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.

2023-2024 Season Critics Choices for Dancer in a Female Role


Ariana Singleton, Alexandria City High School, Bring It On
Lucy Baboyian, Annandale High School, Mean Girls High School Version
Sofia Meller, Bishop Ireton High School, Into the Woods
Vanesa Barraza, Centreville High School, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (Enchanted Edition)
Mary Clare Pelczynski, Chantilly High School, Anything Goes
Sierra Flowers, Clarksburg High School , Mean Girls High School Version
Desirae Brown, Colgan High School, Rent School Edition
Naomi Bautista, Fairfax High School, Anastasia: The Musical
Pauleen Kabiling, Falls Church High School, Annie
Ava Taylor as a guest, Hayfield Secondary School, Les Misérables School Edition
Rae Weston, Herndon High School, Fiddler on the Roof
Lexi Stattel, James Madison High School, Deadwood Dick, or A Game of Gold
Carter Smith, Lake Braddock Secondary School, Romeo and Juliet
Olivia Pierre, Meridian High School, Frankenstein
Emma Ballantine, Mount Vernon High School, The Addams Family
Megan Kaess, Osbourn Park High School, The SpongeBob Musical
Maren Lewis, Quince Orchard High School, Chicago: Teen Edition
Kelsea O'Toole, Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Itsuko Scoville, South Lakes High School, Big Fish School Edition
Leah Facciobene, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Into the Woods
Zoey Hewton, Thomas A Edison High School, The Addams Family School Edition
Ella Clarke, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, The SpongeBob Musical
Angie Sukhee, Wakefield High School, The Prom School Edition
Kathryn Edmonds, Walt Whitman High School , Cabaret
Bailey Libby, Woodson High School, 1776
Carson Knowles, Yorktown High School, Les Misérables School Edition

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