Theatre Arts

Glendale High School's Theatre Department is an award winning Theatre program. Each year students produce two main stages, a night of one-acts, a faculty improv night, and a children's show, as well as attend and compete at various festivals. Each of our productions are STUDENT BUILT AND STUDENT RUN! Being a part of the GHS Theatre department is an opportunity to gain confidence in front of an audience, learn valuable team work and leaderships skills, as well as learn to design and build the various elements of our productions. Plus we attend a variety of workshops, behind the scenes tours and professional productions.

Recent awards include:

Advanced Theatre Class - Western Arizona Festival of Theatre - Superior ranking in monologues, duo acting scenes and lighting design.

Stagecraft: Thespian Conference - Tech Challenge, 2nd place in Overall time & 1st place in Cable Coiling

Glendale High School offers the following Theatre Classes.

Theatre 1-2: Introduction to Theatre Arts. The beginning level course will introduce students to the basics of Theatre Arts. Students will learn various performance and acting skills as well as explore theatrical designs with technical theatre. Click here to see the Theatre 1-2 Syllabus

Theatre 3-8: Advanced Cardinal Productions. The advanced class is a performance based class in which students gain valuable skills in designing, building and producing a number of productions. Click here to see the Theatre 3-8 Syllabus

CTE Stagecraft: The stagecraft class is a hands-on project based class in which students learn how to operate, program and run each of the technical areas. These areas include: set construction, painting, stage lighting, sound design, costume design and construction, prop making, house management, hair and makeup applications and publicity.

Glendale High School Theatre Director: Vanessa Bernal, vanessa.bernal@guhsdaz.org