North Iredell High School Theatre Department

Our Advanced Performance this Friday has been postponed until after Thanksgiving break. We will announce our rescheduled date ASAP.

We are on the road to NCTC! Excited to visit Gardner Webb University and see what other high schools have been working on!

We are on the road to NCTC! Excited to visit Gardner Webb University and see what other high schools have been working on!

Contact Mr. Mac and Ms. Highman if you are interested in helping us this spring! Onstage, offstage, student, parent, any and all help is welcome.

Skills and items we could use: carpentry and lumber, paint, sewing/knitting for costumes, costume donations, ushers, business donations/sponsorships, and so much more.

If you are interested in helping, but aren't sure how, please contact us!

Contact Mr. Mac and Ms. Highman if you are interested in helping us this spring! Onstage, offstage, student, parent, any and all help is welcome.

Skills and items we could use: carpentry and lumber, paint, sewing/knitting for costumes, costume donations, ushers, business donations/sponsorships, and so much more.

If you are interested in helping, but aren't sure how, please contact us!

The Big Prank, NIHS Theatre

We weren't able to hold our usual in-person performances this year, so we decided to create some radio theatre! After learning about the history of radio and podcasting, our beginning and intermediate theatre classes created productions using radio scripts from the 1950s and original scripts written in class. After recording their voices, they went and edited the clips to include music and sound effects.

Our first play in our series is "The Big Prank", written by Sam Jones. In the play, Ethan is a high school student with a talent for pranks. But when one of his pranks goes too far, he has to decide to either turn over a new leaf, or leave for boarding school....how will Ethan get out of this one? Listen and find out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pXpAyA2NSc

The Big Prank, NIHS Theatre Due to COVID-19, we weren't able to host our usual end-of-year performance. Instead, we decided to write and record some original radio plays! This play, wri...

Oh yeah, it’s all coming together.

An update on our hallway decorations! This years theme: Joy to the World. We are celebrating all the different ways winter is celebrated around the globe!

The Advanced Theater Arts class has worked these past few months to write and record an original piece of theatre for the North Carolina Theatre Conference's Virtual Showcase! The show, titled Group, takes place during a group therapy session for students. During the session, the students share some of the struggles they are dealing with, and we get to see some scenes from their lives. The performance is available to watch here, and is also available on the Roku and Amazon Fire TV app!

https://vimeo.com/showcase/7739113

We haven’t started playing Christmas music yet, but we have begun decorating!

Teaching art or teaching to think like an artist? | Cindy Foley | TEDxColumbus

Should we teach art, or how to think like an artist?

Mr. Mac hopes to do both.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcFRfJb2ONk

youtube.com What is the purpose and value of Art education in the 21st Century? Foley makes the case the Art’s critical value is to develop learners that think like Arti...

What is Art?

One of the first topics we cover in class is defining art and theatre, and how art is used to communicate ideas and emotions.

What in your life stirs emotion in you?

https://youtu.be/QZQyV9BB50E

youtube.com In this video, you’ll learn more about what makes and defines art. Visit https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/creativity/what-is-art/1/ to learn even more. We hope y...

It is imperative that all students have access to an equitable delivery of arts education that includes dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts that supports their educational, social, and emotional well-being, taught by certified professional arts educators in partnership with community arts providers.

We made it through day one!

What Is Theater? Crash Course Theater #1

For a Fun Friday, take look at this awesome video from CrashCourse, talking about the age old question, “What is Theatre?”

https://youtu.be/sNWrOuwzax8

youtube.com Welcome to Crash Course Theater with Mike Rugnetta! In this, our inaugural week, we're going to ask the two classic questions about theater. 1.What is theate...

Repping fine arts at the drive through open house! Dr Smith was camera-shy.

Here's a sneak peek of what Mac has been working on this week! Shout out to the folks at Central Office who helped create our Canvas Templates! Working hard to make sure every child gets quality instruction this semester.

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Well wishes to all our students this week as we prepare for classes! We love and miss you all.

Considering the daily updating situation, musical is postponed until further notice.

Talent Show February 25, 7pm! Hope to see you there!

Musical knocked it out of the park with selling donuts! All told, we have sold 333 dozen donuts, and raised almost $1,400! Super proud of this group of young adults and their hard work in and out of class.

Mr Mac was lucky enough to see Come From Away! A powerful and entertaining story about the most important American event in the 21st century.

We are selling Krispy Kreme Donuts to raise money for our spring production of "Once Upon a Mattress"! See a theatre kid for more info. We are 22% towards our goal of selling 100 dozen! Shout out to Hannah Langley for the awesome designs!

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The musical (Once Upon a Mattress) may include puppets...coming this April!

We are super excited to participate in the Blumenthal Performing Arts High School Musical Theater Awards (Blumey’s) this year! For those of you who don’t know, it’s a high school musical competition for the greater Charlotte region. We will be performing “Once Upon a Mattress” - an adaptation of the Princess and the Pea!

It may not seem like it, but our December 3rd show is right around the corner! Showtime is 7pm, and ALL our classes will perform. Intermediate will perform the one act “The Day the Internet Died”, Advanced will perform audition pieces from Shakespeare, and Beginning will perform scenes they have written discussing bullying in high school. It’s gonna be a great show!

Second day at NCTC! Watching some great shows - cool to see what other schools in NC are doing with theatre.

Had a great time at Mooresville High School and NCTC’s high school play festival! Our advanced theatre class showed out and laid it all on the stage in a GREAT performance. Super proud of this group of kids and their love, support, and team work.

Break legs to ALL the schools at the first weekend of High School Play Festival regionals!

📷 Lake Norman HS walking the stage at Catawba College (from Emily Klingman)

We are excited to announce our casting for our spring production of "Once Upon a Mattress"! We still have openings for our ensemble of Knights and Ladies! If you know anyone who can sing or dance, tell them to get in touch with Mr. Mac so we can get them involved! It's gonna be a fun show...

Winnifred the Woebegone - Lyric Contarino
Prince Dauntless - Joseph Kennedy
Lady Larken - Olivia Lamb
Sir Harry - Ryan Butler
Queen Aggravain - Clarissa Walker
King Sextimus - Zack Mahon
Minstrel - Canaan LeVan
Jester - Ben York
Wizard - Hannah Williams
Lady Rowena - Dresden Crider
Lady Merrill - Keeli Morrison
Lady Lucille - Emma Miethe
Lady Helena - Elizabeth Boggs
Lady Sarah - Sidney Leonard
Kitchen W***h - Morgan Maynard
Princess #12 - Hailey Kasper
Nightengale of Smarkand - Ashleigh Rash

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Improv Club is a great place to meet people, tell stories, and find your voice!