Drama Curriculum
The Drama studio at LaGuardia is highly competitive. The students do not get a chance to perform until senior year, during the Spring Drama Festival. Not every drama student has a guaranteed role in each drama production, as they are audition based. The exceptions for drama students' ability to perform are the annual school musical, in which any second, third, or fourth year student may audition for a limited number of roles, and the Rising Stars talent show, where any student can prepare an act.
There are several guest teachers in the drama department, who are featured particularly in the junior and senior courses. Many actors such as Jake Gyllenhaal, Alan Rickman, and Darren Criss have given their knowledge on the audition process and career management.
Read more about this topic: Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
Famous quotes containing the words drama and/or curriculum:
“If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the world is provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer’s contribution seems not only absorbed but translated.... One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.”
—Eric Bentley (b. 1916)
“If we focus exclusively on teaching our children to read, write, spell, and count in their first years of life, we turn our homes into extensions of school and turn bringing up a child into an exercise in curriculum development. We should be parents first and teachers of academic skills second.”
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)