- Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
- Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
Booker T. Shakespearean honors...
For Immediate Release:
April 5, 2018 — Emir Price, student of Charlton Gavitt from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts won first place at the Dallas Branch National Shakespeare Competition on February 24, 2018.Emir Price will travel to New York City along with 56 other contestants from around the country to participate in the English in Action National Shakespeare Competition at Lincoln Center Theater in New York City on April 23, 2018.
As part of the competition, students perform a monologue and recite a sonnet from Shakespeare. Competitors are judged on their understanding of their selected texts and on their ability to communicate their interpretation to the audience. The competition is judged by local teachers and members of the theater community.
Emir Price, as the winner of the ESU Dallas Branch competition, will travel to New York City to represent their local community in the National Shakespeare Competition at the world-renowned Lincoln Center Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on April 23. On stage, each student will perform before a panel of distinguished judges as well as their fellow contestants. Based on their performances, seven to ten students will advance to a final round. Those finalists, performing their selections along with a cold reading of a monologue, compete for the first place award, which is an all-expenses-paid scholarship to attend the Young Actors’ Summer School for two weeks at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
“Our 56 finalists have been selected from more than 20,000 students who performed at competitions throughout the country. We extend a heartfelt thank you to the teachers who go well outside the hours of their school day to support their students and Shakespeare. Teachers and their students are the foundation of the National Shakespeare Competition and English in Action’s many other educational programs.” Christopher Broadwell, Executive Director at English in Action
English in Action National Shakespeare Competition is a performance-based education program in which high school students nationwide read, analyze, perform, and recite Shakespeare’s works. Through the program, students develop communication skills and an appreciation of the power of language and literature. In the Competition’s three progressive levels, students perform in their own schools, at English-Speaking Union Branch competitions, and at the National Shakespeare Competition at Lincoln Center Theater in New York City. Since 1983, more than 300,000 students of all backgrounds have taken advantage of this opportunity to bring the timeless works of Shakespeare to life and learn to express his words with understanding, feeling, and clarity.
For additional information regarding the National Shakespeare Competition, please visit www.shakespearecompetition.org.