Previous Winners' Showcases

2016 Winners

First Place

Kevin Yiyang Li
Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare

Crystal Lin
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot

Aaron Sun
Sonnet 130; Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Michael Lau
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Cindy Xin Yi Xu
Death Comes to Us All, Mary Agnes by Christopher Durang

Darren Sayson
Sonnet 55; Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Kevin Yiyang Li Crystal Lin Aaron Sun Michael Lau Cindy Xin Yi Xu Darren Sayson

Second Place

Hansen Ze Liang Zeng
Sonnet 130; Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

Jasper Liu
Noah by Roy Daniells

Nina Eastveld
Boo by Robert Munsch

Samuel Gan
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Victor Tong
Children at War by Victor Tong

Andrew Chen Kai Huang
A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Emily Liu
Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel

William Liang
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Daniel Yan
A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning by John Donne

Hansen Ze Liang Zeng Jasper Liu Nina Eastveld Samuel Gan Victor Tong Andrew Chen Kai Huang Emily Liu William Liang Daniel Yan

Third Place

David Zhang
Wind Pictures by Mary O'Neill

Angela Jiang
War - A Survival Game by Angela Jiang

Maria Lin
Silences by E. J. Pratt

Phillip Xia
A Different Approach to North Korea by Phillip Xia

Jean-Marc Bedaux
Sonnet 116; Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

Phoebe Pang
How One Winter Came In The Lake Region by William Wilfred Campbell

David Zhang Angela Jiang Maria Lin Phillip Xia Jean-Marc Bedaux Phoebe Pang

“It usually takes me more
than three weeks to prepare
a good impromptu speech.”
— Mark Twain

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