Theatre Arts

In our Theatre Arts program students may participate in plays and musicals at both the Upper School and the Middle School. Students can also attend drama festivals and participate in a variety of theatre classes at the Upper School level.

Through active participation, students will be able to:

• Use their bodies, voices, and imaginations to bring truth to life before an audience
• Analyze the worldview of a dramatic word
• Articulate the artistic argument being made through the work

Ultimately, students will create dramatic art that reveals and glorifies God to a world in need of His beauty and redemption.

Upper School

Upper School students perform in chapel services, assemblies, and other special events, as well as in our MainStage productions. In addition to those performance opportunities, students may also choose to engage in theatre arts behind the scenes as make-up artists, set builders, stage managers, student directors, tech crew members, or properties masters. Some of the past productions include:

• Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (Fall 2024)
• Hello, Dolly! (Spring 2024)
• Pride and Prejudice (Fall 2023)
• Disney's The Little Mermaid (Spring 2023)
• Radium Girls (Fall 2022)
• Godspell (Spring 2022)
• You Can't Take It With You (Fall 2021)

Upper School offers a Drama course for any interested students, as well as an auditioned dramatic ensemble, Honors Dramatis. Members of Dramatis typically put on a production each semester.  Some past Honors Dramatis productions include:

• Much Ado About Nothing (Spring 2024)
• A Night Under the Stars (Winter 2024) 
• The Tempest (Spring 2023)
• Tracks (Winter 2023)

All students also may participate in the co-curricular Drama Club, which produces the annual Fall Play, Spring Musical, and Student Directed One-Act Festival. Finally, students who exhibit exceptional dedication to the dramatic arts may be eligible for induction into the International Thespian Honor Society.

Middle School

Middle School Students may take a drama elective in 7th or 8th grade. Students also enjoy being involved in annual Middle School productions.

Some recent productions include:

• Aladdin, Jr. (Spring 2024)
• Beauty and the Beast, Jr. (Spring 2023)
• The Lion King Jr.  (Spring 2022)