Please note that the listings below are NOT nominations. The following names are the choices the critics made on Cappies show night. These names will be the names on the ballot from which the top five nominees will be selected.

2022-2023 Season Critics Choices for Featured Actor in a Female Role in a Musical


Anastasia Wixson, Albert Einstein High School, My Favorite Year
Maria McLemore, Alexandria City High School, Sister Act
Isabelle Phillips, Bishop Ireton High School, The Music Man
Kelley Simpkins, Centreville High School, Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka
Asanti Lubika, Clarksburg High School, Once on This Island
Lauren Williams, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Animal Farm
Ann Marie Seybold, Fairfax High School, Sister Act
Kate Schlageter-Prettyman, Falls Church High School, Chicago: Teen Edition
Iris Reed, Gainesville High School, Seussical
Nora Blythe, Herndon High School, Kiss Me, Kate
Natalie Ly, John R. Lewis High School, Legally Blonde The Musical
Jasper Geer, Justice High School, Pippin
Franny Hemsley, McLean High School, Claudio Quest
Owen Simmons, Osbourn Park High School, Mean Girls High School Version
Catherine Brady, Quince Orchard High School, Anastasia: The Musical
Elyson Mader, Robinson Secondary School, Disney’s Descendants: The Musical
Alice Reid, Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School, Rodgers and Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA!
Sarah Peckham, South County High School, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
Alexa Norris, South Lakes High School, Bright Star
Zyley Bender, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
Gabriella Miller Milow, St. Stephen's and St. Agnes, Mamma Mia!
Evelyne Breed, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Pippin
Penelope Wagner, Wakefield High School, Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Kiara Pearce, Walt Whitman High School, Legally Blonde The Musical
Miranda Dress, West Springfield High School, Something Rotten!

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