This past weekend, Burbank High School 11th grader Gwyneth Glover won the California High School Speech Association’s State Championship in Dramatic Interpretation at the 2026 CHSSA State Tournament, which was held April 17th-19th at James Logan High School in Union City, CA. In doing so, she became the first speech and debate state champion in Burbank High School history.
In Dramatic Interpretation, competitors are tasked with selecting and cutting a published work, and performing it without notes, costumes, or props. Performing as Marilyn Monroe in “The Unremarkable Death of Marilyn Monroe”, a one-woman play by Elton Townend Jones, Gwyneth competed in a field of 56 competitors in her event, each of whom qualified to the State Championship out of hundreds of competitors from 11 leagues from across the state. Gwyneth competed across 5 rounds and was ranked by 17 separate judges from all corners of California. In 2025, Gwyneth…..