DTASC
DTASC Fall Festivals 2023:
Varsity Division, October 21, 2023 (Location TBD)
JV & Middle School Divisions, November 4, 2023 (Location TBD)
Tech Design Categories: Gothic/Horror Plays
Set Design
Lighting Design (JV & Varsity Only)
Marketing & Publicity
Character Costumes
Small Group (2-4 performers, 5 minutes max)
Look Ma, No Chairs (Straight Cut)
Shaw Gone Wild (Plays by George Bernard Shaw or Oscar Wilde only)
Small Screen - Adapt a single episode of a television show.Large Group (3-6 performers 8 minutes max)
10 Greatest American Plays (All scenes must be from plays on this linked list)
Open Comedy
Musical (3-10 performers, 8 minutes max)
Anything Goes (Any Musical from Broadway, Film, TV, Original [note: you don’t have to perform Anything Goes])
UPCOMING DTASC MEETINGS
Directors' Meeting
TBD @ 12:20
If you're interested in directing a scene for DTASC, be sure to attend this meeting!
Open to Juniors and Seniors
DTASC Group Sign-ups
TBD
Open to Chaminade Players and students enrolled in Drama class
Sign Up!
DTASC - Drama Teachers Association of Southern California
Chaminade Players who performed and room chaired at the 2019 Fall Festival.
Overview
In 1920, a small group of teachers from area high schools and colleges in Southern California decided to present a Shakespeare Festival. In the years that followed, that small but determined group of educators became a larger and even more determined group. This was the humble beginnings of what is now known as the Drama Teachers Association of Southern California (DTASC); an organization of over one hundred middle school and high school theatre teachers from as far south as San Diego to as far north as San Luis Obispo.
If you’re unfamiliar with DTASC, then you’re unfamiliar with one of the most prestigious educational theatre organizations in the country. Their mission statement says it best: “It is our mission to create a network where theatre educators and students can effectively communicate ideas, share resources, workshop, and showcase their skills. We believe in creating an environment that fosters the best in educational theatre. Through performance opportunities, diversity and professional adjudication, we support and reward hard work and commitment to the discipline of theatre and education.”
The organization, run solely by volunteers, seems to be holding true to that lofty ideal. You be the judge, here is a brief glimpse at some of DTASC’s annual endeavors: The organization hosts 4 festivals a year, giving some two thousand students from grades 6 through 12 the opportunity to perform before judges hailing from top universities to the professional theatre. Hosts workshops for both students and teachers. Makes available profit and non-profit opportunities for both students and teachers. Delivers to its members Arts in Education Updates. Frequently and exuberantly recognizes years of service from dedicated educators as well as dedicated community supporters. And finally, offers scholarships to worthy students from within the organization as well as scholarships and grants from outside supporters.
2020/2021 Festivals (Virtual)
Fall Junior Varsity Festival: November 15, 2020 Results:
Open Musical - 1st Place
Fall Varsity Festival: November 15, 2020 Results:
Audition Monologue
Student Original - Honorable Mention
Public Domain
Large Open Comedy
Large Open Drama- 2nd Place
Open Musical
2019/2020 Festivals
Shakespeare Combined Festival: April 25, 2020
Cancelled due to COVID 19
PV Peninsula High School (27118 Silver Spur Rd, Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274)
Tech Theater Categories – Featured Plays: Much Ado About Nothing and Antony & Cleopatra
III. Audition Monologue
IV. Shakespeare’s Final Act – Straight Cut
V. Characters in Disguise
VI. Characters Who Go Mad
VII. Large Drama – Antony & Cleopatra
VIII. Large Comedy – Much Ado About Nothing
IX. Theme Collage
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Fall Varsity Festival: October 26, 2019 Results:
Tech Theatre- Sets/ Lights - Honorable Mention
Audition Monologues- 3rd place & Honorable Mention
Open Comedy/ Straight Cut- Semi-finals
African American Playwrights- Semi-finals
A Women's Voice- Semi-finals
Large Open Comedy_ Honorable Mention
Open Musical- Semi- finals
Sweepstakes Results: Chaminade - Honorable Mention!!
