Theater
Theater Productions
Auditions are held each semester and the curtain rises annually on a fall drama and spring musical production in the AHA Theater. Students find “leading roles” not only on the stage, but as a Student Director, Student Choreographer or Student Stage Manager and all shadow professionals in the field to learn the craft first hand. Academy students have been nominated and have won multiple theatre awards through the Montclair State University Theatre Night Awards, Papermill Playhouse Rising Star Program and Metropolitan High School Theatre Awards.
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The 2024 Spring production of Urinetown earned three Metro Awards and another three Rising Star Awards – including the Paper Mill’s ultra-prestigious Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical, which is akin to a Tony Award! Check out on feature on BroadwayWorld.com!
Director Katie Collins won both the Metro and the Rising Star Award for Outstanding Achievement in Direction. Eva Zazzali (’25) received her Metro for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role. Joe Lizzi of Saint Joseph Regional High School won his Metro for Outstanding Acting Performance.
Rising Star Awards include: Outstanding Performance by a Featured Ensemble Group – The Rebel Poor; Outstanding Achievement by a Director, Katie Collins; and Outstanding Overall Production of Musical.
Be sure to stay up to date with what’s happening in the theater at AHA, follow along on Instagram and Twitter at @AHA_Theater!
Past Theatre Productions Have Included:
Little Women
Urinetown
Puffs
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Arsenic and Old Lace
Sister Act
1940s Radio Drama
12 Angry Jurors
Disaster
Peter and the Starcatcher
Once Upon a Mattress
Catch Me If You Can
And Then There Were None
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Blithe Spirit
The Women
