The Orpheum High School Musical Theatre Awards
Memphis, TN
2026 Ceremony Date: May 21, 2026
The Orpheum High School Musical Theatre Awards supports, promotes, and enhances high school musical theatre throughout the Mid-South. The High School Musical Theatre Awards recognizes achievements in all areas of high school musical theatre and brings together hundreds of students from all over the region to share their talents and collaborate with one another.
Nominees
2025
Bradley Bolden
Aldolpho, The Drowsy Chaperone
St. Mary's Episcopal School
Alyssa McNinch
Carmen Bernstein, Curtains: School Edition
Bartlett High School
2024
Hailey Brown
Anya, Anastasia
Northpoint Christian School
Aden Pettet
Lawrence Jameson, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Collierville High School
2023
Hailey Brown
Miss Hannigan, Annie
Northpoint Christian School
Whit Robbins
Curly, Oklahoma!
New Albany High School
2022
Vera Brown
Snoopy, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Crosstown High School
Brima Gassama
Reverend Shaw, Footloose
Germantown High School
2021
Jada Bunch
Northpoint Christian School
Ben Gray
Evangelical Christian School
2019
Rodney McKinner III
Eddie Souther, Sister Act
Germantown High School
Caroline Morath
Audrey, Little Shop of Horrors
Arlington High School
2018
Amelia Beckham
Millie Dillmount, Thoroughly Modern Millie
Evangelical Christian School
Riley Thad Young
Grasshopper, James and the Giant Peach
Hernando High School
2017
Ethan Benson
Benny, In The Heights
Olive Branch High School
Asia Smith
Delilah Strict, Zombie Prom
Bolton High School
2016
Spencer Germany
Emmett Forrest, Legally Blonde the Musical
Hutchison School
Grace Martin
Eve/Mama Noah, Children of Eden
St. Agnes Academy
2015
Drayton Maclean Mayers
Edward Bloom, Big Fish
Germantown High School
Erica Peninger
Millie Dillmount, Thoroughly Modern Millie
Hernando High School
2014
Bethany Beckham
Witch, Into the Woods
Evangelical Christian School
Maclean Mayers
Edna Turnblad, Hairspray
Germantown High School
2013
Russell Lehman
Billy Crocker, Anything Goes
St. Mary's Episcopal School
Olivia Wingate
Baker's Wife, Into the Woods
Hutchison School
2012
Sam Shankman
Leo Bloom, The Producers
Memphis University School
Sabaa Sharma
Ti Moune, Once on this Island
Lausanne Collegiate School
2011
Paul Powers
Jean Valjean, Les Misérables
Briarcrest Christian High School
Breyannah Tillman
Aida, Aida
Ridgeway High School
2010
Prentiss Mouton
Reverend Shaw, Footloose
Ridgeway High School
Alexis Tarver
Belle, Beauty and the Beast
Briarcrest Christian School