Waterford District High School
Article content originally published in the Brantford Expositor on April 3, 2026 by Brian Thompson
BCI students (left to right) Emilia Witmer-Petitti, director; Genevieve Wey, festival stage manager, and Mackenzie Langille, production manager had key roles in the staging of The Overview, a play written by teacher Jan St. Denis (right) and performed during the National Theatre School's district level DramaFest this week in Brantford. Photo by Brian Thompson /The Expositor
Budding young actors, directors, and stage crews from seven area high schools staged their productions at Brantford Collegiate Institute this week during the district level competition of the National Theatre School’s DramaFest.
As the largest youth theatre festival in the province involving more than 12,000 high school students and educators annually, NTS DramaFest marks its 80th anniversary this year with district, regional, and provincial festivals throughout Ontario.
BCI’s entry in the district-level competition was The Overview, written by teacher Jan St. Denis.
The three winning productions – Every Day I Wake Up by Waterford District High School; Radium Girls by Cayuga Secondary School; and The Day the Internet Died by McKinnon Park Secondary School – will move on to a regional festival in Hamilton later in April.
