The 2024 Freddy Awards Ceremony were presented in a telecast, 7 p.m. May 23, State Theatre Center for the Arts, Easton, on 69 WFMZ-TV and wfmz.com.

Rehearsals of the opening and closing numbers for the telecast, featuring four students from each of the 29 participating schools, began the evening of May 8 in the State Theatre, Easton.

The Freddy Awards Preview Night Dress Rehearsal May 22 was open to the public.

The Freddy nominations were announced during the noon May 9 newscast on 69 WFMZ-TV.

The 2024 Freddy Awards winners are:

Lighting: Dieruff, “Cabaret”

Scenery: Bangor Area, “Mean Girls High School Version”

Male Ensemble Member: Charles Kenney (Jean-Michael), Emmaus, “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Broadway Version)”

Female Ensemble Member: Tori Davis (Alice Beineke), Southern Lehigh, “The Addams Family: School Edition”

Air Products Education-Community Impact Award: Nazareth Area

Small Ensemble (tie): Anna Edwards, Kaysiana Yeager, “Stepsisters’ Lament,” Allentown Central Catholic, “Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Enchanted Edition)” and Mayrali Melendez, Melo Rodriguez, “It Couldn’t Please Me More,” Dieruff, “Cabaret”

Orchestra: Nazareth Area, “Disney’s The Little Mermaid”

Vic Kumma Award, Solo Vocal: Anna Chavolla, “There’s Music In You,” Emmaus, “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Broadway Version)”

Costumes: Freedom, “42nd Street”

Actress, Supporting Role: Addison Giesler (Ursula), Nazareth Area, “Disney’s The Little Mermaid”

Actor, Supporting Role: Melo Rodriguez (Herr Shultz), Dieruff, “Cabaret”

Choreography, Musical Staging: Freedom, “42nd Street”

Ensemble: Parkland, “The SpongeBob Musical”

Featured Dancer: Amelia Roberto (Acrobat), Warren Hills Regional, “Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical”

Featured Actor (tie): Noah Hover (Sebastian), Emmaus, “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Broadway Version)” and Agidio Poloni (Patrick Star), Parkland, “The SpongeBob Musical”

Featured Actress: Skyler Young (Olive Ostrovsky), Belvidere, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bell”

Stage Crew (In memory of Capt. Christopher Seifert): Bangor Area, “Mean Girls High School Version”

Production Number: Emmaus, “The Prince Is Giving A Ball,” “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Broadway Version)”

lehighvalleylive.com, The Express-Times Student Achievement Award: Lauren Ressler (Costumer, Troupe President): Nazareth Area, “Disney’s The Little Mermaid”

Actor, Leading Role: Vasilis Motsenigos (SpongeBob), Parkland, “The SpongeBob Musical”

Actress, Leading Role: Hailey Lara (Regina George), Whitehall, “Mean Girls High School Version”

Production, Smaller School: Wilson Area, “Newsies”

Musical: Parkland, “The SpongeBob Musical”

West Virginia Scholarship: Ayden Gonzalez, Dieruff; Robert Morgan, Southern Lehigh

Civic Theatre of Allentown Internship, Scholarship: Charlie Christian, Dieruff

East Stroudsburg University Scholarship: Bella Smith, Belvidere

Pennsylvania Youth Ballet-Ballet Guild of the Lehigh Valley Summer Dance Intensive: Claire De Dominicis, Allentown Central Catholic; Lucinda Loftus, Catasauqua; Amy Tirado, North Warren Regional; Abbey Gildner, Northampton Area; Tina Andreano, Notre Dame; Amelia Roberto, Warren Hills Regional; Liam Coyle, Wilson Area

Information: https://freddyawards.org/