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Varsity Letter Requirements
We strive for those who earn their Dexter Drama Varsity Letter to represent an individual who strives to possess a comprehensive experience of the theatre world. These requirements will help ensure students exiting the DHS Drama program are at the very least exposed to different aspects of theatre.
Requirement 1: Involvement in 3 productions in at least 2 different areas of theatre. Example: Acting and Pit Orchestra or any combo of Sound/light/costume/props/running crew or any designer position, etc.... Combinations are endless!
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OfficersPresenting your 2019-2020 Drama Club Officers!
Dexter Drama Club Advisor: Erin Palmer
Contact the officers via email:
OR to send an email through the website to any officer, Ms. Erin Palmer or our booster club
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2019-2020 Drama Club Officers!
Victoria Ward
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Jake Kapusansky
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Angela Garza
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Clara Gauthier
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Maggie Needham
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Kesley Walter
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Noelle Whipple
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Evan Colby
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Jackson Helmholtz
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Emma Brooks
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Noelle Whipple is your Technical Crew Liaison for the 2019-2020 school year. She will be a sophomore and can't think of any other way she would rather spend her sophomore year than with the Drama Club! She has had the pleasure of doing four shows with the club and can't wait for another fantastic year!
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Evan is pumped to heck to be one of the two off Q improv captains in the 2019-2020 school year. He hopes to leave the club better than he received it, apologizes in advance if that goal proves too lofty for him.
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Jackson Helmholtz is one of your improv captains this 2019-2020 school year! This is his second year of being an officer, last year he was the communications officer, and his fifth year in the club overall. Jackson will also be a junior this year and he is so excited to lead a new year of improv, and he is excited for the shows this year!
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Emma Brooks is your very first Pit Liaison. She is a junior this year and this will be her 5th year with the drama club. She has done many areas of theater, but her heart lies in the pit. It is where she feels most at home within the club and she hopes to bring it to life over the course of this year!
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Ms. Erin Palmer
Drama Club Advisor
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Erin Palmer is enjoying her twelfth year at Dexter High School as a World History teacher and Drama Club advisor. She is a proud alumna of Kalamazoo College where she earned a BA in History and minors in Psychology and Theatre Arts. Palmer has also completed her Masters of Public Administration at the University of Michigan-Flint. For several past summers she has taken her passion for teaching out of state and in one case overseas where she has taught English through performance in Poland. Palmer spent 3 summers in the forests of Oregon where she facilitated teen programs on high and low-rope challenge courses. As the advisor of the Dexter Drama Club and Improv Club she is the proud sponsor of 4 main productions a year and 5 Improv shows. Previous directing credits with the Dexter Drama include The Odd Couple, Anything Goes, Hello, Dolly!, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Back to the 80s, A Year With Frog and Toad, Guys and Dolls, Alice in Wonderland, The Music Man, Willy Wonka, Into the Woods, Disney's The Jungle Book, Crazy For You, Grease, Disney's Sleeping Beauty, Chicago, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, and now Disney’s Lion King Jr., On the Town, Peter Pan, and Little Shop of Horrors. Palmer would like to enthusiastically recognize her student designers and officers for all they do to make the Dexter Drama productions incredible as well as her parent booster club for all their efforts. A special “shout out” to Jodi Helmholtz, her Parent Booster president who is extraordinary. Dexter Drama Club would also not be possible without the talents of her “partners in crime”: choir and vocal directors Julie Bassett, pit orchestra director, Brian Rose, and my wonderfully talented Co-director, Elizabeth Champion.