Washington High School’s musical theatre speech group recently received a Division I rating and has now been announced as a recipient of All-State honors. The group performed “Finding Neverland” about the man who wrote Peter Pan and it was directed by Washington Middle School choir director Jonathan Runaas. Speaking of his team, he said they put in a lot of work to create a wonderful musical theater piece and they’ve earned their trip to All-State.

The students include Logan Hanson, Cale Rausch, Lena Adams, Libby Schnicker and Gracie Cleverly. They are a non-performing group, meaning they’ve been invited to the All-State Festival in Ames later this month to receive their award but they will not perform at that time.

One Act Play: Viral directed by Lynn Loula
Lena Adam
Nayra Lujano
Kaitlin Roush
Libby Schnicker
Abby Schnicker
Grace Miller
Rio Lujano
Kyle Schindler
Cody Chalupa
Jose Reyes
Chloe Schlatter
Daniela Diaz

Ensemble Acting: Murder by Midnight directed by Lynn Loula
Kaitlin Roush
Logan Hanson
Reid Basten

Musical theatre: Finding Neverland directed by Jonathan Runaas
Logan Hanson
Cale Rausch
Lena Adam
Libby Schnicker
Gracie Cleverley

Improvisational Acting directed by Robin Flattery
Grace Miller
Cody Chalupa
Jose Reyes
Daniela Diaz