Ava Blum from Georgetown Day School in Washington DC won the 37th Annual National Shakespeare Competition and received a full scholarship to attend the Midsummer Conservatory Program at the British American Drama Academy (BADA) in Oxford, England as the first place award for performing as Julia from Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona and reciting Sonnet 116 in the final round of competition.
Past Winners
Year | Student Name | ESU Branch Name |
2018 | Jackson Dean | Palm Springs |
2017 | Ogechi Egonu | San Francisco |
2016 | Ari Dalbert | Hawaii |
2015 | Sarah Spalding | Hawaii |
2014 | Scott Van Wye | Indianapolis |
2013 | Xavier Pacheco | New York City |
2012 | Tiffany Ames | Charlottesville |
2011 | Connor Lawhorn | Hawaii |
2010 | John-Michael Lyles | Dallas |
2009 | Talene Monahon | Boston |
2008 | Bronwyn Reed | Los Angeles |
2007 | Adam Brown | Kentucky |
2006 | Anne Thompson | Indianapolis |
2005 | Eric Wilson | Memphis |
2004 | Joe Sofranko | Cincinnati |
2003 | Natalie Kuhn | Los Angeles |
2002 | Alicia Collins | Nashville |
2001 | Katey Parker | Central FL |
2000 | Anne Russell | Portland |
1999 | Matt Harrington | San Diego |
1998 | Daniel Marmion | Princeton |
1997 | Enrico Banson | San Francisco |
1996 | Boise Owens Holmes | Research Triangle NC |
1995 | Shannon Berry | Monmouth County NJ |
1994 | Dannye (Tanisha) Thompson | Kansas City |
1993 | Toi Perkins | Washington DC |
1992 | David Roche | Kansas City |
1991 | Jeremy Richards | Cleveland |
1990 | Shannon Emerick | Dallas |
1989 | Anthony Braithwaite | Philadelphia |
1988 | Victoria Wei | Princeton |