Alice in
Wonderland
Guys
and Dolls
Inherit the Wind
TUDENTS
FORMER S
The Crucible
Marat / Sade
A Piece of My Heart
Hamlet
Baby with the Bathwater Of Mice and Men
Waiting for Godot
The Miracle Worker
Alice In Wonderland
Romeo and Juliet
Dylan
The Little Foxes
The Laramie Project
On the Verge
Dracula
Vanities
Our Town
Playing for Time
Fools
Antigone
The Elephant Man
After The Fall
The Children’s Hour
Twelfth Night
Medea
The Dairy of Anne Frank
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Marriage of Bette And Boo
The Importance of Being Earnest
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
MUSICALS
West Side Story
Li’l Abner
Anything Goes
Little Shop of Horrors
Schoolhouse Rock
Oklahoma!
The Music Man
The Music Man
Grease
Camelot
Guys and Dolls
A Christmas Carol
The Wiz
Bye, Bye Birdie
Hello, Dolly!
Former students have furthered their
theatre education at New York University,
Emerson, UCLA, University of North Carolina, Julliard, Duke, Webster, Marymount
Manhatten, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City University, University of Texas,
Texas State University, Sam Houston,
American Academy of Dramatic Art New
York, Brigham Young University and many
others.
Temple High School graduates are working professionally in New York, Chicago,
Boston and Los Angeles.
Temple High School
THEATRE DEPARTMENT
5A High School • Temple Texas
Li’l Abner
Birdie
T
he theatre program at Temple High School gave me the
foundation of knowledge I needed to get into a good school
and succeed in college. Every day I find myself using things I
learned in high school, and I’m ahead of most of my peers in
terms of knowledge and work ethic because of what I gained
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
Anything Goes
Natasha Tolleson
Temple High School Theatre Department
415 North 31st Street • Temple, TX 76504
Office 254-791-6331 • Home 254-773-5960
[email protected]
Thespian Troupe website — www.ThespiansR.us
JANUARY 2005
TIONS
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The Miracle Worker
Baby
with the
Bathwater
The
Crucible
Camelot
The
Wiz
Piece of My Heart
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THE FACILI
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Introduction to Theatre
Acting 1-3
Directing 1-3
Dramatic Design 1-4
The facility includes a 52'×40' proscenium stage with a
1600-seat house. On site is a stocked tool room, prop room,
sound room, light room, numerous costume rooms and space
for paint and canvas storage.
There is a separate off-site storage facility for stock.
Equipment includes an ETC 98-channel lighting system
(three electrics, three strips and a separate lighting truss
over the house), cyc boxes, cyclorama, skrim, a Mackie 32channel sound mixing console, 16 wireless mics, Le Flame
torch kits, hazers, fog machines and more.
Troupe #1966 International Thespian Society
Invited to perform for International Festival, June 2004
Texas Super Trouper Award 2003, 2004
Advanced to International Festival with
• Duet Acting 2003, 2004, 2005
• Set Design 2003, 2004, 2005
• Publicity 2004, 2005
• Costume Design 2005
• Duet Musical 2005
• Solo Musical 2005
Students received several
Thespian Scholarships
Children’s Theatre 1-3
Dramatic Literature World Survey
Dramatic Literature 20th Century
Theatre Production 1-4
LAY
ONE-ACT P
U.I.L. Annual Competition
District Advancement 1993-2004
Area Advancement 1999-2004
State Alternate 2004
2nd Place 5A State 2000
W
A
fter performing in my first show at Temple High, I got what is
commonly known as the “acting bug,” but what I never anticipated was the knowledge and appreciation I would have for all forms
of theatre when I graduated. By the time I went to Emerson College in
Boston, I was surprised to find how my high school training had given
me such a huge head start over many other theatre majors.
Natasha Tolleson and her program are the reasons I am a working actor today. It is the one gem that sets Temple High apart from
other schools, and it is the reason I have a passion and a life today!
— Anne Adams, Steppenwolf Theatre Company
A Christmas
Carol
hen I have an opportunity to work with the Temple High
Theatre Department, I consider it an honour, as I am
surrounded by a loving family of professionals with an incredible
sense of integrity in their craft and self-discipline in their work.
— Tal Lostracco
T
he Temple High Theatre Department instilled within me a
passion for theatre. I learned what it was to work on and perform something that is true, real and important. I am currently an
acting major at Emerson College, and I would not be here today if it
were not for this theatre department and everything it taught me.
— Paul Brindley, Emerson College
International Winner
Set Design 2004 —
H
aving retired from teaching theatre for many years, I couldn’t
have picked a better place to settle than Temple because it’s
here that Natasha Tolleson teaches and directs the best high school
theatre around. Her students are exposed to more theatre that those
in most colleges, and graduate on to some of the best colleges in
America. Anyone not afraid of hard work won’t find a better place
or a more knowledgeable and helpful colleague.
— Ray von Rosenberg
Anything Goes
The Trojan Women
West Side Story
Bette
& Boo
The Wiz
The
Insanity
of Mary
Girard