CDH Theater Earns 11 Spotlight Awards

May 29, 2018

For its performance of 42nd Street, the Cretin-Derham Hall theater program, under the direction of Ms. Katie Kreitzer, has received multiple honors from Spotlight Showcase, an educational initiative of the Hennepin Theatre Trust that honors and supports Minnesota high school musical theater programs and students.

The spring production received the following honors for its achievements:

Group Awards 

• Outstanding Overall Production
• Outstanding Overall Performance
• Outstanding Achievement in Musical Theater
• Outstanding Technical Team
• Outstanding Movement Dance by an Ensemble

Outstanding Individual Awards

Will Dusek as Billy Lawlor

Emma Schuld as Anytime Annie

Troy Gleason as Stage Manager 

Honorable Mention Individual Awards

Moses Young as Julian Marsh

Abraham Teuber as Bert Bary

Hunter Hansen as Andy Lee

Evaluators’ Shout-outs

Clare Connelly 

Kerry Schneeman

Annie Stang

Kevin Downes

Spotlight Performance

Spotlight Showcase, the culmination of the year-long program, invites honorees to take center stage and perform before live audiences in one of the Trust’s historic theatres. Cretin-Derham Hall will perform in the annual Spotlight Showcase on June 12, 2018, at the historic State Theatre in Minneapolis. Online ticket sales are available.