Marianna Young
Marianna Young is an aspiring actor who was recently named by an esteemed panel of five professional judges assembled for the 2024 High School Musical Theatre Awards as Best Performer countywide in a Female-Identifying Role for the part of Louise Badger in Cypress Lake High School’s production of Holiday Inn, for which Marianna also received a Broadway Star of the Future as Outstanding Performer in a Supporting Role in a Musical.
More recently, she blew audiences away for her portrayal of Catherine of Aragon 
in Cypress Lake’s production of Six: The Musical.
Locally, Marianna appeared in the role of Medda Larking in Newsies for Belle Theatre, a vaudeville-inspired big-voiced saloon singer and star of the Bowery.
During her tenure at Cypress Lakes High School Center for the Arts, Marianna was a member of the nationally-acclaimed TAG A Cappella vocal group.
Young has been performing in shows for as long as she can remember.
June 18, 2022; updated May 11, 2024.
About the Author
Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.