Drama Club

Aresa worked with a classmate, Jackie Moyle, to start the Drama Club at their school. Aresa was the technical director and a writer. She was in charge of everything backstage. She learned to manage people and get a show off the ground.

The Grant

To create a fully fledged drama club Aresa and Jackie wrote a grant for ten thousand dollars. They brainstormed the materials they would need to get the club off the ground, as well as plan for future years. They submitted their proposal to their school and it was approved.

Real Budget Numbers

The Playwriting Club

Research for Playwriting Curriculum

A document with all the research/notes Aresa took to prepare.

In an effort to find a play to perform for the drama club's debut production, Aresa decided hold a playwriting contest. On top of this Aresa held a playwriting workshop to support and encourage students as they wrote. Unfortunately no one was interested so Aresa and Jackie wrote the play instead.

Playwriting Contest Website

Week 1

The presentation for the first meeting; Focused around brainstorming ideas.

Playwriting Group Curiclumn

The curriculum Aresa planned for the Playwriting Club.

The Play

The Outline

Event order- REVISED

Aresa and Jackie brainstormed together then slip up the work between them. Aresa wrote the crime scene, the town meeting scene, the beginning of the suspect scene and the jail scene. In total Aresa wrote thirty pages. The show was supposed to be wacky and silly. Aresa let her imagination have free reign, demoting her inner critic to the backseat.

The title was: The Detective is Dead

The Detective is Dead Full Script (Final)

The final version of the script.

Tech Crew

As mentioned above Aresa was in charge of everything related to the technical side of the production. That meant she oversaw the set, the costumes, the props, and much more. She also recruited and trained tech crew. She had a total of four members, three were interested in sets/props, and one was interested in costumes.

One of the sets Aresa designed.

Aresa assigned each crew member two scenes to design, including all the props. She told them the set pieces they had to work with and gave them a template of the stage. Aresa also designed two herself.

One of the sets Aresa designed.

Scene by scene Props List

The Props List.

Once the set designs were finished. Aresa worked on getting all the props they needed for each scene. She created a big document with all the props, then decided what needed to be made, bought or what they already had. Then Aresa worked with the principal to order the props using the drama club grant money.

props list

The Budget Sheet.

Aresa worked with her dad to repaint a door she rented from the Village Theatre.

A picture of one of the props tables back stage.

TECH

In a show, tech is usually the time the company gets to spend onstage working through the production with the set, costumes, and lights. Unfortunately we had limited time on our stage, since we were using another high schools black box. This meant we had to be very strategic about how they used the time the did have.

Aresa was in charge of Tech. She created a run sheet for all the crew members, a document which holds all the information about set and prop changes. She also "Choreographed" the transitions, which in this production were very complex. In order to use the time in the black box wisely Aresa taught these transitions and had them practice in the rehearsal room.

Run Sheet

The Show

There were two performances. Both performances had full houses, the first night they even had to turn people away.

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