Ramya Auroprem Spelling Bee Finalist Appears In San Jose's Cast Of SPELLING BEE

Scripp's National Spelling Bee Finalist, Ramya Auroprem, Appears with the Cast of San Jose Repertory Theatre's "Spelling Bee!"

Ramya Auroprem will join the cast of San Jose Repertory Theatre's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee as one of four audience volunteers on Saturday, June 6 for the 3:00pm performance. At each performance, four audience members are selected and invited onstage to participate in the "Bee."

Immediately following the performance, Auroprem will join the cast in the Rep's post-show discussion, an informal Q&A session, which gives audience members an opportunity to meet the cast and discuss the performance. The post-show discussion will be led by San Jose Rep's Director of Outreach, Karen Altree Piemme.

San Jose resident Ramya Auroprem recently placed fifth in the 2009 Scripp's National Spelling Bee Competition. The competition was held on May 29, 2009, at the Grand Hyatt Washington, in Washington, D.C. She is an 8th grader at Joaquin Miller Middle School. Auroprem is fascinated by linguistics and is eager to learn new languages. She is fluent in Tamil and is currently studying French.

Saturday, June 6, 2009, for the matinee performance at 3:00pm.

San Jose Repertory Theatre
101 Paseo de San Antonio
Downtown San Jose

Photo courtesy of SFGate.com

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