About Us
Bearden Theatre is a collaborative artistic environment that pushes students out of their comfort zones, off of their screens, and onto the stage. The program builds strong leaders and helps to instill important life skills that students can take into a variety of careers - not just the arts.
Teachers, actors, and technicians collaborate to create full length productions. Students grow in their creative problem solving, communication skills, team building, relationship building, financial budgeting, respect for deadlines, adaptability, self-discipline, independence, and self confidence as well as a variety of real world applications of art, engineering, history, math, science and reading skills.
Musical Theatre & Advanced Acting
Musical Theatre (Fall only) & Advanced Theatre Performance (Spring only) classes require an audition and students must re-audition to regain their spot the following year. Both of these advanced performing classes produce a full-length play or musical. Theatre Arts I or Vocal Music I is a prerequisite. Auditions are in Feb / March the year before.
Stage Tech
Stage Technology offers technical support for a production and is offered both semesters. This course requires an interview for admission and students serve on a crew which runs either the musical (Fall) or play (Spring). Students can serve on crews focused on set building, prop building and scenic painting, costume design, marketing and business crews. Stage Management teams are selected from crew members. Interviews are in Feb / March the year before.
Theatre Arts I & II
Theatre Arts I is open to all grades and is a survey/intro class with an emphasis in acting. Students write and produce an original skit night which is called “Annual Skits” in the Fall, and “Headliners” in the Spring. Theatre Arts I is the prerequisite for Musical Theatre, Advanced Theatre Production and Theatre Arts II.
Theatre II focuses on scene study and students take a larger role in the overall production of the skit night and work together to perform a one-act production at the end of the semester.
“... the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life.
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
— JOHN KEATING (ROBIN WILLIAMS), DEAD POETS SOCIETY