DRAMA

DRAMA

Performing arts provide children with opportunities to build cognitive skills. People involved in performing arts are able to engage the mind, body, and emotions in ways that permit them to stream through real-life circumstances with sympathy, understanding, passionate insights, and certainty. Children involved in performing arts at an early stage are equipped with the necessary skills to navigate through life.

Middle School Drama 

In an Introduction to Drama, students will explore the world around them through performance skills. Students will be challenged, asked to move outside of their current comfort zones, and tap into their imaginations.

Students will have the opportunity to choose a role, whether on the stage, or behind the scenes, that is just right for them, and will work collaboratively with their peers to complete creative projects.

Student Learning Goals

  • Learn essential core theater principles in stage movement, diction, voice, and pantomime. 

  • Study the history and vocabulary of theater. 

  • Hone procedures to overcome stage-fright and create self-confidence. 

  • Concentrate on improvisational techniques and acting skills for in-class performance.

  • Develop oral interpretation skills. 

  • Study the works of selected major playwrights.

High School Drama 

Theatre plays an important role in education, as an all-encompassing discipline that allows the student to explore, understand, and strengthen self-knowledge in many ways. While deepening their understanding of drama, students will strengthen their skills and sharpen problem-solving abilities. Additionally, students will harness key disciplines, therefore growing individuals with a strong sense of pride and accomplishment. 

Student Learning Goals

  • Develop skills to portray compelling characters and complex scenes using drama techniques  

  • Center on practical acting, commanding audience attention, and building an on-stage presence. 

  • Understand and follow stage directions, and use proper techniques for body and voice control.  

  • Learn and discuss the basic elements of drama to better understand and analyze characters and scripted material.   

  • Study the history of theatre and notable playwrights to establish a historical perspective and relevance.  

  • Develop knowledge of set design and development.

Awards & Recognition

One-Act Play 2021 “Leaving Iowa”

District Competition - 1st Place

TAPPS Division II State Competition - 2nd Place

Honorable Mention All-Star Cast:

  • Curtis Higginbotham

  • Anna Fisher

  • Sam Olivares

All-Star Crew:

  • Ainsley Filip and Lauren Culwell

One-Act Play 2020 “Little Women”

District Competition - 1st Place

Individual Awards:   

  • Best Actor: Jaeden Johnson 

  • Best Actress: Abby Turney 

All-Star Crew:

  • Samantha Strange

Honorable Mention All-Star Cast:

  • Jackson Wynn

  • Anna Fisher

  • Austin Cappleman

TAPPS State Competition

Individual Awards

  • All-Star Cast

    • Abby Turney 

    • Chloe Geil

Honorable Mention Cast

  • Jaeden Johnson

All-Star Crew

  • Samantha Strange