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 Lighting


Virginia "Jesse" Jones, Alexandria City High School, Sister Act
Nikolai Crowl, Sandy Rocha, Maple Shawish, Nicolas Vargas, Annandale High School, Argonautika: The Voyage of Jason and the Argonauts
Ronnie Sanders, Elisabeth Stuebner, Centreville High School, Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka
Sam Ryu, Chantilly High School, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Tobi Oyeneyin, Vick Peterson, Clarksburg High School, Once on This Island
Leila Graham, Fitz Morrissey, Delaney Price, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Animal Farm
Johanna Carroll, Taehyun Lee, John Mark Perry, Fairfax High School, Sister Act
Leslie Fon, Brian Gutierrez Lujan, Falls Church High School, Chicago: Teen Edition
Michael Babecki, Katelyn Burton, Ian Rodriguez Vega, Gainesville High School, Seussical
Daniel Gates, Kevin Nguyen, H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program, Eurydice
Chloe Thompson, Emmy Tublin, Herndon High School, Kiss Me, Kate
Kaitlyn Lytton, James Madison High School, Much Ado About Nothing
Elizabeth Cheek, Benny Ward, Justice High School, Pippin
Katie Brusseau, Sungah Kong, Lake Braddock Secondary School, Dracula
Cassie Keating, Declan O'Rourke, Aaron Pasztor, Atlas Zecca, Langley High School, The Man Who Came to Dinner
Alex Elders, Jolie Korfonta, McLean High School, Claudio Quest
Naomi Lewis, Emily Marrow, Augie Reitmeyer, Sebastian Robertson, Meridian High School, The Love Doctor
Jack Dova, Elizabeth Snyder, & Crew, Mount Vernon High School, She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurers Edition
JJ Feeny, River Le, & the Lighting Team, Oakton High School, Wendy & Peter Pan
Emily Ta, Osbourn Park High School, Mean Girls High School Version
Coco Mazzarino, Alexa Rosenthal, Maddie Schully, Quince Orchard High School, Anastasia: The Musical
Katie Eagan, Zaya Economides, Haley Novotny, Robinson Secondary School, Disney’s Descendants: The Musical
Dominic Brunsman, Peter Escamilla, Jacob Garrison, Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School, Rodgers and Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA!
Phil Gigrich, Leah Lewis, Natalie Mitchell, South County High School, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
Hannah Berger, Ava Harper, and the Bright Star Lighting Team, South Lakes High School, Bright Star
Rebecca Piercey, Christina Rowe, Vince Wayne, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
Kurt Gehlhoff, Wyatt Stanton, Followspot Operators, St. Stephen's and St. Agnes, Mamma Mia!
Malyha Bashar, Kiara Frey, Arcadia Perszyk, Thomas A. Edison High School, Clue: Onstage (High School Edition)
Charles Bucher, Ella Clarke, Cullan Kelley, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Pippin
Noelle Cain, Travis Conway, Lucas Czechowski, David Sprague, W. T. Woodson High School, One Man, Two Guvnors
Sofia Arguelles, Sean Glaze, AJ Jordan, Ike Mandaville, Wakefield High School, Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Ella Gontkovic, Bella Virk, Walt Whitman High School, Legally Blonde The Musical
Eleanor Heinbaugh, Zachary Kearny, Rakeb Yihunie, The Rotten Lights Crew, West Springfield High School, Something Rotten!
Vinita Adhira, Seth Galoci, Zachary Gregg, Aidan Petrinjak, Westfield High School, The Play That Goes Wrong (High School Edition)
Valentina Aliss, Lucy Hines, Taryn Pomeroy, Woodbridge Senior High School, Peter and the Starcatcher

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