Temple's UIL One-Act Play team will compete in the UIL State Finals on Thursday, April 25 around 5:40 p.m. at the Round Rock ISD Performing Arts Center, 5800 McNeil Dr., Austin TX 78729 (seats 1,500). The eight finalists are broken down into two sessions which begin at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are not available in advance and seats are not reserved. Tickets are available only on the day of the contest (beginning at 2:30 p.m.) at the PAC. You can buy tickets for both sessions at once. CASH ONLY. Adults $14 per session, Students $12 per session.

The school year began with 254 schools entered in the 6A one-act competition. Now, there are only eight schools remaining — and Temple is one of the eight!

Performance times are approximated. Shows run back-to-back in each session. Audience members may enter and exit only between shows.

SESSION ONE
    (1) 4:00 p.m. Pflugerville: Hendrickson High — The Caucasian Chalk Circle
    (2) 4:50 p.m. Keller: Central High — Medea
    (3) 5:40 p.m. Temple High — Baby with the Bathwater
    (4) 6:30 p.m. Houston: Carnegie Vanguard High — Things I Know to Be True
SESSION TWO
    (5) 7:30 p.m. Austin: Stephen F. Austin High — A Rosen by Any Other Name 
    (6) 8:20 p.m. San Antonio: Ronald Reagan High — I Never Saw Another Butterfly 
    (7) 9:10 p.m. Fort Bend: George Bush High — In the Blood 
    (8) 10:00 p.m. Arlington: Martin High — Dancing at Lughnasa

JUDGE'S BIOS — Critic judges will be Margaret Valenta-Davis, Jill Ludington and Charles Falcon

We have established a Go Fund Me page asking theatre alumni and friends to contribute an amount equal to their graduation year. For example, if you graduated in 2012, we are asking that you donate $20.12 (GoFundMe rounds it to whole dollars) to help give the students a memorable trip to state. CLICK HERE and help if you are able. The trip is April 23-25, so we need help quickly! (HINT: Set the TIP amount for GoFundMe to "other", and then enter zero.)

  CLICK HERE for the cast and crew information page. For the 27th year in a row, Temple's team has advanced from the district contest. No other UIL team at Temple High holds such a record. This will be the 4th time in the last five years that Temple has advanced to the state finals. Last year, Temple's entry (On the Verge)  placed 4th in the state, out of over 250 5A schools. This year, Temple is in the 6A classification.

Temple's UIL One-Act Play Team advanced to the State Finals during the region contest held Saturday, April 13, at Waco University High School. This will be the 4th time in the last five years that Temple's UIL one-act play team has made it to the state finals. Advancing with Temple was Hendrickson High (Pflugerville) with Caucasian Chalk Circle. Klein Oak was the alternate school. The state finals will be Thursday, April 25, at the Round Rock ISD Performing Arts Center. More details will be added as they become available.

Sierra Amalbert and Anthony Williams were named to the Region All-Star Cast. Seth Little was named to the Honorable Mention Region All-Star Cast. Anaiya Harris was named to the All-Star Technical Crew.

Temple's UIL One-Act Play team will compete at the Region Contest on Saturday, April 13 at Waco University High Auditorium, 3201 South New Road, Waco TX 76706. (The auditorium actually faces North Old Robinson Road.) Admission is $10 per person. Plays will be performed back-to-back with audience members entering and exiting only between shows. Listed performance times are approximated. At this level, there are now only 24 schools left in the state in the 6A classification contest.

The performance order has been modified from what was originally scheduled because of conflicts with some of the region academic contests held on the same day. Performance order and approximate times are:
    (1) 1:30 p.m. McKinney High — Sweet Nothing in My Ear
    (2) 2:20 p.m. Klein Oak High — Children of a Lesser God
    (3) 3:10 p.m. J J Pearce High (Richardson) — Bob: A Life in Five Acts
    (4) 4:00 p.m. Temple High — Baby with the Bathwater
    (5) 4:50 p.m. Hendrickson High (Pflugerville ISD) — Caucasian Chalk Circle   2nd website
    (6) 5:40 p.m  Spring High — These Shining Lives
Two of the six schools will advance to the State Finals on Thursday, April 25, at the Round Rock ISD Performing Arts Center.

Critic judges will be Yvonne Phillips-Dupree, Mark Stringham and Lisa Hale.

Temple's entry, Baby with the Bathwater by Christopher Durang, begins as Helen (Sierra Amalbert) and John (Seth Little) gaze proudly at their new offspring, a bit disappointed that is doesn't speak English and they are too polite to check its sex. So they decide that the child is a girl and name it Daisy — which leads to all manner of future emotional and personality problems when it turns out that Daisy (Anthony Williamson) is actually a boy. The play charts the saga of Daisy's struggle to establish his identity and introduces us to the many zany characters he meets along the way. Durang is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy.

  CLICK HERE for the cast and crew information page. For the 27th year in a row, Temple's team has advanced from the district contest. No other UIL team at Temple High holds such a record. Last year, Temple's entry (On the Verge)  placed 4th in the state, out of over 250 5A schools. This year, Temple is in the 6A classification.

Temple's UIL One-Act Play team won the Area Contest held at Midway Performing Arts Center on Saturday, April 6. That means only 24 schools remain in the state in the 6A classification contest. Temple advances to the Region Contest to be held at Waco University High on Saturday, April 13.

