To Honor the Guy Who Lives His Art

Another award – this for the young man who has been with me since his first days in high school. He just kept coming back and kept getting better – and the halls will certainly be an emptier affair without him.

Our third and final Bravo for the theatre department goes to a young man who has practically lived at this school for four years. He loves this stuff and it shows. He was worked side by side with every faculty member in the school. Each one of them speaks glowingly of how every project, every play, every student film is simply much better off for having him part of the team. I found a copy of his most recent resume and was surprised by the volume of what he has been able to do in four years. He has been a member of a light crew, prop crew, deck crew, run crew, and served as an Assistant Director to a recent mainstage show. And that’s only the beginning. He has been a part of FOURTEEN performances ranging from student films to circus work to community theatre to mainstage productions. This boy does everything and with aplomb. I take the credit for casting him in his first high school production, The Adding Machine. As a freshman boy, of course, he did not play the lead. He played the Head. Not a body just a head. A head in a graveyard. The head. Of course he went to to play show after show for three more years. Four years later we can round full circle and I cast him in his final high school production where he gave a solid performance of Mark from Shadow Box. Seven crew and management credentials and fourteen performance events. This is not the resume of a boy having fun in theatre – but of a young man rolling up his sleeves and living in this art. The theatre department’s third Bravo recipient Preston Pittman.