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We hope everyone enjoyed summer and is ready for another creative year ahead at COSA!

Our COSA Newsletter is sent out to COSA Families at least once a month. A link to the COSA Newsletter can also be accessed in The Islander that Karin Melina sends out weekly. In our COSA Newsletter we not only share all of the upcoming performance and exhibition dates and ticket information for all COSA Conservatories, but also share import logistical information that pertains to COSA Families. Please take a moment to look over our newsletters and stay informed.

If you have any COSA related questions, our contact information will always be at the end of the newsletter for your convenience.

Back to School Night

August 20 2025 at 5:00 p.m.

Welcome Session in Theater 5:00-5:25

Ist Period 5:30-5:45

2nd Period 5:50-6:05

3rd Period 6:10-6:25

4th Period 6:30-6:45

5th Period 6:50-7:05

Everyone had such a wonderful time last year! All CoSA Community Carnival is back with some important information that will help families navigate the 2026-2027 COSA school year.

• Tuesday, September 15th 5:15 - 6:45pm
  All New and Returning Parents & COSA Students
  
  Hosted by COSA Foundation Board Members & CoSA Council student leadership
  

• 5:15 pm in Theatre: Welcome & Informational Session for Parents and Students to share important COSA details for this school year.

• 5:45 pm - 6:45 pm in CHS Quad: Celebration of our COSA Community. Food! Games! Activities! Conservatory Information Booths! Plus a chance to get to know families and establish relationships! Bring your friends!

Congrats Luca! Luca Hansen is starring in this Witty, Dazzling Drama at Cygnet Theatre.

ARCADIA

July 15 – August 16
Dottie Studio Theater

By Tom Stoppard

Directed by Sean Murray

https://cygnettheatre.org/show/season26-27/arcadia/

Time folds in on itself in this dazzling, thought-provoking drama, where past and present collide inside a single country estate. In 1809, a young prodigy dazzles her tutor with bold ideas about desire and the hidden patterns of the universe. Two centuries later, modern scholars descend on the same house, each chasing a different historical puzzle. As their investigations intertwine, discoveries in one era echo into the other. The result is a funny and deeply human exploration of truth and time.

Congratulations Musical Theatre & Drama Grad, Addison Nesbitt!

From being the lead in 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑦 𝐹𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑦 to winning the Broadway San Diego Awards Best Actress Award to being a The Jimmy Awards Nominee, CoSA alumna, Addison Nesbitt, capped off her incredible journey winning the Showstopper Award at The Jimmys!

CoSA Instrumental Music Alum Class of 2009, John Mailander singing backup and playing violin with Bruce Hornsby on Jimmy Kimmel!

CoSA DigArts Alum, Austin Varco, is making his NASCAR’s Craftsman Truck Series debut right here in Coronado!

Congratulations to CoSA Graphic Design Intern and Graduate, Cadence Wright for designing a set of banners for all six CoSA Conservatories that are newly unveiled on the median of Orange Avenue!

Please join in their efforts to enrich our students' lives through the arts! https://www.cosafoundation.org/

Donate https://www.cosafoundation.org/parents/

CoSA Foundation

https://www.cosafoundation.org/

P.O. Box 181587
Coronado, CA 92178
501(c)(3) Tax ID#: 33-0752143

Coronado School of the Arts

650 D Avenue

Coronado, CA 92118

(619) 522-4050

Principal & Director of CoSA:

Karin Mellina

COSA Support Staff:

COSA Office Administrative Assistant, Deidre Smith

COSA Coordinator, Karrie Jackson

COSA Faculty:

Dance: Caryn Ipapo-Glass

Digital Arts: Animation/Graphic Design, Anna Woerman & Film, Michelle Evenson

Instrumental Music: Matt Heinecke

Musical Theatre & Drama: Barbara Wolf, Kim Strassburger, David McBean

Technical Theatre: Cynthia Bloodgood & Julie Lorenz

Visual Arts: Karrie Jackson

Plus our fabulous Consultants, Guest Artists, Live Models and Volunteers!

COSA Foundation Board of Directors:

President: Arlene Ventimiglia

Vice President: Linda Edison

Secretary: Kristina Quesada

Treasurer: Marnie Herndon

2026-2027 COSA Foundation Board Members:

COSA Director, Advisor to the Board: Karin Mellina

COSA Representative Liaison: Karrie Jackson

Student Representative: CoSA Council Vice President, Wendy Alcaraz

Volunteer Parent Liaison: Rebecca Villanueva

Social Media: Holly Peterson

Dawn Bright

Amber Truax

Reina Valdez

Rebecca Villanueva

Nadia. Mahalingam

Andrea Heinecke

Jennifer Vasquez

Paul Vasquez

Shannon Guths

COSA Foundation Staff:

Director of Development, Jenni Nesbitt

COSA Foundation Administrative Assistant, Erin Everett

COSA Council Student Leadership Team:

President, Emma Olson

Vice President, Wendy Alcaraz

Secretary, Danielle Elizabeth Mensah-Baah

Advisor, Karrie Jackson

Thank you to all our REPs from each of our 6 Conservatories!

And THANK YOU to all our working COSA Student Interns who collaborate on our Productions and Publicity! You are truly PROs!

COSA Graphic Design Interns: Carlos Goya Minvielle & & Jose Aguayo

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