PAPA Parent Night
On Wednesday, July 19th, PAPA hosted their annual “Dessert & Conversation” event for new students and parents at the Cochise Riverview Club in Vinings. With more than 110 attendees, the evening allowed for a question and answer session with PAPA board members, parent volunteers, and current student ambassadors. This event is held to provide new families with information to achieve a successful transition into the CCCEPA magnet program. A great time was had by all who attended!
Pebblebrook grad: “School prepared me” for Broadway
CCCEPA grad Ryan Breslin is currently performing in the Broadway production of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. The Pebblebrook High School graduate humbly admits that his training through the school’s Cobb County Center for Excellence in Performing Arts sometimes felt like “a full-time job.” Those experiences as a young man prepared him for the grueling life of New York theater.
Check out the full article featuring Ryan in the Marietta Daily Journal HERE!
PLAYBILL: “How Did Four Actors from the Same High School All Get Cast in BOOK OF MORMON?”
What are the odds one show employs four performers in four separate productions—who have all graduated from the same high school—in the same calendar year? Such is the case for K.J. Hippensteel, Jevares Myrick, Billy Harrigan Tighe and Ryan Breslin, who each “served a Mormon mission” in 2014, with Hippensteel, Tighe and Myrick still performing in a version of the show. All four actors graduated Pebblebrook High School’s magnet program: Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts (CCCEPA) in Mableton, GA.
The four rising talents explain how CCCEPA set them up for Mormon success and what it’s like to perform alongside your longtime buddies.
Click HERE to read Playbill’s full feature article.
BACKSTAGE Feature on CCCEPA: “Atlanta Teens Hone Performance Skills in Magnet Program”
Thanks to magnet programs, like Pebblebrook High School’s Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts (CCCEPA), students in metro Atlanta can have the opportunity to pursue their dreams of a performing arts career and hone their skills at an early age, while still experiencing the traditional turns of secondary education.
Check out the Backstage feature on CCCEPA HERE.
CCCEPA Chamber Chorus Performs on NPR’s “From The Top”
The Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts Chamber Chorus performed on NPR’s “From The Top,” recorded at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, on September 19, 2015.
HERE is a link to the CCCEPA bio and recording on the “From The Top” website. Enjoy!
Show bio:
The Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts Chamber Chorus is an ensemble of approximately 50 students taken primarily from the junior and senior classes at the Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts (CCCEPA), a magnet program housed at Pebblebrook High School in Mableton, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. The students draw from across Cobb County in a wide variety of cultural and socio-economic neighborhoods. The vocal program at CCCEPA includes ten different ensembles, ranging from a select Jazz Ensemble to a 200-voice Chorale. Chamber Chorus is considered CCCEPA’s most advanced large ensemble and performs repertoire chiefly from the western classical tradition. All members of Chamber Chorus also participate in the 200-voice Chorale and eight members of Chamber Chorus are selected by the faculty to serve as Chorale Section Leaders.