Drama
The award-winning Santa Fe High School Theater Department is recognized as one of the most diverse and active student theater programs in the Southwest. The program nurtures young artists in the various elements of production, performance, and analysis.
Producing an average of five full productions a year, the program demands a great deal of commitment and participation while understanding the need for academic success. Students involved in the department perform in main stage productions of both “straight” and “musical” shows, student-directed productions, state theater festivals, solo performance pieces, and world premieres.
In recent years, SFHS Theater has performed in the Edinburgh (Scotland) Fringe Fest - the largest theater festival in the world - taken excellence awards for acting and technical theater at the state one-act competition at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, staged a multi-discipline world premiere in conjunction with the Dance Department (Words Mean Nothing), presented classics of American theater (The Hot L Baltimore), and produced offbeat shows like The Rocky Horror Show and Sylvia.
Collaborations with local theaters (The International Shakespeare Center and The Lensic) have allowed students to be immersed in the professional world while still being centered in an educational environment.
Students are introduced to character construction, improvisational work, stage make-up, stage combat, script analysis, lights, construction, sound, stage managing, and much more.
Advanced Drama
Advanced Drama is open to students who have successfully completed Drama 1, or who have extensive prior theatrical experience. A rotating, three-year "conservatory style" class, students who take all three years of advanced will have a deep, and collegiate ready, understanding of external character creation, internal character work, and script analysis. Advanced Drama is by teacher approval and/or audition.
Drama Stagecraft
Drama Stagecraft is an intensive but essential element of SFHS Theater. Students oversee and produce all technical elements of productions. This includes, but is not limited to, lighting, construction, costume management, sound, and stage management. Students annually participate in The Lensic Theater Internship, providing valuable professional experience for further study in college. For highly dedicated students, opportunities to design lights, sound, and sets are also available.
Film Studies
A joint class with Santa Fe Community College (accommodating Dual Credit class requirement for graduation), Film Studies is an introductory Film History course that examines the history of film as an art form, it's aesthetic fundamentals, and milestone films. Starting with the birth of silent films and ending with modern masterpieces, this class is open to all students 10th grade or higher that have an interest in film and film history.
Past Production Slideshow (click image for full size)
Upcoming Productions
SFHS Musical Theater Presents:
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
by Rebecca Feldman, William Finn, & Rachel Sheinkin
Directed by Reed Meschefske
Musical Direction by Marilyn Barnes
Choreography by Donna Scheer
***Some material may not be suitable for children under the age of 12***
Box Office opens at 6:30 pm.
TIX:
$12.00 Adults
$10.00 Students
(under 18) & Seniors (over 65)
$7.00 Inducted Thespian Members
Tickets are no longer available online
for February 27th. Box Office opens
at 6:30 pm.
Tickets are no longer available online
for February 28th. Box Office opens
at 6:30 pm.
Tickets are no longer available online
for the February 29th matinee show.
Box Office opens at 6:30 pm.
Tickets are no longer available online
for the February 29th evening show.
Box Office opens at 6:30 pm.
February 27, 28, & 29 @ 7:33 pm
February 29 @ 2:30 pm
SFHS Theater
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves! At least the losers get a juice box.
SFHS Theater is going to The Edinburgh Fringe!
For the fourth time in the school's history, SFHS Theater will represent Santa Fe and the State of New Mexico at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the largest arts and theatrical celebration in the world. 7 dedicated and talented students will be presenting JUVIE by Jerome McDonough to a world wide audience.
If you would like to support these students on this chance of a lifetime, please generously donate below. Thank you for your consideration!
