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 Lighting


Kaia Condon, Natalie McMurry, and the AEHS Lighting Crew, Albert Einstein High School, Lavender
Tychicas Ashby, Jesse Jones, Sophie Pezzulich, Alexandria City High School, Bring It On
Lauren Capistran, Carlos Guevara, Bella Miller, Bishop Ireton High School, Into the Woods
Elizabeth Stuebner, Lighting Team, Centreville High School, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (Enchanted Edition)
Sam Ryu, Todd Yalong, Chantilly High School, Anything Goes
Alec Craig, Justin Meyer, Felix Richardson and Crew, Clarksburg High School , Mean Girls High School Version
Luis Campos, James Conron, Nikolai Crowl, Lilou Shaw, Fairfax High School, Anastasia: The Musical
Chloe Brown, Aleks Jachimiak, Brian Gutierrez Lujan, Nathalie Medina-Sadias, Falls Church High School, Annie
Michael Babecki, Lex MacVicar, LR Newton, Gainesville High School, Macbeth
Daniel Gates, Charlotte Keshap, Pierce Wardian, H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program, Clue: On Stage (High School Edition)
Marley Peterson, Megan Rigsbee, and the Dramahawks Lighting Team, Hayfield Secondary School, Les Misérables School Edition
Isabella Ramsey, Liam Nowak, Herndon High School, Fiddler on the Roof
Kate Hall, Kaitlyn Lytton, Lyn Montalto, James Madison High School, Deadwood Dick, or A Game of Gold
Benny Ward, Justice High School, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Layla Holloman, and the Lighting Crew, Lake Braddock Secondary School, Romeo and Juliet
Henry Lewis, Declan O'Rourke , Erin Young, Atlas Zecca, Langley High School, Alice in Wonderland
Timothy Cedrone, Alex Elders, Scott Fulkerson, Jolie Korfonta, McLean High School, Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play
Naomi Lewis, Meridian High School, Frankenstein
JJ Dunn, Aidan Hoo, Elizabeth Snyder, and Crew, Mount Vernon High School, The Addams Family
River Le, Mia Serspinski, and the Lights Team, Oakton High School, The Doctor in Wonderland
Hunter Hartley, Emily Ta, Osbourn Park High School, The SpongeBob Musical
Luke Atkinson, Coco Mazzarino, Alexa Rosenthal, Maddie Schully, Quince Orchard High School, Chicago: Teen Edition
Katie Eagan, Zaya Economides, Parker Mott, Robinson Secondary School, Pride and Prejudice
Peter Escamilla, Jacob Garrison, Declan Sprick, Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Phil Gigrich, Leah Lewis, Natalie Mitchell, South County High School, Much Ado About Nothing
Abrianna DeAngelo, Sebastian Harman, Zach Levey, & Eamon O'Leary, South Lakes High School, Big Fish School Edition
Eli Adu, Connor Herwig, Joseph Peters, Rebecca Piercey, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Into the Woods
Ryiee Michael, Wyatt Stanton, Arleigh Womack, St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School, Pride and Prejudice
Malyha Bashar, Kiara Frey, Arcadia Perszyk, Thomas A Edison High School, The Addams Family School Edition
Ella Clarke, Anthony Drozd, Ella Greene, Cullan Kelley, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, The SpongeBob Musical
Sofia Argüelles, Sean Glaze, Ike Mandaville, Ella Sitz, Wakefield High School, The Prom School Edition
Ella Gontkovic, Alyssa Hodor, and the Whitman Lighting Team, Walt Whitman High School , Cabaret
Zachary Kearny, Rakeb Yihunie, and The Sweeney Lighting Team, West Springfield High School, Sweeney Todd School Edition
Vinita Adhira, Zachary Gregg, Eleanor Mescher, Aidan Petrinjak, Westfield High School, Miss Holmes
Lucas Czechowski, Jordan Freedy, Galen Kramer, and the 1776 Lighting Crew, Woodson High School, 1776
Keya Sikotra, and the Yorktown Lighting Crew, Yorktown High School, Les Misérables School Edition

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