# Cawthra Park Secondary School

Cawthra Park Secondary School, also known as CPSS, is a public high school built in 1972 located in Southeast Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is one of two regional arts schools in the Peel District School Board. Cawthra Park provides instruction to students from grades 9 to 12. Cawthra Park offers a Regional Arts Program, which Peel students may audition to attend. The principal is Steven Keenleyside, and the vice principals are Barbara Gordon and Sian Evans as of March 2024.

## Music

In May and June 2013, the Cawthra Park Chamber Choir performed with The Rolling Stones in the Air Canada Centre.

## Productions

Cawthtra Park puts on a fall musical and a spring play annually.
| | Fall Musical | Spring Play |
| 2024-2025 | Mean Girls | |
| 2023-2024 | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | |
| 2022-2023 | Something Rotten! | Concord Floral |
| 2021-2022 | N/A (COVID-19 Pandemic) | Something Rotten! (Spring Musical Showcase) |
| 2020-2021 | N/A (COVID-19 Pandemic) | Matilda! (Online Spring Musical) |
| 2019-2020 | Chicago | N/A (COVID-19 Pandemic) |
| 2018-2019 | Legally Blonde | Our Town / Girls Like That |
| 2017-2018 | Billy Elliot | Hamlet |
| 2016-2017 | Guys and Dolls | Sense & Sensibility |
| 2015–2016 | Hairspray | Julius Caesar |
| 2014–2015 | Ragtime | Summer and Smoke |
| 2013–2014 | The Drowsy Chaperone | Macbeth |
| 2012–2013 | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | Agamemnon |
| 2011–2012 | Sweet Charity | Leaving Home |
| 2010–2011 | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Romeo and Juliet |
| 2009–2010 | Footloose | Mad Forest |
| 2008–2009 | Jesus Christ Superstar | The Miracle Worker |
| 2007–2008 | Cabaret | Les Belles-sœurs |
| 2006–2007 | Merrily We Roll Along | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 2005–2006 | West Side Story | The Laramie Project |
| 2004–2005 | Into the Woods | Doctor Faustus |
| 2003–2004 | The Sound of Music | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 2002–2003 | Les Misérables | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| 2001–2002 | Carnival! | Auntie Mame |
| 2000–2001 | Godspell | Dark of the Moon |
| 1999–2000 | The Apple Tree | Servant Of Two Masters |
| 1998–1999 | N/A (Ontario Teachers Strike of '98–'99) | N/A (Ontario Teachers Strike of '98–'99) |
| 1997–1998 | Once Upon A Mattress | The Crucible |
| 1996–1997 | Guys and Dolls | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 1995–1996 | Fiddler on the Roof | Look Homeward, Angel |
| 1994–1995 | Oliver! | Charley's Aunt |
| 1993–1994 | Pippin | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| 1992–1993 | The Pajama Game | 1949 |
| 1991–1992 | Into The Woods | Twelfth Night |
| 1990–1991 | Bye Bye Birdie | Tartuffe |
| 1989–1990 | Cabaret | You Can't Take It with You |
| 1988–1989 | Damn Yankees | The Crucible |
| 1987–1988 | Sweet Charity (performed in spring) | Nurse Jane goes to Hawaii |
| 1986–1987 | Guys and Dolls (performed in spring) | Brighton Beach Memoirs |
| 1985–1986 | Oklahoma! | Our Town |
| 1984–1985 | Annie | The Pajama Game° |
| 1983–1984 | Grease | Fiddler on the Roof° |
| 1982–1983 | Oliver! | Li'l Abner° |
| 1981–1982 | Take Me Along°∆ | Waiting For The Parade∆ |
| 1980–1981 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Carousal° |
| 1979–1980 | Macabaret | Oliver!° |
| 1978–1979 | I Remember Mama | Sweethearts° |
| 1977–1978 | Guys and Dolls | A Gift of Song° |
| 1976–1977 | Grease | Blossom Time° |

## Notable alumni

* Erica Peck, lead role in the musical We Will Rock You in Toronto and a Broadway performer
* Daria Werbowy, supermodel
* André Dae Kim, actor, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Vampire Academy (TV series)
* Sabrina Saudin, actor, The Boys, Locke and Key, True Justice: Family Ties
* Wali Shah, singer-songwriter, educational speaker, United Way ambassador and honouree of Canada's Top 20 Under 20
* Sebastien Grainger, singer-songwriter, Death from Above 1979
* Blake McGrath, singer, dancer, star of Dancelife, finalist on So You Think You Can Dance (season 1)
* Deanna Casaluce, actor, Degrassi: The Next Generation
* Adamo Ruggiero, actor, Degrassi: The Next Generation
* Amanda Stepto, actor, Degrassi (1987–1991, 2001–2009)
* David Bryant, guitarist for Godspeed You! Black Emperor
* The FemBots, musicians
* Drew McCreadie, winner of Best Male Improvisor in Canada at the Canadian Comedy Awards.
* J.D Fortune, former replacement INXS lead singer
* Lorne Ryder, singer-songwriter – CCMA and Canadian Smooth Jazz Award Nominee
* Dan Griffin, vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist for the Arkells
* Dave Seglins, CBC News
* Marnie Woodrow, author
* Sabrina Grdevich, actor
* Pooja Handa, CP24 anchor
* Boman Martinez-Reid, comedian