One Act Play

One Act Play is a division of the Wisconsin High School Forensic Association.  The season runs from September through November.  Judging determines if the play advances from district to sectional  and state levels.  Students audition for parts, and if there is enough interest, a JV play will also run.

Advisor:  Amy Tubbs

For information

Go to PHS theater website.

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Achievements

• Under the direction of Amy Tubbs, the one-act play has advanced to the state competition 28 of the 29 times since 1990: 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
• Critic’s Choice Award, which is the highest award given at state: 2002, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025.
• State Ensemble Acting Award, which is given to the whole cast because of exemplary acting as a team: 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
• Outstanding Technical Award, which is given to the stage crew for exemplary work: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025.

State Individual Outstanding Acting Awards:

• 1996, Aaron Berg and Leif Posey
• 1997, Leif Posey
• 1998, Tina Thompson
• 2015, Matthew Courchaine and ChaChi Wood
• 2017, Ava Baenen, Kailee Kryger, Lauren Lacera, Autumn Rettke, and Geovanni Virella-Torres
• 2018,  Ava Baenen,  Hunter Chrisman
• 2019, Marcus Moss
• 2020, Grayson Rondou 
• 2021 Ryan Bouchard, Abigail Cheney, and Tim Huber
• 2022 Tim Huber and Audryn Just
• 2023 Hayden Witte
• 2024 Emma Ahlswede, Leatrice Dyal, Katherine Hurley, Aiden Winn, Cooper Witte, Hayden Witte, Saige Wirtz
• 2025 Aiden Winn

WHSFA Hall of Fame Inductee: Actors who have earned two or more individual acting awards are inducted.

• 2016 Leif Posey

State Outstanding Directing Award

• Amy Tubbs, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 
• The cast wrote their own play for the competition and advanced to state: 1994, 1997, 2004
• In 2023, Amy Tubbs was inducted into the WISDAA Directing Hall of Fame.

Photo gallery

To see a downloadable photo gallery of the last fall play, go here.

One-act website

For more information on the PHS one-act play, go here.