The Upper School at Hershey Montessori will bring to the stage a completely student-produced production of The Importance of Being Earnest May 5 – 7. This is the second production entirely produced, directed and performed by the students at Hershey Upper School.
Hershey Montessori Upper School, which launched in the 2015-16 school year with its first class of 10th graders, operates on Hershey’s 97-acre campus in Huntsburg, Ohio. As part of their educational experience, students are encouraged to pursue jobs as managers around the farm campus. As theater and arts manager, Cameron Zona is producing, directing his classmates and acting in a lead role in Oscar Wilde’s comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde would be proud to know that, 122 years after his play was first staged, young adults are taking on his work.
This is the second time Zona, has led Hershey students in an ambitious theatrical performances. In the 2015-16 school year, he directed and acted in Ira Levin’s Death Trap. Theater is a personal passion for Zona, who has performed in several regional theater productions throughout Northeast Ohio.
This play is a unique opportunity to see a play in which students, alone, are responsible for every aspect of directing, acting, planning, concessions, props and marketing – including the distribution of this press release. Performances will be at the Huntsburg Campus, located at 11530 Madison Road in Huntsburg, 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 5, and Saturday, May 6, and at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, May 7.
For more information or to reserve tickets, contact Cameron Zona at cameronzona@gmail.com. To learn more about Hershey Montessori School, please contact Head of School Paula Leigh-Doyle at 440-357-0918.
About Hershey Montessori School
Hershey Montessori School offers a world-renowned, land-based program that provides children with carefully prepared learning environments to foster personal and academic growth, independence, responsibility and joyful, lifelong learning. With the opening of the Hershey Montessori Upper School in 2015, HMS became the first in the world to provide a fully immersive, land-based curriculum with a residential component following Maria Montessori’s vision for educating children from infancy through high school. HMS has a letter of charter by the Ohio Department of Education as an independent private school serving students through 9th grade. HMS is a member of AMI (Association Montessori Internationale) and OAIS (Ohio Association of Independent Schools). For more information, visit Hershey-Montessori School.
Pictured In Photos
- Pictured In Top Left Photo: Anika Muliolis, 8th grade, Cameron Zona, 11th grade, Max Nikula, 9th grade, Lucy McNees, 8th grade.
(Other cast members not pictured are: August Agawa, 12th grade, Noah DeSantis, 10th grade, Sarah Downer, 11th grade and Josh Neece, 8th grade and Julie Reed. Production Assistance by Lucas Susan and Daniel Bender). - Pictured In Top Right Photo: Max Nikula, 9th grade and Cameron Zona, 11th grade.
- Pictured In Bottom Left Photo: Anika Muliolis, 8th grade and Cameron Zona, 11th grade.
- Pictured In Bottom Center Photo: Anika Muliolis, 8th grade and Lucy McNees, 8th grade.
- Pictured In Bottom Right Photo: Lucy McNees, 8th grade and Max Nikula, 9th grade.
