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CONGRATULATIONS to Mia Andringa (Storytelling), Abby Dart (Solo Musical Theatre), Laurey Johnson (Storytelling and Improv) and Trent Van Gilst (Lit Program) on being selected as Outstanding Performers at the 2022 IHSSA State Individual Events competition, receiving All-State Nominations and qualifying to perform at the All-State Festival on March 28, 2022 at the University of Northern Iowa. These students represent an elite group of only 400 students to have been selected out of nearly 9,000 students who started competition at the District level.

CONGRATULATIONS TO TWO PC LARGE GROUP EVENTS on being selected as Outstanding Performers at the 2022 IHSSA Large Group competition, both receiving All-State Nominations and qualifying them to perform at the All-State Speech Festival.

Readers Theatre performance of The Long View

One Act performance of Elephant's Graveyard

These groups represent ONE of only 12 Readers Theatre and 8 One Acts from across the state of Iowa who actually were selected to perform at the All-State Festival!

The 2020 Readers Theatre Cast, And Others, with their Critic's Choice Banner

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

FOR FIFTEEN YEARS IN A ROW, students in Pella Christian's Large Group events have been selected as Outstanding Performers, receiving All-State Nominations from the State Large Group competitions. These selections qualify the school each year for the state's highest honor of representing Iowa's best in high school theatre at the IHSSA All-State Festival on the campus of Iowa State University! Only eight one-act teams (out of over 150 teams), 12 Readers Theatre teams (out of nearly 250 teams), 20 Choral Reader teams (out of nearly 180 teams), and 20 Musical Theatre teams (out of over 300 teams) from across Iowa perform at the Festival each year. In addition, the 2020 Readers Theatre was awarded the "Critic's Choice" top honor over all the Readers Theatres performed at the Festival that year and the 2010 One-Act play was awarded the "Critic's Choice" top honor over all the one-acts performed at the Festival that year. PC's Large Group Outstanding Performances have included:

2022: Elephant's Graveyard (One-Act)

The Long View (Readers Theatre)

2021: Thieves' Carnival (One-Act)

2020: And Others (Readers Theatre) --Critic's Choice

And (Choral Readers)

Rags (One-Act)

2019: Mirrors (Readers Theatre)

West Side Story (Musical Theatre)

Water Under the Bridge (Short Film)

The Tell-Tale Heart (Choral Readers)

2018: The Yellow Boat (One-Act)

Dark Road (Readers Theatre)

Newsies (Musical Theatre)

2017: The Other Room (One-Act)

Fire Exit (Readers Theatre)

Scarlet Pimpernel (Musical Theatre)

Supermarket Sweethearts (Short Film)

2016: The Giver (One-Act)

One Lane Bridge (Readers Theatre)

West Side Story (Musical Theatre)

2015: The Diviners (One-Act)

2014: I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Readers Theatre)

2013: Blood Brothers (One-Act)

A Piece of My Heart (Readers Theatre)

2012: The Other Room (Choral Readers)

2011: This is a Test (Readers Theatre)

2010: Orphan Trains (One-Act) --Critic's Choice

2009: Rags (One-Act)

2008: The Yellow Boat (One-Act)