Mr. C is the Theatre Arts teacher and Director of Green Hope Theatre Company. He earned a BA in Theatre Education from Rowan University, taught at Sanderson High School from 2010-2021, and is the director of North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre's C.A.S.T Camp. He has been involved with Green Hope Theatre since the 2021-22 school year, and teaches all four theatre arts courses at Green Hope: Theatre Arts Beginning, Theatre Arts Intermediate, Theatre Arts Proficient Honors, and Theatre Arts Advanced Honors. Mr. C has earned the Excellence in Directing Award from the North Carolina Theatre Conference Festival on numerous occasions. 

​Melissa Poppe graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BFA in visual arts education. She has taught at Green Hope High School for 21 years and serves as the Fine Arts Department Chair. She is a National Board Certified teacher. She serves as the Past President of the North Carolina Art Education Association.

​She has worked on many productions at Green Hope as the PR Director and/or Technical Director, such as; Into the Woods, Grease, Romeo and Juliet, Legally Blonde, Dracula (set designer), Chicago, Tarzan, Side Show, Beauty and Beast, Wizard of Oz, Puffs, Freaky Friday, Leaving Iowa, The Addams Family, Almost Maine, and 9 to 5 The Musical. Through the eleven years working with the theatre classes and students/staff after school, she continues to grow and learn each year from every production. She looks forward to collaborating with this year's theatre group. 

Ms. Poppe teaches multiple levels of visual art classes. Her classes include Beginning, Intermediate, Proficient, Advanced, and AP 2D/3D. She hopes you see the wonderful art throughout the building and down the art hallway, not to mention on the stage. 

Maggie spent 5 years as a proud member of the Raleigh Ensemble Theatre Company. Recent costume design credits include “Skin of Our Teeth” and “James and the Giant Peach” for Raleigh Charter HS, “Once Upon a Mattress” and “Company” for NRACT, “Lady in the Dark” for Meredith College and “Suessical” for Saint David’s School. Local directing credits include over 40 productions with her students for the RCHS Drama program from 2001 - 2025, working with Jesse Gephardt on his hilarious “Santaland Diaries,” Nature Fun Theatre for the Museum of Natural Science, and “Most Valuable Player” for the RLT touring professional children’s theatre program, 16 productions for Raleigh Little Theatre, “Always, Patsy Cline for Raleigh Ensemble Theatre and “Somewhere in Between” for Theatre in the Park.