Illinois High School Musical Theatre Awards IHSMTA 2012

Best Actor Nathan Salstone Glenbrook North High School The Phantom of the Opera, The Phantom of the Opera

Best Actress Meadow Nguy O’Fallon Township High School Dorothy Gale, The Wizard of Oz

Best Actor Nominees Sam Babick Cary-Grove High School Bobby Strong, Urinetown

Eyeri Cabrera-Loos Chicago High School For the Arts Daniel, Once On This Island

 Kevin Casson Plainfield High School South Radames, Aida

Harrison Fox Barrington High School Horrace Vandergelder, Hello Dolly

 Wesley Hunt Dunlap High School Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 

Christopher Kelley Homewood-Flossmoor High School Aaron Fox, Curtains

 Tyler Leahy Hinsdale Central High School Jean Valjean, Les Miserables

 Seamus McMahon Saint Ignatius College Prep Arthur, Camelot

 Nicholas Olson Adlai Stevenson High School Anthony, Sweeney Todd

Shea Pender Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School Billy Lawlor, 42^nd Street 

Ryan Smetana Lincoln Way East High School Harold Hill, The Music Man

Best Actress Nominees Ilana Braverman Adali Stevenson High School Johanna, Sweeney Todd

 Addie Burich Deerfield High School Olive Ostrovsky, The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Kyrie Courter Chicago High School  For the Arts Ti Moune, Once on This Island

Jayne Jaeger Hinsdale Central High School Cosette, Les Miserables 

Theresa Moen Benet Academy Georgia Hendricks, Curtains

Megan Orticelli Glenbrook North High School Christine, The Phantom of the Opera

 Grace Petit John Hersey High School Jo March, Little Women

 Valerie Pizzato William Fremd High School Janet Van De Graaf, The Drowsy Chaperone

 Jordan Puhala Crystal Lake Central High School Reno Sweeney, Anything Goes

 Andrea Schumann Barrington High School Dolly Gallagher Levi, Hello Dolly

 Sheila Wilhelmi Cary-Grove High School Hope Cladwell, Urinetown

Participating Schools Adali Stevenson High School Alleman High School Amos Alonzo Stagg High School Barrington High School Bartlett High School Benet Academy Byron High School Cary-Grove High School Chicago High School for the Arts Crystal Lake Central High School Deerfield High School Dunlap High School Francis W. Parker School Glenbard West High School Glenbrook North Guilford High School Hinsdale Central High School Homewood-Flossmoor High School John Hersey High School Libertyville High School Lincoln Way East Loyola Academy Lyons Township High School Maine West High School Mother McAuley Oak Lawn Community High School O’Fallon Township High School Plainfield South High School Rosary High School Saint Ignatius Colege Prep St. Francis High School William Fremd High School