To congratulate, celebrate, and learn from our peers, the top three schools from the four areas are invited to perform during festival weekend. Four full-length, fully realized productions will be produced. Eight scenes of eight minutes will be performed. Top Recorded Sceneworks scenes will also viewed.
Festival weekend offers a variety of opportunities that encourage artistic growth for both students and teachers. These offerings include workshops led by industry professionals, Second Stage competition, and scholarship opportunities. The three-day festival will also include space for our BIPOC community as part of our BIPOC Action Plan. Future plans for this weekend include college connections.
Awards from the fall adjudication will be presented to attending schools. Scholarship winners from the CETA Scholarship offerings will also be announced.
This is an exciting weekend filled with opportunities for your students to network, meet fellow theatre students, and expand their theatre education.
This weekend celebrates CETA's Mission to create spaces where Every California student will experience the highest standards of theatre arts education.
Mainstage Winner History
2021-2022 Saugus High School Puffs Lakeside High School The Zoo Story Fullerton Union High School The Little Prince San Juan Hills High School Metamorpheses
2020-2021 Digital Festival Beverly Hills High School Gruesome Playground Injuries Western Center Academy Pink Dogs Livermore High School Verbatim Theatre - Belonging
2019-2020 Vista High School The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Capistrano Valley Clue: On Stage Fontana High School Proof John Burroughs High School The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time"
2018 - 2019 Mt. Carmel DOA Lakeside Kimberly Akimbo Fullerton Union The Foreigner John Burroughs The Dark of the Moon
2017-2018 Fullerton Union Secret in the Wings John Burroughs The Laramie Project Citrus Valley One Man, Two Guvnors La Costa Canyon The Love of Three Oranges
2016-2017 Mira Costa Almost, Maine Lakeside Wit Estancia Letters to Sala Murrieta Valley Radium Girls
2015-2016 Chadwick Romeo and Juliet Jurupa Hills Inherit the Wind Mission Viejo The Children’s Hour Mission Vista The Triangle Factory Fire Project
2014-2015 John Burroughs Flowers for Algernon Lakeside 12 Angry WoMen Mission Viejo The Laramie Project Rancho Buena Vista Never Saw Another Butterfly
2013-2014 Charter Oak Twentieth Century Jurupa Hills The Boys Next Door Newport Harbor Our Town Rancho Buena Vista The Diviners
2012-2013 Estancia. A Midsummer Night's Dream Lakeside The Boys Next Door Westview The Odd Couple Chadwick Comedy of Errors
2011-2012 John Burroughs The Crucible Huntington Beach APA Leading Ladies Lakeside Once in a Lifetime Westview To Kill a Mockingbird
2010-2011 Newport Harbor Noises Off Culver City The Laramie Project Rancho Buena Vista Anatomy of Gray Lakeside Emma's Child
2009-2010 Jurupa Valley Lend me a Tenor Culver City Nicholas Nickleby Capistrano Valley Rumors Christian The Ash Girl
2008-2009 Highland Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead Los Osos Leading Ladies Tesoro The Merry Wives of Windsor Westview The Tempest
2007-2008 Tesoro Comedy of Errors Rolling Hills Prep Don't Drink the Water Etiwanda Pound Rancho Buena Vista A Shayna Maidel
2006-2007 Palos Verdes Rebel Without a Cause Los Osos Noises Off Temescal Canyon The Foreigner
2005-2006 Riverside Poly Tartuffe: Born Again Torrey Pines Inherit the Wind St Francis Romeo and Juliet
2004-2005 Temescal Canyon The Diary of Anne Frank Windward Much Ado About Nothing Villa Park The Best Man
2003-2004 Windward The Prodigious Son Upland The Crucible Torrey Pines Metamorphoses
2002-2003 Newport Harbor The Diviners Chapparal You Can’t Take It With You La Costa Canyon Rumors
2001-2002 Rancho Buena Vista The Crucible Etiwanda Taking Steps Palos Verdes Peninsula The American Clock
2000-2001 Mt. Carmel Do Not Go Gentle Riverside Poly Rumors Newport Harbor The Importance of Being Ernest
1999-2000 El Dorado Jane Eyre University Romeo and Juliet La Serna The Diviners
1998-1999 Diamond Bar Play On! La Quinta The Miracle Worker Rancho Buena Vista Six Characters in Search of an Author
1997-1998 Mt. Carmel The Crucible Upland The Diviners Palos Verdes Peninsula A Midsummer Night's Dream
1996-1997 Rancho Bernardo Brighton Beach Memoirs La Quinta Romeo and Juliet La Serna The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1995-1996 Etiwanda Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead El Rancho God's Country San Dieguito A View from the Bridge
1994-1995 La Serna Lend Me a Tenor Etiwanda Bullshot Crummond Rancho Bernardo Inspecting Carol
1993-1994 La Serna Rumors Upland David and Lisa La Jolla A Piece of My Heart
1992-1993 Estancia Macbeth Newport Harbor Children of a Lesser God Sunny Hills The Canterbury Tales
1991-1992 Palm Springs Rumors California A Flea in Her Ear San Dieguito The Diviners
1990-1991 Patrick Henry Brighton Beach Memoirs Chatsworth The House of Blue Leaves Sunny Hills The Dining Room
1989-1990 Arlington Equus La Jolla And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson California Dirty Works at the Crossroads
1988-1989 California The Foreigner Palm Springs Absurd Person Singular Rancho Buena Vista A Midsummer Night's Dream
1987-1988 Chatsworth The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Estancia The Dining Room Eisenhower To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
1986-1987 Palisades Viet Rock Patrick Henry The Trial Palm Springs Noises Off
1985-1986 La Serna Amadeus El Camino Macbeth San Dieguito Foxfire
1984-1985Beverly Hills Lady Audley's Secret Patrick Henry The Dining Room California Voices from the High School
1983-1984 El Toro Our Town University The Good Doctor Palm Springs The Skin of Our Teeth
1982-1983 Estancia The Man Who Came to Dinner Walnut A Cry of Players El Rancho A View from the Bridge
1981-1982 Walnut Company of Wayward Saints Palisades Strider Patrick Henry The Rimers of Eldritch
1980-1981 Birmingham You Can't Take It With You Corona Tartuffe Mission Viejo Summer and Smoke
1979-1980 Granada Hills The Servant of Two Masters Mission Viejo The Crucible University Story Theatre
1978-1979 Charter Oak The Miser Granada Hills David and Lisa Mission Viejo Dark of the Moon
1977-1978 Beverly Hills A Midsummer Night's Dream Buena Park Sunshine Boys Charter Oak Johnny Belinda
1976-1977 Charter Oak The Royal Hunt of the Sun Grant Dark of the Moon Venice A Midsummer Night's Dream
1975-1976 Beverly Hills U.S.A. Canoga ParkAll My Sons Charter Oak Life With Father
1974-1975 Beverly Hills Story Theatre Charter Oak All the Way Home Grant The Rimers of Eldritch
1973-1974 Charter Oak Dark of the Moon Hollywood Story Theatre Kearny Hamlet
1972-1973 California The House of Blue Leaves Kearny Death of a Salesman Hollywood A Midsummer Night's Dream
1971-1972 Birmington The Serpent Canoga Park The Miser Cleveland The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie