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FORMER STUDENTS Temple High School Former students have furthered their SOME PAST PRODUCTIONS theatre education at New York University, THEATRE DEPARTMENT Emerson, UCLA, University of North Caro- 5A High School • Temple Texas The Crucible Marat / Sade lina, Julliard, Duke, Webster, Marymount A Piece of My Heart Hamlet Manhatten, University of Oklahoma, Okla- Baby with the Bathwater Of Mice and Men homa City University, University of Texas, Li’l Abner Waiting for Godot The Miracle Worker Texas State University, Sam Houston, Alice In Wonderland Romeo and Juliet American Academy of Dramatic Art New Dylan The Little Foxes York, Brigham Young University and many The Laramie Project On the Verge others. Dracula Vanities Temple High School graduates are work- Our Town Playing for Time ing professionally in New York, Chicago, Fools Antigone Boston and Los Angeles. Birdie The Elephant Man After The Fall The Children’s Hour Twelfth Night Medea The Dairy of Anne Frank he theatre program at Temple High School gave me the The Caucasian Chalk Circle Tfoundation of knowledge I needed to get into a good school The Marriage of Bette And Boo and succeed in college. Every day I find myself using things I The Importance of Being Earnest learned in high school, and I’m ahead of most of my peers in A Midsummer Night’s Dream terms of knowledge and work ethic because of what I gained Anything Goes The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds under Mrs. Tolleson. I am confident that I will continue to succeed because of the advantage I was given by having her as my teacher. — Robert Bastron, UCLA MUSICALS The Music Man West Side Story Grease Natasha Tolleson Li’l Abner Camelot Temple High School Theatre Department Anything Goes Guys and Dolls 415 North 31st Street • Temple, TX 76504 Little Shop of Horrors A Christmas Carol Schoolhouse Rock The Wiz Office 254-791-6331 • Home 254-773-5960 Oklahoma! Bye, Bye Birdie [email protected]

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COURSES OFFERED THE FACILITY THESPIAN TROUPE Introduction to Theatre Children’s Theatre 1-3 The facility includes a 52'×40' proscenium stage with a Troupe #1966 International Thespian Society Acting 1-3 Dramatic Literature World Survey 1600-seat house. On site is a stocked tool room, prop room, Invited to perform for International Festival, June 2004 Directing 1-3 Dramatic Literature 20th Century sound room, light room, numerous costume rooms and space Texas Super Trouper Award 2003, 2004 Dramatic Design 1-4 Theatre Production 1-4 for paint and canvas storage. Advanced to International Festival with There is a separate off-site storage facility for stock. • Duet Acting 2003, 2004, 2005 Equipment includes an ETC 98-channel lighting system • Set Design 2003, 2004, 2005 Y (three electrics, three strips and a separate lighting truss • Publicity 2004, 2005 ONE-ACT PLA over the house), cyc boxes, cyclorama, skrim, a Mackie 32- • Costume Design 2005 channel sound mixing console, 16 wireless mics, Le Flame • Duet Musical 2005 U.I.L. Annual Competition torch kits, hazers, fog machines and more. District Advancement 1993-2004 • Solo Musical 2005 Area Advancement 1999-2004 Students received several State Alternate 2004 Thespian Scholarships hen I have an opportunity to work with the Temple High 2nd Place 5A State 2000 WTheatre Department, I consider it an honour, as I am International Winner surrounded by a loving family of professionals with an incredible Set Design 2004 — fter performing in my first show at Temple High, I got what is sense of integrity in their craft and self-discipline in their work. Acommonly known as the “acting bug,” but what I never antici- — Tal Lostracco pated was the knowledge and appreciation I would have for all forms aving retired from teaching theatre for many years, I couldn’t of theatre when I graduated. By the time I went to Emerson College in Hhave picked a better place to settle than Temple because it’s Boston, I was surprised to find how my high school training had given he Temple High Theatre Department instilled within me a here that Natasha Tolleson teaches and directs the best high school me such a huge head start over many other theatre majors. Tpassion for theatre. I learned what it was to work on and per- theatre around. Her students are exposed to more theatre that those Natasha Tolleson and her program are the reasons I am a work- form something that is true, real and important. I am currently an in most colleges, and graduate on to some of the best colleges in ing actor today. It is the one gem that sets Temple High apart from acting major at Emerson College, and I would not be here today if it America. Anyone not afraid of hard work won’t find a better place other schools, and it is the reason I have a passion and a life today! were not for this theatre department and everything it taught me. or a more knowledgeable and helpful colleague. — Anne Adams, Steppenwolf Theatre Company — Paul Brindley, Emerson College — Ray von Rosenberg

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