Academy Awards 2023

This year marked the 21st year of Brimmer’s Academy Awards, an annual celebration of our students’ contributions to the performing and visual arts programs throughout the year! Following a festive reception and an outstanding fashion show featuring designs from our Upper School students in Kathryn Lee's Fashion Design I and II, Academy Award hosts Haripriya Mallidi ‘23 and Alison Rimas ‘23 took the stage, delighting the audience with their energy, humor, and charisma. The Upper School Instrumental Ensemble, led by Middle and Upper School Instrumental Music Teacher Alex Ostergard, provided upbeat and lively interludes as student, faculty, and alumni presenters handed out awards.
 
Awards were given to Middle and Upper School artists for their outstanding contributions onstage and behind-the-scenes in our plays and musicals, for their vocal and instrumental efforts in our ensembles, and for their commitment and developing talent in our visual arts classes. Creative Arts Department Chair Bill Jacob also acknowledged this year’s Alumni Creative Arts Hall of Fame inductee, the cast of the 2003 production of Anything Goes, which was formally honored at this year’s Alumni Day Celebration. Mr. Jacob reminded our students that we very well could be honoring the magic they create in the arts at Brimmer today twenty years from now!

Middle School Awards
 

Breakout Performance by a Technician
- Sari Cooper as Sound Board in
Matilda, Jr., Charlie Young as Light Board in Captain Fantastic! 
Outstanding Performance by a Technician - Ada Knox as Asst. Stage Manager in Captain Fantastic! 
Breakout Performance in a Play - Jacob Chou as Bradford/Ink Blot in Captain Fantastic! 
Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a Play - Cole Esrick as Ensemble in Captain Fantastic! 
Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role in a Play - Marguerite Bourgeois as Mrs. Mayberry in Captain Fantastic!, Austin Hsiao as Conroy/Buckethead in Captain Fantastic! 
Breakout Performance in a Musical - Joshua S. as Rudolpho in Matilda, Jr. 
Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a Musical - Veronica Castro as Older Student #2 in Matilda, Jr. 
Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical - Skylar Bernon as Mrs. Wormwood in Matilda, Jr., Lucien Ratiner-Schultz as Mr. Wormwood in Matilda, Jr. 
Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role in a Play - Charlie Burket as Waldo PuppyBreath/Captain Fantastic in Captain Fantastic!, Mia Heyman as Penelope Mayberry in Captain Fantastic! 
Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role in a Musical - Ruby Bearak as Matilda Wormwood in Matilda, Jr. 
 
Poster Awards
Outstanding Production Poster - Matilda, Jr. by Keira Aslam 
Outstanding Event Poster - Spring Concert by Stephanie Altschul 

Upper School Awards 

Outstanding
Performance by a Technician - Liesel Gartner as Stage Manager in
Peter and the Starcatcher 
Outstanding Performance by a Technician - Ady Jaeckel as Stage Manager in Something Rotten! 
Breakout Performance in a Play - Meera Gandhi as Ensemble in Peter and the Starcatcher 
Breakout Performance in a Musical - Mary Wang as Tom in Something Rotten! 
Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a Play - Daniel Murray as Capt. Robert Falcon Scott in Peter and the Starcatcher 
Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a Musical - Chloe Scolnick as Miranda/Puritan in Something Rotten! 
 
Departmental Awards: Art, Choral, Instrumental, & Digital Cinema 

Visual Art
 
Emerging Talent Award - Shyla Fernandes 
Discovery Award - Mimie Manigat 
Total Immersion Award - Caleb Meranus & Stephanie Altschul 
The Renaissance Award - Ady Jaeckel 
 
Upper School Choral  
Most Improved - Ruby Cohen-Weinberg 
Choral Excellence - Effie Chen 
 
Instrumental 
Middle School Band Spirit - Leo Karnes 
Middle School Instrumental Excellence - Fischer Biederman & Zahin Kapoor 
Upper School Band Spirit - Kyle Terino 
Upper School Instrumental Excellence - Kieran Cross 
 
Video 
Best Editing - Adi Houndegla 
Best Film - Jaden Morris 

Upper School Awards (cont.) 

Broadway Café
- Daniel Murray & Haripriya Mallidi
 
Hall of Fame Induction - 2003 Cast and Crew of Anything Goes 
Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role in a Play - Nikka Souza as Prentice in Peter and 
the Starcatcher, Maya Lownie as Teacher/Ensemble in Peter and the Starcatcher 
Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical - Jerry Dong as Jeremiah in Something Rotten! 
Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role in a Play - Priya Mallidi as Molly Aster in Peter and the 
Starcatcher, Ady Jaeckel as Black Stache in Peter and the Starcatcher 
Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role in a Musical - Huck Jennings as Nick Bottom in Something 
Rotten!, Kyle Terino as Nigel Bottom in Something Rotten! 
Lifetime Achievement - Marlie Kass 

CONGRATULATIONS to all of the students who received Academy Awards!
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