Hello Turkey Hill Families,

The Turkey Hill School Drama Club is proud to present Annie Jr as our 2025-2026 production! Our fall drama club production is for students in grades 4, 5, and 6 only.  Grades 1,2,3 will do a spring showcase - more information to come for lower grades.  Kelsey Sullivan, one of our 4th grade teachers, is the director of this club.  This will be her sixth year teaching at Turkey Hill and she has been participating in arts programs from a very young age, most recently directing and choreographing for Amity Creative Theater and Center Stage Theater in Shelton.  We are excited to get started! 

The deadline to sign up for the drama club production is September 2nd, 2025.  If you have any questions regarding the production please contact Kelsey Sullivan at ksullivan@orange-ed.org

Important Annie Jr Information 

• Rehearsals will take place in the THS gym directly after school until 4:30. No morning rehearsals are expected at this time. See the rehearsal schedule below.  Your child will be attending one day a week if they are in the ensemble and two days a week if they have a named role. We have very limited time, so please try your best to make sure they attend all rehearsals. We are going to try to limit the number of missed rehearsals. If your child is sick and does not attend school, they will not be able to attend rehearsal. Our first week of rehearsal (September 9th and 11th) will be auditions and potential call back days. 

• Every participant will be required to pay a participation fee of $75, which includes a cast t-shirt, a cast party meal, and a field trip to a community theater nearby (more information to come on the field trip). Please note that if your child would like to participate in drama club, and financially your family can not support it, please contact Denise Arterbery at darterbery@orange-ed.org for assistance.

• Parents will be required to provide a costume for their student (more information to come in the fall). 

• Parents will also be asked to donate an item for the concession stand for the performances. 

• Parents are not required to attend practices after school.  However, we will need lots of help on the back end with items like designing the playbill, running concessions, taking cast pictures, creating a cast picture bulletin board for show week, planning the cast party, etc.  We will email out opportunities for parents to volunteer at a later date.  

To register for the 2025-2026 Drama Club Show please click here.  Stage crew applications will be accepted at a later date.

Best, 

Kelsey Sullivan 

Turkey Hill School Drama Club Director and 4th Grade Teacher

Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:00 - 4:30pm