At the area contest, Sierra Amalbert and Seth Little were named to the All-Star Cast. Sereniti Patterson and Anthony Williamson were named to the Honorable Mention All-Star Cast, Michael Jones was named to the Area All-Star Crew.

Temple High School's UIL team will compete in the 2019 Area (Districts 9-12) UIL One-Act Play competition on Saturday, April 6 at the Midway Performing Arts Center, 800 Hewitt Drive, Hewitt, TX 76643. There are now only 48 schools left in the 6A contest. Admission will be $5 per person. Audience members may enter and exit only between shows. Shows run back-to-back. Competition order and estimated performance times for Saturday are:
    (1) 12:00 p.m. McKinney High — Sweet Nothing in My Ear
    (2) 12:50 p.m. Rockwall Heath High — Mariner
    (3) 1:40 p.m. JJ Pearce High (Richardson) — Bob: A Life in Five Acts
    (4) 2:30 p.m. Wylie High — The Book of Will
    (5) 3:20 p.m. Longview High — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 
    (6) 4:10 p.m. Temple High — Baby with the Bathwater
Three of the six schools will advance to the Region Contest, which will be Saturday, April 13, at University High School in Waco. Temple's official rehearsal time is Saturday morning from 9:40 to 10:40 a.m.

Critic judges include Cindy SoRelle, Christy Collard, Michael Cooper. Glenn Price is serving as contest manager.

Temple's entry, Baby with the Bathwater by Christopher Durang, begins as Helen (Sierra Amalbert) and John (Seth Little) gaze proudly at their new offspring, a bit disappointed that is doesn't speak English and they are too polite to check its sex. So they decide that the child is a girl and name it Daisy — which leads to all manner of future emotional and personality problems when it turns out that Daisy (Anthony Williamson) is actually a boy. The play charts the saga of Daisy's struggle to establish his identity and introduces us to the many zany characters he meets along the way. Durang is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy.

  CLICK HERE for the cast and crew information page. For the 27th year in a row, Temple's team has advanced from the district contest. No other UIL team at Temple High holds such a record. Last year, Temple's entry (On the Verge)  placed 4th in the state, out of over 250 5A schools. This year, Temple is in the 6A classification.

All six Temple students who competed in the UIL District Academic Speech Competition at Belton High on March 27 received medals, with two students winning their contests. Sereniti Patterson was the District Champion in Prose and Olivia Cabrera was the District Champion in Poetry.

Other Prose contestants included Sierra Amalbert (2nd place) and Genevieve Myers (3rd place). Other Poetry contestants included D'Andre Wright (3rd place) and Anthony Williamson (6th place).

The top three places in each contest advance to the Regional Contest at Baylor University on Saturday, April 13.

Pictured from left — D'Andre Wright, Sierra Amalbert, Coach Natasha Tolleson, Olivia Cabrera, Genevieve Myers. Seriniti Patterson, and Anthony WIlliamson.

Temple's UIL One-Act Play team advanced to the area contest from the bi-district contest held at Longview High School contest on Saturday, March 23  Advancing along with Baby and the Bathwater were Rockwall-Heath High (Mariner) and Longview High (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). Copperas Cove was the alternate advancing school. The area contest (Districts 9-10-11-12) will be Saturday, April 6, at the Midway Performing Arts Center, 800 Hewitt Drive, Hewitt, TX 76643. Temple will perform as the 6th and final show, at approximately 4:10 p.m.

Over 250 class 6A schools started the annual contest. At the Area level, only 48 schools remain in the competition.

The other three competitors at area will be decided at their bi-district contest on Thursday, March 28 at Prosper HS. Temple will compete against three of these six schools: McKinney (Sweet Nothing in My Ear), Prosper (Eurydice), Plano (These Shining Lives), North Garland (Shipwrecked!), Wylie (The Book of Will), JJ Pearce (Bob).

Temple's Sierra Amalbert was named Best Actress at the contest. Seth Little and Anthony Williamson were named to the All-Star Cast. Allison Quiroz was named to the All-Star Crew.

NEW: CLICK HERE to view the Facebook Photo Album from the bi-district competition.

Eight Temple students have advanced to the state finals in the annual UIL Theatrical Design Contest. This year's contest involved designs to produce Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in a way that it had not been produced before. The target audience for the design was specified as "children and the adults who love them." Results were announced March 15, 2019.

The student's work will be on display during the state one-act play contests, April 23-26, at the Round Rock ISD Performing Arts Center. Oral critiques will be given on Friday, April 26, with the awards ceremony at 3 p.m. Awards are given for six places, and Temple competes in Division 2, which is 5A and 6A schools.

Temple's group entry will compete against 13 other schools in the division. The group included Isabel Poehlmann, Morgan Madsen, Olivia Cabrera and Allison Quiroz. The theme used was retro 1980s video games.

Set designers advancing to state included Ashlyn Farley (claymation theme) and Anthony Williamson (medieval dark fantasy). Costume designers included Brianna Alexander (whimsical, playful) and Rebecca Alley (bittersweet, texture of latex).

Competing against Temple's group team are Allen, Baytown Goose Creek, Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Keller, Laredo Alexander, Mansfield Legacy, Mission Veterans Memorial, Pharr-San Juan-Alamo North, Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Southwest, San Antonio East Central, Taft, Texarkana Texas and Waco University. Previously, Temple's group team won the State Championship in 2008 (first year of the contest, winning against all Texas schools) and in 2014 (5A and 6A only). Last year, seven students advanced to state and Joseph Espinoza won 6th place in marketing.