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PLEASE NOTE: Complementary Cabaret
tickets are avaliable for the press. Press (including cameras)
is encouraged to attend, as there will be a check handing ceremony,
student performances, and a large-scale kickoff of our campaign.
Please contact Matt Wagner at mjwagner@gmail.com.
Click here for photos of productions
avaliable for press use.
The TP Players have recently been awarded the honor of representing
the United States at the American High School Theater Festival
in Edinburgh, Scotland in conjunction with the renowned Edinburgh
Fringe Festival in August 2006. The Edinburgh Festival is the
largest and most prestigious theatre festival in the world. Only
a handful of theatre groups from the USA are asked to participate
each year, and even fewer of those are from high school programs.
To select the schools that will participate in the Edinburgh
Festival, AHSTF relies on state, regional, and national theatre
organizations and university theatre professors to nominate the
nation's top high school theatre programs. Each nominated school
receives an application, and the AHSTF Board of Advisers reviews
all completed applications. The panel of college theatre professionals
comes from all corners of the country. Our program was selected
as number one in California. Normally, much larger and recognized
theatre groups are chosen, often from performing arts schools.
To our knowledge, the TP Players is one of the only student-run
organizations to be invited to the festival from the USA.
Our fundraising efforts are now underway in order to be able
to pay for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and students are
doing immense amounts of work to do their parts in raising the
large amount of money needed to make this trip a reality.
Some examples of the work being done include about 15 TP Players
students working 6-7 hours a night, four to five nights a week
at the Scream Zone at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, a team of students
working weekly to make and sell refreshments at our school's football
games, several students researching individuals and foundations
to provide backing, and another team of students and parents alike
working to seek out corporate sponsors.
The press is welcome at all theatre events, and complementary
tickets are avaliable. For more information, please feel free
to browse our website or to e-mail or call me personally.
Sincerely,
Matt Wagner
TP Players Communcations Officer
mjwagner@gmail.com
(858) 414-8087
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