2025 Live Results - Wednesday, June 11th

Speech Arts - Solo - Beginner to Junior Levels

St. Matthew's Lutheran Church - Fellowship Hall

Speech Arts - Beginner Level - Ages 6-8

1st PlaceSofia TorisHome Festival:TorontoTitles:
Ann, And: A Short Drama by Alan Haehnel
Lucy, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown by Clark M. Gesner
Mary Lennox, The Secret Garden by Isabella Russell-Ides
2nd PlaceFinn Flight-GillardHome Festival:South SimcoeTitles:
Dewey, "When Bad Things Happen to Good Actors" by Ian McWethy & Jason Pizzarello
Charlie, "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown" by Clark Gesner
Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Based on the book by Roald Dahl and Dramatized by Richard R. George
3rd PlaceIsaac ReitzelHome Festival:NewmarketTitles:
Smart, Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Schroeder, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown by Charles Schulz, Clark Gesner
Being Brave At Night by Edgar Albert Guest
Honourable MentionEvelyn McDougallHome Festival:BrantTitles:
Hope by Emily Dickinson
The Secret Place, The Ice Cream Store by Dennis Lee
In The Fashion, When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne
Honourable MentionFaith MartinHome Festival:NorfolkTitles:
The Arrow and The Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter
Alligator Pie by Dennis Lee

Speech Arts - Primary Level - Ages 9-10

1st PlaceMagdalene ReitzelHome Festival:NewmarketTitles:
Blackmail by Sofia C.
Mrs. Wright Is Wrong by Jadyn Jones
A Little Princess Monologue, A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
2nd PlaceEmily ChangHome Festival:TorontoTitles:
Verruca Salt, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, adapted by Richard George
Sir Smashum Uppe by E.V. Rieu
Little Jack Horner by Emily Chang
3rd PlaceAlana TorisHome Festival:TorontoTitles:
Veruca Salt, Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by David Greig
Arithmetic by Carl Sandburg
Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Honourable MentionNathan PanHome Festival:North York LiveTitles:
Arnie the doughnut by Laurie Keller
The Secret Place by Dennis Lee
Coat Hanger Sculpture by Clark Gesner
ParticipantClara FlattHome Festival:BrantTitles:
Sick by Shel Silverstein
Do Not Worry, 6:25-34 NIV by Matthew
If You Should Meet a Crocodile by Christine Fletcher
ParticipantNatalie TruongHome Festival:PeelTitles:
You're a good man, Charlie Brown by C. M. Schulz
The Sneeze by S. Fitch
Granny Boot by S. Milligan

Speech Arts - Elementary Level - Ages 11-12

1st PlaceAbby SerfatyHome Festival:NewmarketTitles:
Matilda Monologue, Matilda The Musical by Dennis Kelly
Fiona Monologue, Shrek by William Steig
Why Do I Have To Go To Bed? by Abby Serfaty
2nd PlaceAndrew FungHome Festival:TorontoTitles:
Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare
3rd PlaceViolet YoungHome Festival:KingstonTitles:
Threw a Looking Glass by Anne Mortensen
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene I, Fairy/Peaseblossom by William Shakespeare
A Mosquito in the Cabin by Myra Stilborn
Honourable MentionArthur ZadroHome Festival:MidwesternTitles:
The Destruction of Sennacherib by George Gordon Byron
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II (76-109) by William Shakespeare
Robinson Crusoe's Story by Charles Edward Carryl
Honourable MentionValora PanHome Festival:North York LiveTitles:
The war between vowels and the consonants by Priscilla Turner
The road not taken by Robert Frost
The Great Dictator - Final Speech by Charles Chaplin

Speech Arts - Junior Level - Ages 13-14

1st PlaceEmma Victoria TagliabueHome Festival:Pickering RotaryTitles:
Uncle Bud's Monologue as Heather, Salem's Daughter by Craig Sodaro
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Drivers Licence Monlogue as Josephine, Rememberin' Stuff by Eleanor Harder
2nd PlaceKolbe ReitzelHome Festival:NewmarketTitles:
Jailhouse Wolf by Konrad Poniatowski
ADHD and Me by Kolbe Reitzel
How Do You Silence Your Phone? by Addison Steffer
3rd PlaceSamantha RixmannHome Festival:NorfolkTitles:
La Soupe Aux Cailloux, N/A by Alison Hawes
Brooke's Monologue, Makin' It by Cynthia Mercati
Don't Blame the Muse, Mused by Gabriel Davis
Honourable MentionNickie Fathi-KazerouniHome Festival:TorontoTitles:
The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act 1, Scene 2, Julia (line 106 - Verse) by William Shakespeare
If I were loved, as I desire to be by Alfred Lord Tennyson
As Good as Dead, The Finale to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
Honourable MentionRukmini ChariHome Festival:PeelTitles:
R is for Rebel by J. Anderson Coats
Le Gorille by Georges Brassens
Wait Wait Bo Bait by Lindsay Price
ParticipantAlexis D'CostaHome Festival:TorontoTitles:
Matilda, Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death, Oxford Children’s Poetry by Hilaire Belloc
Number the Stars, Act 2, Scene 5 by Lois Lowry, adapted by Douglas W. Larche
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 2, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare
ParticipantKai KerrHome Festival:KingstonTitles:
Fenwick’s Monologue, The Mourning After the Night Before by Chloe Whitehorn
Seven Stages of Man, As You Like It (Act II scene vii) by William Shakespeare
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelly