West Side Vocal Academy 1301 Weathervane Lane Akron, Ohio 44313
contact us @ westsidevocalacademy@gmail.com
Recent News!
Congratulations to Hugo Christensen Diehl, finalist in Schmidt Competition at Miami of Ohio University! October, 2014
Michaella Waickman, Brian Hirsch and Hugo Christensen Diehl will star in the pilot school version of Ghost at Firestone. 2015
Stanley Neikamp will appear as JoJo in Seussical at Hudson Players, Feb. 2015
Sam Olin-Hitt appeared as Shrek at Green High School, Oct. 2014
All City Musical, 2014 BYE, BYE BIRDIE at the Akron Civic Theatre includes Michaella Waickman as Kim, Brandon Kline as Albert,
Shelby Namsick as Mrs. MacAfee and multitudes of other WSVA students in the cast.
Carly Ameling appears as Tinkerbell in SHREK at Players Guild Theatre, Spring 2014.
Stanley Neikamp and Jack Kendrick appeared in OLIVER! at Porthouse Theatre.
Congratulations : Dawna Warren, attending Baldwin Wallace Conservatory in Vocal Performance and Music Therapy, Fall 2014
!st Place, $1000.00 Winner of MacDowell Music Club Vocal Scholarship!
Carly Ameling attending KSU in Musical Theatre, Fall 2014
Brandon Kline has joined the cast at Disney World! Fall 2014
Shelby Namsick attending Cleveland State, Fall 2014, on scholarship in Music Therapy.
Rachel Ashley Vocal Scholarship at University of Akron, Fall 2014
Jalen Mitchell Full Ride Scholarship in Vocal Performance at Capital University, Fall 2013
more student accomplishments.........
Abby Riley cast as Mary Poppins and Brandon Kline as Bert at FHS in one of the first HS pilot productions of Mary Poppins. Click for other WSVA students cast in this production.
Jonathan Gruich appeared as Terry in Side Show at Near West Theatre in Cleveland, Summer 2013. Cast member of Legally Blonde as KSU Spring 2014, and recently appeared in Plain and Fancy at KSU.
Matthew Taylor cast as Ralphie in A Christmas Story at Cleveland Playhouse this past December.
Dawna Warren cast as the Wardrobe in Beauty and the Beast at Hoover HS.
Marcus Martin ~ appeared as Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Weathervane Playhouse.
Gerard Berroteran ~ appeared as the Prince in the King and I with Ohio Light Opera this past summer.
Maggie Bolas as Reno, Julia Figler as Hope, Kenzie Tartaglione as Mrs. Harcourt, Katie Valenziano as Patience in Anything Goes at Walsh Jesuit
Michaella Waickman ~ appeared as Peter Pan in PETER PAN at Dynamics Community Theatre, Summer 2013
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