SCHOLARSHIPS

Each year the Loveland Stage Company recognizes a graduating high school student with its Creative Arts Scholarship.

The Loveland Stage Company is offering a scholarship again this year in the amount of $1000. In order to qualify for the scholarship, the graduating student must reside in the Loveland City School District, attend Loveland High School, or be an offspring of a Loveland Stage Company member. This scholarship is intended to be used toward college or university tuition, room and board, or books.

The Loveland Stage Company wishes to encourage and support young local talent. Therefore, prospective applicants must be planning to further their education in the Creative Arts. Qualifying areas of study include, but are not limited to: art, music, theater, photography, film, dance, and majors that support these studies. Students are asked to submit examples of their talent in their chosen field and a high school transcript demonstrating the ability to succeed academically as part of the application process.

The LSC Scholarship Application is due no later than Sunday March 16, 2025.

Additionally, Loveland Stage Company is offering a one-time $1000 scholarship to a graduating Loveland High School Senior in memory of our founder, Pat Furterer. Besides founding the theater, Pat was very involved in the Loveland community, served on many committees, and was a Valentine Lady. But the Loveland Stage Company was her baby and she acted in, directed, produced, and watched as many plays as she could in its 40-plus years of existence.

Loveland High School has been a part of the theater’s history. It served as its first home after outgrowing Pat’s backyard productions and was a temporary home for the production of The Pajama Game which was in its run when the fire occurred in 2008.

Because of the relationship, the Loveland Stage Company and the Furterer family have designated funds given in Pat’s memory to be used for an LHS graduate who has been involved in at least 1 Loveland Stage Company production and is going into either the creative/performing arts or a community-related field.

Interested students should fill out the Pat Furterer Scholarship Application and return it by the March 16, 2025 deadline. Any questions should be directed to the LSC Scholarship Chair, Theresa Kovacs at ttkovacs4@gmail.com.

2024 Scholarship Winner: Sophia Herbon

Sophia Herbon, a 2024 graduate of Loveland High School, is the Loveland Stage Company Creative Arts Scholarship recipient for 2024.

Sophia is attending Anderson University in Indiana, majoring in Musical Theater and Arts Management.  She hopes to realize her dream job as a performer but also “how to navigate and contribute to the professional world in the arts and strengthen my talents so that I can best be prepared for new opportunities.”

Sophia has been a part of every choir at Loveland High School – vocal ensemble, Resonance A Capella group, the all-female Allure Show Choir, and the award-winning By Request mixed show choir.  She was one of the anchors of the LHS News Network, and a member of National Honor Society.  She has worked as a hostess at Ramsey’s Trailside restaurant for the last 3 years.

On stage, Sophia had a leading role in Loveland Stage Company’s summer production of Groovy! in 2021.  At the high school, Sophia has been a part of all 8 of the drama productions.  She was twice nominated for a Cappie award – in 2024 for female dancer, and in 2023 for supporting actor in a female role in a musical as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz.  In the fall of 2023, she was a featured dancer in the school’s production of Something Rotten! and served as a dance captain and choreographer for the ensemble numbers in the show.

We wish Sophia well in her college experience and hope to see her back in the spotlight at Loveland Stage Company sometime in the future.


Previous Scholarship Winners
  • Sophia Herbon (2024)
  • Ella Skolnicki (2023)
  • Alton French (2022)
  • Anna Colletto (2021)
  • Jett Stevens (2020)
  • Gabe Schmidt, Molly Shilling (2019)
  • Delaney Dunster (2018)
  • Max Schilling (2017)
  • Cassidy Alaina Sanders (2016)
  • Abby Smith, Kyle Pessell (2015)
  • Jenna Adkins (2014)
  • Kayla Cavano, Drew Kovacs (2013)
  • James Downing (2012)
  • David Rutter, Nathan Robbins (2011)
  • Bridget Sova, Gretchen Kessler (2010)
  • Krista Adkins (2009)
  • Chelsea McCarty (2008)
  • Leah Sos (2007)
  • Lauren Hicks (2006)
  • Kristen Robinson (2005)
  • Deborah Ball (2004)
  • Cynthia K. Wilmes (2003)
  • Lauren Pellechia (2002)
  • William Cole, Kevin Reichling (2001)
  • Chad Boyd (2000)
  • Nicholas Dyson, Cathrine Arnold (1999)
  • Betsy Barre (1998)
  • Victoria Lorenz, Jonathan Goolsby, Stacey Schaaff (1997)
  • Mike Hall, Ashley Palmer (1996)
  • Sawna Talley (1995)
  • Christin Masters (1994)
  • Tammy Sroufe (1993)
  • Garland Edwards, Phillip Crawford (1992)
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