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Pierre Madlangbayan Wins First Place in 2023 People's Choice Award

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Pierre Beatrix Madlangbayan, a junior from Garden City High School, Garden City, Kansas, won First Place in the People's Choice Award. Pierre won First Place in the ESU Kansas City Branch Semi-Finals. The People's Choice Awards were announced by ESU Chairman, Dr. E. Quinn Peeper during the ESU National Shakespeare Competition Finals held at Lincoln Center in New York City, April 25, 2023. 

Out of the 41 students who entered the National Shakespeare Competition's People's Choice Award, Pierre received the most votes from her classmates, friends, and relatives, both in Garden City, Kansas, and the Philippines for her performance of the character of Mark Antony from the play Julius Caesar and reciting a Shakespeare sonnet.

(Left) Bill Kennedy, President of the ESU Cleveland Branch, presents People's Choice Award to Pierre, a student from the ESU Kansas City Branch.

The People's Choice Awards are granted to the three students who receive the most votes from classmates, friends, and relatives after watching their Shakespeare video monologue performance and sonnet recitation.

Three awards: First Place winner receives $1,000 (generously provided by the ESU Cleveland Branch); Second Place winner receives $500 from ESU National; and Third Place winner receives $250 from National.

The three People's Choice Award winners and votes are:

  • First Place: Pierre Beatrix Madlangbayan, ESU Kansas City Branch—565 votes 
  • Second Place: Tucker Claremont, ESU Naples Branch—475 votes 
  • Third Place: Victoria Salazar, ESU San Francisco Branch—365 votes 

Ben Martin, President of the Kansas City Branch, sent congratulations to Pierre, "On behalf of all ESU Kansas City members and our board of directors, we are excited that you won First Place in the People's Choice Award. Your friends and family have supported you all the way during the ESU National Shakespeare Competition. Congratulations!"

Nearly 8,000 people from around the world voted for this year's ESU National Shakespeare Competition's People's Choice Award. 

 

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