Awards/History
Awards
Westview Theatre Company’s regional and festival awards for productions and individual student achievement have included:
3 CETA Main Stage Winning Plays (1st place in SD region)
4 CETA Scene Festival Winning Plays (2nd or 3rd place in SD region)
Many Fullerton Theatre Festival finalists and winners
Many National Youth Arts Awards nominees and winners
7 Broadway San Diego High School Musical Theatre Awards finalists
Westview Theatre Company Awards for outstanding student achievement are given each year at our banquet.
Alumni in the Theatre Arts
Students from our program have gone on to study theatre arts (acting, theater tech, directing, musical theatre, and theater education) at UCLA, NYU, UCSD, Boston U, CSU Fullerton, Shenandoah Conservatory, Carnegie Mellon, SDSU, CSU Long Beach, Marymount Manhattan, Columbia College Chicago, USC, Rutgers, Chapman University, University of Utah, and CSU Sacramento.
Several of our alumni act/have acted professionally in regional theater and national touring companies. One of our WVTC alumni, Kelly Marie Tran, played Rose Tico in Star Wars: Episode VIII and IX (The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker). Read the 92129 Magazine article about Kelly!
WVTC Directors
2002-10: Doug Smith
2010-12: Kristen Nevarez (Schweizer), Chris Wollman
2012-15: Chris Wollman
2015-16: Guest Directors – Jessica Bird, Robert J Townsend
2016-present: Robert J Townsend