EDUCATION News:
The 2026 Enchantment Awards nominees have been announced and include three Los Alamos High School (LAHS) students who performed in this year’s production of Mean Girls.
2026 Enchantment Awards nominees from LAHS:
- Best actress nominee: Maici E. Guise;
- Best supporting actor nominee: Zachary Sestric; and
- Best supporting actress nominee: Aubrey Ruston.
The complete announcement of all nominees is at https://www.youtube.com/
The 2026 Enchantment Awards production is 7 p.m. Sunday, May 3, at Popejoy Hall on the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque. In addition to awards presented at the production, two students, one male and one female, will be selected to represent New Mexico at the Jimmy Awards (https://www.jimmyawards.com/) on Broadway in New York City, all expenses paid.
The host of this year’s Enchantment Awards production is Devon McCleskey, the Enchantment Awards’ very first best actor winner (2016) and a Los Alamos High School graduate. McCleskey graduated from University of Michigan with a BFA in Musical Theater. He has toured with productions of Cats and Pretty Woman. Earlier this year, he appeared in the New York City Center Encores! production of High Spirits.
The Enchantment Awards show is produced by New Mexico High School Musical Theatre Awards, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. https://www.nmhsmta.org/. NMHSMTA’s volunteer adjudicators attend high school musicals throughout the state. Enchantment Awards participants are selected from those high schools.