Welcome to the Performing Arts Department

Vivian Hasbrouk - Department Chair

Philosophy: Theater mastery can be applied to all other subjects and disciplines. Students learn to practice accepting the ideas of others, communicating intentions, carving out spatial awareness, creative critical thinking, facing obstacles, resolving a conflict - becoming an ensemble—this is how our drama classes work and play each week.   They grow a stronger intuitive process by learning how to express what is spoken and unspoken.  Discovering literary through-line and historical significance supports a student’s real need to feel safe, taking artistic risks, and enables them to connect active choices to the curriculum. 

Classes Offered: 

Middle School: Drama 5, Drama 6, Music 5-8, Theater 8, Middle School Chorus

Upper School: The Power of Rhetoric, Monologue Hot Seat, Acting, The Film Department, Elements of Technical Theater Design, Music History, AP Music Theory

Examples of Classwork: The Greek Skits 2020: Perseus, The Westing Game, Julius Caesar

Extra-curricular: Fall Upper School Production, Spring All-School Musical

Recent Past Productions: Les Miserables, The Music Man, A Midsummer Night's Dream Rocks, I Hate Hamlet, Into the Woods