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The Orpheum High School Musical Theatre Awards

Memphis, TN

Orpheum Theatre Group

2026 Ceremony Date: May 21, 2026

The Orpheum High School Musical Theatre Awards supports, promotes, and enhances high school musical theatre throughout the Mid-South. The High School Musical Theatre Awards recognizes achievements in all areas of high school musical theatre and brings together hundreds of students from all over the region to share their talents and collaborate with one another.

Nominees

2026

Maggie Belle Dinstuhl
Maggie Belle Dinstuhl

Marlena, Water for Elephants High School Edition

Collierville High School

Hayden Hooper
Hayden Hooper

Jacob, Water For Elephants High School Edition

Collierville High School

2025

Bradley Bolden
Bradley Bolden

Aldolpho, The Drowsy Chaperone

St. Mary's Episcopal School

Alyssa McNinch
Alyssa McNinch

Carmen Bernstein, Curtains: School Edition

Bartlett High School

2024

Hailey Brown
Hailey Brown

Anya, Anastasia

Northpoint Christian School

Aden Pettet
Aden Pettet

Lawrence Jameson, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Collierville High School

2023

Hailey Brown
Hailey Brown

Miss Hannigan, Annie

Northpoint Christian School

Whit Robbins
Whit Robbins

Curly, Oklahoma!

New Albany High School

2022

Vera Brown
Vera Brown

Snoopy, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Crosstown High School

Brima Gassama
Brima Gassama

Reverend Shaw, Footloose

Germantown High School

2021

Jada Bunch
Jada Bunch

Northpoint Christian School

Ben Gray
Ben Gray

Evangelical Christian School

2019

Rodney McKinner III
Rodney McKinner III

Eddie Souther, Sister Act

Germantown High School

Caroline Morath
Caroline Morath

Audrey, Little Shop of Horrors

Arlington High School

2018

Amelia Beckham
Amelia Beckham

Millie Dillmount, Thoroughly Modern Millie

Evangelical Christian School

Riley Thad Young
Riley Thad Young

Grasshopper, James and the Giant Peach

Hernando High School

2017

Ethan Benson
Ethan Benson

Benny, In The Heights

Olive Branch High School

Asia Smith
Asia Smith

Delilah Strict, Zombie Prom

Bolton High School

2016

Spencer Germany
Spencer Germany

Emmett Forrest, Legally Blonde the Musical

Hutchison School

Grace Martin
Grace Martin

Eve/Mama Noah, Children of Eden

St. Agnes Academy

2015

Drayton Maclean Mayers
Drayton Maclean Mayers

Edward Bloom, Big Fish

Germantown High School

Erica Peninger
Erica Peninger

Millie Dillmount, Thoroughly Modern Millie

Hernando High School

2014

Bethany Beckham
Bethany Beckham

Witch, Into the Woods

Evangelical Christian School

Maclean Mayers
Maclean Mayers

Edna Turnblad, Hairspray

Germantown High School

2013

Russell Lehman
Russell Lehman

Billy Crocker, Anything Goes

St. Mary's Episcopal School

Olivia Wingate
Olivia Wingate

Baker's Wife, Into the Woods

Hutchison School

2012

Sam Shankman
Sam Shankman

Leo Bloom, The Producers

Memphis University School

Sabaa Sharma
Sabaa Sharma

Ti Moune, Once on this Island

Lausanne Collegiate School

2011

Paul Powers
Paul Powers

Jean Valjean, Les Misérables

Briarcrest Christian High School

Breyannah Tillman
Breyannah Tillman

Aida, Aida

Ridgeway High School

2010

Prentiss Mouton
Prentiss Mouton

Reverend Shaw, Footloose

Ridgeway High School

Alexis Tarver
Alexis Tarver

Belle, Beauty and the Beast

Briarcrest Christian School