Newark Drama Club

More press coverage! Congrats Jaston!!

Celebrate the work of our Middle School Theatre Workshop! Our series of skits and scenes premieres on YouTube Thursday June 17 at 7:00PM! Watch any time after that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpkYsXjv4X0

Our last day of in person theatre workshop at Newark Middle School! The second one is our normal picbut I think normal is boring! Watch for an announcement about our skit/scene compilation show coming (to YouTube) soon!!

There are only SEVEN (7) slots left for the Newark discounted rate at Curtain Call this summer! Here are some of the Newark students who attended (or who were on staff!) in 2019. We have 26 Newark kids registered so far. It is going to be a fun summer! Lyonscurtaincall.com for info and registration. Save your confirmation email!! If you did NOT receive a confirmation email please contact Curtain Call directly (info on their website)

Great article by Brenda Pittman on the school website. https://www.newarkcsd.org//D/1/Newarks%20Rising%20Star.pdf

We have this awesome tradition of celebration parades for sports sectional wins...tonight we celebrated Jaston Brooks winning sectionals by being one of the two Rochester Broadway Theatre League representatives at The Jimmy Awards (the National High School Musical Theatre Awards) this year! So proud to be from a community that celebrates achievements!! Thank you to Mayor Taylor, the Newark Police Department, the Newark Fire Department, the Marbletown Fire Department, the Fairview Fire Department, Drama families and friends (and alum!) for driving in the parade, and everyone who came out to wave and cheer! This is what hometown pride looks like!

NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL THEATRE WORKSHOP!! This group of actors (plus a few online friends) have been meeting the past 6 weeks on Tuesdays (and in zoom on Wednesdays!) playing theatre games and putting together a showcase of skits and scenes. We filmed some today and are hoping to wrap up next week. Watch for an official YouTube premiere coming soon!

Our Jimmy Nominees, Jaston and Megan finally got to meet each other in person today! We are so excited for their journey over the next month!!

Celebration parade Wednesday June 2 7:00pm Starts at LNB plaza through town to NHS! Congrats to Jaston Brooks!Celebration parade Wednesday June 2 7:00pm Starts at LNB plaza through town to NHS! Congrats to Jaston Brooks!

Made the trip up to the Auditorium Theatre for press photos and interviews! Still very excited for Jaston! We’re having a celebration parade tomorrow night at 7:00pm through town! See the next post for details!!

Fun fact...Newark HS has participated in the RBTL Stars of Tomorrow program every year since its inception in 1999! We use the program as an opportunity to celebrate being a part of the arts community in Rochester. Any time theatre education receives recognition, it’s a win for all of us.

And the big moment! Actor Derek Klena originated the role in the musical Dogfight - which was the song Jaston sang for his round 3 performance.

EXCITING THINGS in store for NHS Drama Club! Students and families in grades 9-12: attend the meeting TONIGHT at 7pm in Zoom. I sent link via email and REMIND. If you canNOT attend and want to participate in our fall play or special Halloween event, please contact me and I will set up individual meeting!

There’s a special kind of people...(shout-out to our 2010 Curtains cast and crew! )

Incoming freshman through seniors...please make sure you are connected to Drama Club via this Remind group (it’s the same as previous years if you already are in the group) It’s important to stay connected, especially this year! I use REMIND to send announcements about club meetings and various activities (including auditions etc.) If you are part of a production there will be a separate REMIND for each production.

NHS Drama Club alum Andrew Sloane featured in this fascinating piece about production design in television! Andrew was the Art Director for the most recent season of HBO’s Insecure. He notes that comedy is almost counter to his personal aesthetic, however his past on the NHS stage would prove otherwise! Love the last line...relevant to all art creation You have to approach this as a process and not product.

A post from our elementary music teachers! Artists help artists! If you have donations email Ms. Larsson at [email protected] ------------ Hello Newark Families! Do you have gently used pool noodles that you would like to recycle?... Perkins & Lincoln music makers would love to use them! Libby Brozik and I making sand blocks for student kits and we need approximately 25 more (whole) noodles! You can check out the finished product below! If you have any laying around, you can PM me and I can come and take them off your hands starting Tuesday of next week! Thank you for your help!

Congratulations to the cast and crew of @bewitched_amateur_movie ! Happy premiere day! The movie will play at the Finger Lakes Drive-In in Auburn tonight! (And also will stream online if interested click over to the movie’s Instagram page and contact there for the link) I’m so excited to see the final product tonight! Extremely proud of the hard work of these NMS and NHS students and alum. What an amazing summer project!

Artists help artists!!! Update from Mrs. O'Connor! (I asked what the biggest need was and she said probably the high quality masking tape and glue sticks - the regular school supply style glue sticks. She noted that even if you have something hanging around in your junk drawer it would be great! Seriously...this is the perfect excuse to clean out your craft bins and junk drawers!!!) ------------------------------------------------ I would like to send a big THANK YOU out to ...Continue reading

Updated list! Help the arts in Newark!!

Quick update: At the end of this week there will be a green toter outside under the overhang at the front of the HS in the loop (by door near the Freshman wing/Library). There will be a sign on it HS Art Donations. Feel free to drop off any saved items from the list I previously posted at your convenience and I will be periodically emptying and sanitizing items. Thank you so very much for your help! Please read this wish list post from NHS Art Teacher Mrs. Amy Hab...ecker O'Connor! ****** If you have any of the following items, can you please begin saving/collecting them for me? Thank you in advance! Donations can be bagged and dropped off in the green toter found in the HS front loop or you can also private message me here on Facebook and I can come to you. Items Collecting: - 32oz. clear plastic deli containers with lids to hold modeling clay for pottery students (thinking I will need about 50 total) - gallon size ziploc brand bags to create individual tool packs for art students - rolls of masking tape (3M or Scotch brand hold best for sculptural projects) - newspaper, decorative wrapping paper, patterned scrapbooking or tissue paper, old books, junk mail, puzzles, covers to old greeting cards, any paper packing/bubble wrap and magazines for possible paper mache/collage at home - * please ensure you remove any personal mailing labels or info. from magazines or junk mail - washed plastic yogurt cups - film canisters/medicine bottles with lids *please ensure prescription labels are removed* - these work great to send home paint in and keep paint from drying out - cereal boxes or other product boxes similar to this thickness (broken down) - paper towel tubes - styrofoam egg cartons and washed styrofoam meat trays- great for paint and printmaking - beads/buttons or other crafting embellishments - fabric such as white Muslin or cotton, colored felt squares, patterned fabric swatches - embroidery floss and poly-fil stuffing - wood blocks/small wood pieces (wood spools, dowels, beads, etc.) - small toy figures (no bigger than palm size) such as plastic toy soldiers, characters/figures, matchbox cars, plastic animals/insects, game pieces like dominos, dice, etc. - for mixed media projects - wrapped bars of ivory soap for carving - sculpture projects Thank you all for your continued help and support! I hope everyone is continuing to stay safe and healthy.

Looking for a way to give back to Newark students this year? We’ll share info about projects that need donations when we learn about them! This is Kelley School! https://www.donorschoose.org//we-all-want-to-bui/5034714/