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Congratulations to the 2015 ESU Boston Branch Shakespeare Winner, Elizabeth Mears, from Wellesley High School and her teacher, Stephen Wrobleski. Paul Boghosian, President, congratulates her as a finalist in the national competition. Good luck at the National Competition in New York City!
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Boston Branch Winner Places Third in National Shakespeare Competition
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(l to r - Third place winner, Elizabeth Mears - Boston Branch, winner Sarah Spalding and Second place winner Evelyn Johnson)
New York City, April 27, 2015 -- With a performance of a sonnet and monologue from Shakespeare, Sarah Spalding, a student of John Watt at Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu, won first prize at the 32nd annual English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition. The Competition was held on April 27th at Lincoln Center Theater in New York City for 57 winners of ESU Branch competitions nationwide. Sarah had previously won the ESU Hawaii Branch regional competition. Her prize for placing first is a full scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art's Young Actors Summer School in London, England.
The runner up of the English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition, Evelyn Johnson, representing the Philadelphia Branch of the ESU, won a full scholarship to the American Shakespeare Center's Theatre Camp in Staunton, Virginia. Third place winner, Elizabeth Mears, representing the Boston Branch of the ESU, won $500 from The Shakespeare Society.
