Tustin High School’s Tiller Theatricals is dedicated to creating a safe, collaborative learning environment with high-quality education in performing arts. Our aim is to build a community of students that elicit creative self-expression, critical thinking, and artistry through our theatre course offerings and performances. Students will grow and gain confidence as performers, designers, and stage technicians while working together for a common goal: to create art for our school and our community.
Welcome to the wildest “study hall” ever—where the Vice Principal's test-prep pageant mutates into a student-led, laugh-til-you-snort blitz through the Brothers Grimm. Our motley crew (theater kid, class clown, goth, athlete, shy human-prop department, and more) hijacks the script and speed-runs Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel & Gretel, The Frog Prince, and Rapunzel—complete with audience cues, cartoonish mayhem, and birds who moonlight as stylists. The show gleefully pokes fun at the absurdity baked into these classics: eye-pecking “helpers,” princes who fall in love with shoe sizes, step-sisters trimming toes, a hedge that eats entire towns, sleep apnea chic, and a Doordash delivery that solves a centuries-old riddle. It’s a backstage rebellion dressed as a fairy-tale revue!
Why theater? Those of us who are on the stage every day can answer this questions easily! We love theater because its a big family! Being a part of the theater program at Tustin High School gives you an instant group of friends who aren't afraid to be both silly and vulnerable, it helps you gain tons of confidence and it helps you in all your other classes and your future because you become a great communicator.
Anyone who is interested in learning and making art is welcome to join Tiller Theatricals! Please speak to your counselor to sign up for an appropriate course!
We produce multiple shows per year. From showcases, to student written work, to plays and musicals, we have done it all!
We work on both the basics and more advanced acting skills.
We build sets, design costumes and makeupp, work with lights and sound, and other behind the scenes needs for all of our productions.
Tiller Tales: Stories from Tomorrow's authors brings our thespians into elementary classrooms to perform plays written by 2nd and 3rd graders.
We go to two performances a year: one college or community show and one large musical.
Acting teaches us how to listen and respond to one another.
2025/26 - The Tiller Zone, Tiller Tales, Grimm in 60
2024/25 - The Tiller Zone, Tiller Tales, ComedySportz, A Midsummer Night's Dream
2023/24 - The Tree, Puffs, April Improv Nights
2022/23 - Mean Girls: High School Version, The 10 Worst Breakups of All Time, Everyone Gets Eaten by Sharks, May Improv Night
2021/22 - A Christmas Carol, Parental Guidance
2020/21 - Everything Seems like Maybe, 10 Ways to Survive Life in Quarantine
2019/20 - 10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe