), The Women of Lockerbie (2023), Elephant's Graveyard (2022), Thieves' Carnival (2021), Rags (2020), The Yellow Boat (2018), The Other Room (2017), The Giver  (2016), The Diviners  (2015), Blood Brothers  (2013), Orphan Trains  (2010), Rags  (2009), and The Yellow Boat  (2008).