Every year, the KSTO banquet consists of an award ceremony.
This year’s are themed the KSTO-ny Awards! Below are the awards, please comment with your nominations! If someone already nominated someone you were thinking of, you do NOT need to nominate them again. Voting polls will go out after nominations close.
Nominations will close tomorrow, Tuesday May 3, at 5 p.m.
Happy KSTO-ny season!
-KSTO Officers
Best Couple – Onstage
Best Dress(er) – Second Stage Costume Designer
Most Enthusiastic Newcomer – Freshman or newly involved student with most activity/enthusiasm
Sassiest Stitcher – Costumer Shop Worker
Biggest Tool – Scene Shop Worker
Best Fight – Onstage
The Vellenga – Student upholding KSTO’s values of professionalism, positivity, and community
Best Dress(ed) – Student Set Design
Double Threat – Singer/actor (Look beyond the musical, every main stage production had singing this year!)
The Shannon – Most studious student

Gotta get those AYLI couples out there! Orlando/Rosalind, Celia/Oliver, Silvius/Phoebe, Touchstone/Audrey!
Most enthusiastic newcomer- Trace Campbell
The Vellenga- Darrington Clark
The Shannon- Jonah Ericson
Best couple onstage – Kelly Urschel and Noah Lindquist in A Christmas Carol
Best Dresser – Peighton Jamison for LaB & LS
Most Enthusiastic Newcomer – Sterling Oliver
Sassiest Stitcher – Sarah Hutchison
Biggest Tool – Chase Rossman
Best Fight – Darrington Clark and Grant Rogers in As You Like It
The Vellenga – Madison Plouvier
Best Dressed – Set designer for The Shape of Things (sorry, I don’t remember their name)
Double Threat – Nicole Casonhua for Forward
The Shannon – Jonah Ericson
Newcomer- Grant Rogers
Best Couple- Rachel Hunt and Darrington Clark
Best Fight- Grant Rogers and Darrington Clark
Vellenga-Darrington Clark
Double Threat-Darrington Clark
Sassiest Stitcher- Blake Cordell
Double Threat- Jonah Ericson
Shannon- Hunter Nelson
Newcomer- Hunter Nelson
Best Couple: Darrington Clark and Madison Plouvier
Biggest Tool: Ken Stark
The Vellenga: Robert Chase Rossman
Best Couple – Kristan and Tori 😀
Newcomer- Kaitlin Kirby
The Vellenga- Ben Deghand
Double Threat- Jonah Ericson
Best couple: the fezziwigs (Madison Moore and Corbin Eakes)
Best dresser: Kelsi Briggs
Most enthusiastic newcomer: liberty Kalin
Sassiest stitcher: McKenzey hall
Biggest tool: Jonah Ericson
Best fight: all of the abuse of Cody la crone in As you like it
The Vellenga: gabby Browne
Best dressed: Ken stark
Double threat: Blake Cordell
The Shannon: Lucy McDonald
Newcomer – Cooper McGuire
Vellenga – Mallory Diekmann
Couple – Corbin Eakes & Madison Moore (A Christmas Carol)/Zac Donley & Mark Hay (Inn-dependent)
Double Threat – Sam Massey (Christmas Carol/Forward), Kelly Urschel (The Consul), Madison Moore (The Consul)
Best Fight – Kelli Jones & Tori Ptacek (American Tet)
Couple- Darrington and Madison (as you like it.)
Sassiest stitcher- Shanna
Biggest tool – ken stark
Best fight – Darrington and grant
Double threat – Noah lindquist
The Shannon – Will averna
Best Dress(er): Elena Andrus, Dutchman
Most Enthusiastic Newcomer: Shiana Tyler
The Vellenga: Kelli Jones
Best Dress(ed): Ken Stark, Dutchman
Best Couple – Onstage: Kelli Jones and Darrington Clark, Dutchman
Best Fight – Onstage: Kelli Jones and Darrington Clark, Dutchman
Sassiest Stitcher: Kelsi Briggs
The Vellenga: Kathrine Boulanger
Best Couple – Onstage
Madison Plouvier and Darrington Clark (AYLI)
Best Dress(er) – Second Stage Costume Designer
Costume Designer for Dutchman
Most Enthusiastic Newcomer – Freshman or newly involved student with most activity/enthusiasm
Shiana
Biggest Tool – Scene Shop Worker
Chase Rossman
Best Fight – Onstage
Grant Rogers and Darrington Clark (AYLI)
The Vellenga – Student upholding KSTO’s values of professionalism, positivity, and community
Darrington Clark
Best Dress(ed) – Student Set Design
Set for Dutchman
Double Threat – Singer/actor (Look beyond the musical, every main stage production had singing this year!)
Kelly U. (The woman can do everything)
The Shannon – Most studious student
LUCY McDONALD 🙂
Best Couple – Madison Plouvier and Darrington Clark (AYLI)
Best Dress(er) – Kelsi Briggs
Most Enthusiastic Newcomer – Trace Campbell
Sassiest Stitcher – Mckenzey Hall
Biggest Tool – Chase Rossman
Best Fight – Kelli Jones and Darrington Clark (The Dutchman)
The Vellenga – Mallory Diekmann
Best Dress(ed) – Ken Stark
Double Threat – Blake Cordell
The Shannon – Lucy McDonald
Best Couple: Trace Campbell/Tori Everett – Shape of Things
Most Enthusiastic Newcomer: Donnovan Watts
Sassiest Sticher: Kelsi Briggs
Biggest Tool: Chase Rossman
Best Fight: Clay Massingill vs. Trace Campbell – Shape of Things
The Vellenga: Blake Cordell
Double Threat: Mark Hay
The Shannon: Clay Massingill
Best Couple: Jonah and Mallory (AYLI)
Most Enthusiastic Newcomer: Cooper McGuire
Sassiest Stitcher: EH Petropulos
Best Fight: Darrington and Grant (AYLI)
The Vellenga: Mallory Diekmann
Double Threat: Noah Lindquist
The Shannon: Lucy McDonald
Best fight: grant and jonahs punch
Double threat: mal’s rap
Both best dresseds: American Tet
Stitcher: eh
Tool: soccer chris
Newcomer: the mackays