{"id":1059,"date":"2024-05-29T00:53:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T00:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/kansas-city\/?page_id=1059"},"modified":"2024-05-29T00:53:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T00:53:07","slug":"pierre-madlangbayan-wins-first-place-peoples-choice-award-two-years-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/kansascity\/news-events\/pierre-madlangbayan-wins-first-place-peoples-choice-award-two-years-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Madlangbayan Wins First Place People&#8217;s Choice Award Two Years in a Row"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section id=\"\" class=\"esu-basic-full-width\">\n\n    <div class=\"inner\">\n        <div class=\"wrapper\">\n\n            \n                            <div class=\"title heading-2\">\n                    Pierre Madlangbayan Wins First Place People&#8217;s Choice Award Two Years in a Row                <\/div>\n            \n            \n                            <div class=\"content\">\n                    <p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1057\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/kansas-city\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/pierre-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1432\" height=\"749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/kansascity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/pierre-1.png 1432w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/kansascity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/pierre-1-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/kansascity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/pierre-1-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/kansascity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/pierre-1-768x402.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1432px) 100vw, 1432px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pierre Beatrix Madlangbayan, a senior from Garden City High School, Garden City, Kansas, representing the ESU Kansas City Branch, won <\/span><b>First Place<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>People\u2019s Choice Award <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for the <\/span><b><i>second time in two years<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">! Pierre&nbsp; was a semi-finalist among 44 students nationwide who competed in the 2024 National Shakespeare Competition held at Lincoln Center in New York City, April 15, 2024. <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1058\" style=\"width: 567px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1058\" class=\"wp-image-1058 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/kansas-city\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/pierre-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/kansascity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/pierre-2.jpeg 557w, https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/kansascity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/pierre-2-300x193.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L to R) Jeff Schnabel, Kansas City Branch Board member, Pierre Madlangbayan, Bill Kennedy, President of ESU Cleveland Branch, presents People\u2019s Choice First Place Award to Pierre.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out of the 44 students who entered the 2024 National Shakespeare Competition\u2019s People&#8217;s Choice Award, Pierre received the most votes from her classmates, friends, and relatives, both in Garden City, Kansas, and the Philippines for her performance of the character of Emilia from the play <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Othello <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and recited Shakespeare sonnet 71.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The People\u2019s Choice Awards are granted to the three students who receive the most votes from classmates, friends, and relatives after watching their Shakespeare video monologue performance and sonnet recitation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The three 2024 People\u2019s Choice Award winners are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First Place: Pierre Beatrix Madlangbayan, ESU Kansas City Branch\u2014502 votes&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second Place: Bee Wipper, ESU Savannah Branch<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Third Place: Bradyn Prisand, ESU Los Angeles Branch<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three awards: First Place winner receives $1,000 (generously provided by the ESU Cleveland Branch); Second Place winner receives $500 from ESU National; and Third Place winner receives $250 from ESU National.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;Nearly 6,000 people from around the world voted for this year\u2019s ESU National Shakespeare Competition\u2019s People\u2019s Choice Award. Everyone from the ESU Kansas City Branch congratulates Pierre on winning First Place two years in a row. Also, a big thank you to the Cleveland Branch for underwriting the People\u2019s Choice Award first place prize.<\/span><\/p>\n                <\/div>\n            \n            \n\n            \n        <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":817,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1059","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.2 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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