The Rita Moreno Awards

Each year, we nominate our musical productions in the Rita Moreno Awards, which is a local awards competition that recognizes outstanding achievement in high school musical theater throughout Northern California.

Check out below for some of the nominations and wins Burlingame High School has received!

Nico Bennett, Class of 2025

Nico was nominated and won for Leading Actor in his role as Nick Bottom in Something Rotten for our spring 2025 production. He then attended and performed in the 2025 Jimmy Awards in New York City!


Lucas Keeley, Class of 2025

Lucas was nominated for Supporting Actor in his role as Professor Ted Scheider in our production of Disaster! in for our spring 2023 production.

Gina Saccuman, Class of 2026 & Aidan Vega, Class of 2027

Aidan and Gina were recently nominated for Best Lead Actor and Actress in their roles as Mark Cohen and Maureen Johnson in our production of Rent! for our spring 2026 production. The ceremony will take place on Monday, May 12th!