Congratulations to the cast and crew of Athens Academy’s one-act play Quilters, which has placed first in the region for Class A Private. In addition, senior Sara Mack Lowe was awarded “Best Actress” honors for the region. The company will compete in the GHSA State One Act Competition on Saturday, November 13, at Perry High School in Perry, Georgia.

Congratulations to director Lorraine Thompson and to company members Renee Cargill, Lee Chandler, Eliza Connolly, Maddie Connor, Mills Crosland, Phillip Doherty, Julia Drake, Kate Farmer, Norah Iezzi, Sara Mack Lowe, Alexis Keeney, Kartik Menke, Mikaella Murph, Harper Purcell, Emaani Sims, Ainslee Stonecipher, and Charlotte Wilhite.

Quilters is a musical by Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek, and lyrics and music by Barbara Damashek. It is about the lives of American pioneer women based on the book The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art by Patricia Cooper and Norma Bradley Allen. The show was originally developed and produced by the Denver Center Theater Company. It had a brief run on Broadway in 1984. The stories told in this play speak of the hardships and joys of pioneer life through the lens of the prairie woman. Women—mothers, daughters, sisters, and wives—living and surviving in the wilderness left a legacy. Unlike the memoirs bound in books, their life stories were stitched in fabric— storytelling by quilts.

Athens Academy is an independent, co-educational school for students in K3 through 12th grade, located on a beautiful 152-acre campus in Northeast Georgia. Now in its 55th year, Athens Academy pursues its mission of “excellence with honor” through academics, athletics, fine arts, and service and leadership. Ranked the #1 private school in Athens, #9 private school in the state of Georgia, and #1 private school outside Metro Atlanta (Niche.com).

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