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What is The Discovery Awards?
Presented in partnership with Celebrity Attractions and the Tulsa PAC Trust, THE DISCOVERY AWARDS highlights and awards excellence in high school musical theatre. Professional arts adjudicators attend participating high school musicals and nominate the top two performers from each production. In the spring, all nominees attend a week-long masterclass workshop led by award-winning creatives ending in a showcase competition on stage at the Tulsa PAC. The overall awarded best female and male performers win an all-expense paid trip to represent Eastern Oklahoma in New York City. There they participate in another week-long masterclass workshop led by award-winning creatives and ultimately compete nationally, on a Broadway stage, in front of Broadway producers and directors at the Jimmy® Awards, otherwise known as The National High School Musical Theatre Awards® in the summer. Winners receive a cash scholarship. Keep scrolling to see how you can get involved. |
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Creative team. |
Faith Prince has been dazzling Broadway audiences since winning the Tony®, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance as “Ms. Adelaide” in Guys and Dolls.
As one of Broadway’s best loved leading ladies, Faith most recently starred on Broadway in Disaster! the musical for which she received rave reviews. She starred as the scheming, irascible “Miss Hannigan” in the revival of Annie on Broadway and in 2008 she was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for A Catered Affair. Other Broadway credits include The Little Mermaid, Bells Are Ringing (Tony, DD, OCC noms), Nick & Nora (OCC Award), Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (Tony, DD noms), Little Me, The Dead, and Noises Off. She also starred in the world premiere of Terrence McNally’s Unusual Acts of Devotion and in the national tour of the Broadway hit Billy Elliott. Chicago audiences had the opportunity to see Faith on stage in the iconic role of “Brenda” in the new musical version of the hit movie First Wives Club. Recently, Faith joined the cast of Fox TV’s musical drama Monarch starring as Nellie. She also recurred as Joey Lawrence’s mother on ABC Family’s long running series Melissa & Joey and wrapped her 5-season run as Brooke Elliott’s mother on Lifetime’s hit series Drop Dead Diva. She was a series regular on Showtime's Huff starring as “Kelly Knippers," the love interest of Oliver Platt, and recurred for five seasons on Spin City. Other television credits include Emily in Paris, Modern Family, Chicago Justice, Scream Queens, Galavant, Angel from Hell, A Gifted Man, Happy Endings, Ugly Betty, Grey’s Anatomy, CSI, Faith, House, Medium, Sweet Potato Queens, Monk, Now and Again, Welcome To New York and Law and Order. Film credits include Dear Christmas, Our Very Own, Picture Perfect, Dave, and My Father the Hero. Faith has toured with her Annie co-star Anthony Warlow, which included performances at the Sydney Opera House and the Adelaide Music Festival. She works often with the Boston Pops, Utah Symphony, Cincinnati Pops, and Philly Pops, and starred in the Orlando Philharmonic’s concert version of Sweeney Todd. Faith toured her original show Moving On in Australia to rave reviews, and travelled the U.S. in Over the Rainbow, a concert celebrating the centennial of Harold Arlen. Faith’s new album, Total Faith, was recorded at the Royal Room in the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach and was recently released by Broadway Records. Her award-winning album, A Leap of Faith, was recorded at Joe's Pub. |
Lara Teeter has performed, directed, and choreographed for major regional theater an opera houses nationwide. He is a professor of Theatre and the Head of the Musical Theatre Program at the Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University. Lara has performed in six Broadway shows including the 1982-83 revival of the Rodgers and Hart classic On Your Toes, for which he received a Tony® nomination and an Outer Critics Circle Award. Lara also teaches various tap, musical theatre dance, and audition workshops throughout the country working with kids and teens ages 10 to 18 . He and his wife teach “Beyond the Performace” workshops throughout the year, bringing together a wide variety of guest artists from the Saint Louis community and beyond. These workshops focus on the lifestyle of an artist! They are the proud parents of four beautiful children.
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Originally from Springdale, Arkansas, Jeremy Stevens earned degrees in voice and piano performance and theatre arts at Arkansas Tech University. A choral arts teacher for 10 years at Union Public Schools and Broken Arrow Public Schools, his 2016 eighth-grade choir was selected to perform as an Oklahoma Music Educators Association honor group at Holy Family Cathedral. After joining the TPAC, Jeremy helped to create Orbit Arts, a free community engagement program that offers free community arts programming and instruction in underrepresented communities and community centers across Tulsa. Working for the TPAC has given Jeremy the artistic freedom to pursue programing and engagement activities that promote equity and inclusivity within the arts community. His job, in his eyes, is to look outside of TPAC, discovering what has failed parts of our community in the past, identifying the obstacles and clear them out of the way — ensuring all in our community have access to the arts.
Jeremy’s experience as music director is extensive as he has been a music director and/or director for many shows throughout his career. For Theatre Tulsa: Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, A Chorus Line, Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma!, The Sound of Music (twice), A Little Night Music, The Music Man, Beauty & the Beast, Newsies, 9 to 5, and many more. For American Theatre Company: The Immigrant, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Full Monty, The Rocky Horror Show, Side Show, and more, plus numerous shows while employed at Union Public Schools and Broken Arrow Public Schools. |