Why should I join Drama Club?
1.A Drama club recognizes, rewards, and encourages continuing student achievement. Simply having a Drama club demonstrates our school’s commitment to and appreciation of theatre arts, providing incentive to choose theatre arts among other extracurricular activities. That helps recruit talented, dedicated students. It allows students to spend time, outside the classroom, developing their interests and skills in theater arts.
2.A Drama club celebrates the work of all theatre student artists and technicians. This includes students who perform as well as students who prefer technical or staff positions. Educational theatre programs often highlight the performance aspect of production, but a drama club will celebrate and encourage achievement of all members of a production as integral to the success of any theatrical endeavor.
3.Student leadership opportunities. A Drama club often provides the student leadership component for its school’s performing arts department. Student members can be elected to offices within the club, if the club decides to create a constitution, bylaws and executive board. Typical offices are president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, and clerk/historian. These positions provide elected officers with the chance to demonstrate additional responsibility and practice leadership skills in a small group setting. Additional student leadership opportunities exist as students gain expertise in various areas of production and may even lead to committee chairmanships on high school production technical staff. Of course, student leadership is a valuable addition to any resume.
4.Exceptional promotional opportunities. Theatre arts programs often suffer in competition with athletics and other student programs when it comes to scarce funding and resources. Sports programs tend to receive extensive press coverage, which raises the school’s profile in its community. As is often the case, funding and resources follow attention. As an organized club, students can participate in various activities and community events to maintain a more constant presence in the minds of fellow students, staff, and the community at large. They may even chose to participate in school sanctioned fund raisers for field trips or scholarships. Participation and success in these events combined with ongoing public relations efforts can be effective in raising the club’s public profile and the school’s along with it. Many clubs find that these efforts lead to more prestige, additional resources, and even higher revenues in the form of increased ticket sales and patronage.
5. Its FUN! Students interested in all aspects of theatre, be it on stage or back stage can join with like-minded students to learn how to use elaborate equipment, experiment with lights, sound, paint, make-up, costumes, and other resources used in creating a theatrical production. Members will become familiar with the terminology or “jargon” used in theater. Activities will be as varied as the interests of those students who wish to learn. Students will advance not only their own knowledge and skills but those of the theatre community at TRHS as well.
