Whiz Kid of the Week: Allison Charde Leaves the 'Class Clown' on the Dressing Room Floor

Name, age: Allison Charde, 16

School:

Achievement: She dedicates herself to drama and song and earned herself a lead role in this year's winter high school production.

Key to Awesomeness: Allison Charde has been participating in school plays since she was in sixth grade and as a junior earned a lead role.

She has graced the stage in all of the East Hampton High School productions she could but this is the first year she got a part where she sung an entire song, let alone two.

Last year she had a solo part as Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast, in which she received a Teeny nomination for best supporting actress.

Allison excelled as the character Nancy, one of the main roles in , according to Assistant Director Debbie Mansir. Allison found her way into the part of the battered woman. Allison said, "You get up there, once you don’t have to read from the script, you close your eyes and say the words and feel your way into it.”

According to Allison, she is a bit of a class clown. "When I’m up on stage I let people in on a whole other side of me that would shock anyone in day to day life. I like being someone else for a bit.”

To compliment her participation in theater, she partakes in two singing ensembles: an all female singing group and a selective co-ed one.

Additionally, she is on staff at The Beachcombers Newspaper at her school. She said that writing has always been a big part of her life and when in college she wants to take some writing classes.

Although, Allison said she is not really a “jock” and associates herself with the drama kids, she has her hand in athletics. As a junior she is the starting goalie for the varsity lacrosse team.

Her dream is to major in theater and she could see she herself at SUNY Fredonia because it is a big art and music school with a lot of interesting people.