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 Special Effects and or Technology


Sam Cole, Sam Ryu, Chantilly High School, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Tyler Coates, Fairfax High School, Sister Act
Soeun Lee, Lake Braddock Secondary School, Dracula
Ethan Jones, Alessandro Martinat-Pillhaca, Megan Wright, McLean High School, Claudio Quest
Eliot Hettler & the Fly Team, Oakton High School, Wendy & Peter Pan
Ash Payne, Sammy Shope, Osbourn Park High School, Mean Girls High School Version
Ryan Birnbaum, Dani Donathan, Charlie Hartigan, Arwyn Oshry, Robinson Secondary School, Disney’s Descendants: The Musical
Hannah Berger, Ava Harper, and the Bright Star Special Effects Team, South Lakes High School, Bright Star
Zoë Coval, Lily Hunsicker, MacPhearson Strassberg, St. Stephen's and St. Agnes, Mamma Mia!
Lacey Vailikit , W. T. Woodson High School, One Man, Two Guvnors
Marceline Castrillon, Niko Godoy, August Yates, Wakefield High School, Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Claire An, Lana Johnson, Alice Samuel, Reanna Vardhanapu, Westfield High School, The Play That Goes Wrong (High School Edition)

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