2018/2019 Festivals
Chaminade 2018 Fall Festival Results
Audition Monologues- (1) Honorable Mention
Small Group Drama (I Hate Hamlet)
Small Group Comedy (The Pink Panther Strikes Again) Semi Finals
Student Original (The Talent Show)- Honorable Mention
Large Group Drama (The Miracle Worker) -3rd Place
Large Group Comedy (Vanya, Masha, Sonya & Spike) -Semi Finals
2017/2018 Festivals
Chaminade 2017 Fall Festival Results
Audition Monologues
Straight Cut (The God of Carnage) - Honorable Mention,
Horror/Thriller Plays (4.48 Psychosis)- 1st Place
Student Original- Semi-finalist
Large Group Drama (A View From The Bridge) - 1st Place
Large Group Comedy (The Comedy About A Bank Robbery) - Semi-finalist
Open Musical (Once On This Island) - Semi-finalist
Sweepstakes Results: Chaminade- Honorable Mention!!
2016/2017 Festivals
Chaminade 2017 Shakespeare Festival Results
Audition Monologue- Semifinalist
Modern Adaptation: B Division (The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged) - Semi-finalist
Shakespeare Uncut (Julius Caesar) - 3rd place
Modern Adaptation: C Division (Kiss Me Kate) - Semi-finalist
Shakespeare's Contemporaries (Fair Em) - 4th Place
Large Group Drama (Richard III) - 2nd Place
Large Group Comedy (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Theme Collage (Love Through Natural Imagery) - Honorable Mention
Chaminade 2016 Fall Festival Results
Audition Monologues- 4th place & semifinalist
Anything Goes For Children (Dora The Explorer) - 1st Place
The Golden Oldies: Musicals before the 1970s (Anything Goes) - Semi-Finalists
Plays of Diversity (The Elephant Man) - Honorable Mention
Large Group Open Comedy (Stage Kiss) - Honorable Mention
Large Group Open Drama (The Shrike) - 1st Place
Women Playwrights: Straight Cut (The Children’s Hour) - Semi-Finalists
2015/2016 Festivals
CHAMINADE 2016 SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL RESULTS
That Way Madness Lies (Titus Andronicus) - 3rd Place
Shakespeare's Musical (Hamlet)- 4th Place
Sibs From Another Crib (Othello)- Semi-finals
Large Group Dramatic (Macbeth)- 5th Place
Large Group Comedic (The Tempest)- 3rd Place
Shakespeare's Lesser Plays (Cymbeline)- 2nd Place
SWEEPSTAKES RESULTS: CHAMINADE- 2ND PLACE!!!!
2015 FALL FESTIVAL RESULTS
Non-American Playwrights (Yerma)- Semi-finals
Audition Monologue- Semi-finals
Audition Monologue- Honorable Mention
Large Group Comedy (Peter and the Starcatcher) -Semifinalist
Meet My Crazy Family (August: Osage County)
Open Musical (Heathers)- Semifinalist
Large Group Drama (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime) -2nd Place
2014/2015 Festivals
CHAMINADE 2015 SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL RESULTS
Audition Monologues - Semi-Finals
Women in Disguise (B Division, As You Like It) - Semi-Finals
Women in Disguise (C Division, The Two Gentlemen of Verona) - Honorable Mention
All in a Day's Work (The Witches from Macbeth) - 2nd Place
Villains (Lady Macbeth in Macbeth) - 1st Place
The Play's the Thing (Hamlet) - 4th Place
Large Group Drama (King Lear) - 4th Place
CHAMINADE 2014 FALL FESTIVAL RESULTS
Audition Monologues - Semi-Finals
Plays of Social Conscience (Straight Cut) (One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest) - Honorable Mention
More Than A Narrator (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) - Honorable Mention
Theme Collage (Musical) - Semi-Finals
Large Group Drama (War Horse) - 2nd Place
Large Group Comedy (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) - Semi-Finals
2013/2014 Festivals
CHAMINADE 2014 SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL RESULTS
Audition Monologues - Semi-Finals
Clowns and Fools (A Midsummer Night's Dream) - 2nd Place
Shakespeare's Children's Theatre (Julius Caesar and the Great Dodgeball Game) - Honorable Mention
Modern Shakespeare (B Division, Sweeney Todd) - Honorable Mention
Modern Shakespeare (C Division, Pocahontas) - 4th Place
Large Group Drama (Hamlet) - Honorable Mention