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2025-2026 DTASC Festivals
Fall Festivals
Mandatory Festival Membership Meeting
August 23, 2025 (Location TBD)
10am-2pm (New Teachers meet at 9am)
Varsity Division - October 23, 2025
(Location TBD)
JV/MS Divisions - November 8, 2025
(Location TBD)
Fall Festival Categories
Tech Design:
Theme: your upcoming school play (not Shakespeare; can be an original piece). NOTE - if your upcoming play is Shakespeare, you are welcome to choose your Spring production.
Scenic Design
Lighting Design (JV & Varsity Only)
Marketing & Publicity
Costumes & Makeup Design
ACTING:
Audition Monologue (1 performer, 5 minutes max)
Small Group Categories (2-4 Performers, 5 minutes max)
Literary Adaptation (plays that are adapted from novels, short stories, etc).
(Straight Cut)
Based on a True Story (plays that are based on true events)
Before the Play Begins (Student Original that takes place before a known play)
Large Group Categories (3-6 Performers, 8 minutes max)
Open Drama
Open Comedy
Open Musical (3-10 performers)
Shakespeare Festival:
Combined Festival, All Divisions, April 25, 2026
(Location TBD)
Tech Design Categories: Featured Plays (Romeo and Juliet & A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Set Design
Lighting Design (JV & Varsity Only)
Marketing & Publicity
Character Costumes
World Court Costumes
Acting Categories
Audition Monologue (5 minutes max)
Small Group (2-4 performers, 5 minutes max)
No Small Parts
Shakespeare’s Passport
Ship It
Large Group (3-6 performers 8 minutes max)
Large Drama - Romeo and Juliet
Large Comedy - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Act and Scene (Straight Cut) - The Board will randomly select an Act and Scene
Number. All schools must perform the assigned Act / Scene, but from any of
Shakespeare’s plays. (3-10 performers)
2024-2025 DTASC Festivals
Shakespeare Festival:
Combined Festival, All Divisions, April 26, 2025 (Santa Monica High School)
Middle School Festival Results
Junior Varsity Festival Results
Varsity Festival Results
Room Chair Training Powerpoint
Room Chair Training Video
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2025 DTASC Scholarship Recipients
Congratulations to all of our DTASC Scholarship Recipients and to everyone who auditioned.
Juliette Lin, Palos Verdes Peninsula HS
Sam Jacobson, Palisades Charter HS
Eden Rubsamen, Saugus HS
Jesse Brasler, Calabasas HS
Mario Lomeli Scholarship Recipient
CETA and DTASC Co-Sponsors
Melissa Valdivia, Verdugo Hills HS
Gai Laing Jones Scholarship,
Funded by Gai Laing Jones
Tilly Winter, Calabasas HS
Our 2024-2026 DTASC Board of Directors:
| President | David Levy |
| Executive Vice President | Yvette Bishop |
| Varsity Vice President | Bill Garrett |
| MS/JV Vice President | Sara Martinovich |
| Treasurer | Nancy Maki |
| Recording Secretary | Nikki Parsons |
| Membership Secretary | Schuyler Mastain |
| Varsity Registrar | Ricky Meza |
| MS/JV Registrar | Nicole Pedroche |
| President Ex-Officio | Seth Cohen |
| Historian | Marcia Barryte |
| Parliamentarian | Tina Ballabio |
| DEIB Officer | Bernard Addison |
| Social Committee | OPEN |
| Web Manager | Seth Cohen |
| Social Media Liaison | OPEN |
If you are reaching a DTASC Milestone year (10, 20, 25 years etc) please contact Seth Cohen