About
MISSION STATEMENT
Carlmont Drama is a welcoming and supportive community built on the idea that all students can achieve success in theatre arts. We explore creative, challenging work that inspires our students and our audiences. We strive to develop well-rounded artists and people, invest in student leadership, and provide all members of our “drama family” with tools and opportunities for excellence and growth.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Carlmont High School's award-winning drama program provides students with high-quality instruction in all areas of theatre arts. Our curricular and extracurricular offerings include:
Four levels of curricular drama classes
A full season of productions, including two plays, a musical, and a one-act festival. The musical is a collaboration with the full performing arts department. The fall play and musical are faculty-directed, and the spring play and one-act festival are student-directed.
A chartered troupe with the International Thespian Society, an honor society for high school theatre students
A student-run improv team
Carlmont also participates in competitive theatre festivals. Most recently, we took 3rd place in the state in the International Thespian Society's Group Acting competition!
Questions? Contact the Drama Director, Elizabeth Berg (eberg@seq.org).
About the Drama Director
Ms. Elizabeth Berg joined the Carlmont faculty in 2022. A Bay Area native, she graduated from Saratoga High School and went on to earn a B.A. from Whitman College (magna cum laude) and an M.A. in Theatre Education from Emerson College. Ms. Berg has taught hundreds of students at all grade levels in both school and professional theatre settings. She previously led the drama programs at Mountain View High School and Ashland Middle School, and she has served as the Education Coordinator for California Theatre Center and a teaching artist for Portola Valley Theatre Conservatory, Dragon Productions Theatre Company, Starting Arts, StarStruck Theatre, and many others. Her 30+ directing credits include The Little Mermaid, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Legally Blonde, and Scenes From Metamorphoses (all at Carlmont), Macbeth, Radium Girls, Sense & Sensibility, and The Wizard of Oz. As a performer with California Theatre Center's professional acting company, she performed on tour in 32 cities across three states. She is a member of the Educational Theatre Association (EdTA) and the California Educational Theatre Association (CETA). Ms. Berg loves Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Classic Hollywood, and traveling. She believes that drama is for everyone and that the best learning environment is one in which all students feel supported, challenged, and successful.