About Dexter High School Drama Club
Varsity Letter RequirementsWe strive for those who earn their Dexter Drama Varsity Letter to represent an individual who seeks 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.
Varsity Letter Requirements The requirements for this letter are an effort for those who earn the Dexter Drama Varsity Letter to represent comprehensive education and understanding of the theater world. These requirements will help ensure students exiting the DHS Drama Program are exposed to different aspects of theater. Varsity Letters can only be earned by Dexter Drama Club members at the High-School level. Requirement 1: Involvement in 3 productions in at least 2 different areas of theater. Example: Acting and Pit Orchestra or any combo of Sound/Lights/Costumes/Props/Running Crew/Improv or any designer position, etc… Combinations are endless! Performing in 3 improv shows equates to 1 mainstage production. Please note that writing and directing your own film for Film Festival now counts toward a second area of theater! Note: The 2 areas can be earned during the same production. For example, you could be on a tech crew and play in the winter musical pit orchestra. A second tech area for cast members can only be counted if the commitment to this position exceeds the already required set build hours. For example, a student could perform in a production as well as make props on props crew. Requirement 2: Passing one of the DHS performance or literature courses: IB Film Studies, IB Theater, Drama I, Musical Theater Workshop, or the Video News Production Consortium. Note: It is understood that this requirement will be difficult for certain students to fit into their schedules. Thus a 4th production can substitute for this course requirements or again 3 improv shows equates to 1 mainstage production and could substitute for this course requirement. Varsity Letters are presented at the end of each year at the Dexter Drama Club Gala. |
Presenting your 2022-2023 Drama Club Officers!Click on their names to contact them by email.
Theater TogetherWithin the Dexter Drama Club we make it our mission to be deeply inclusive. We strive to create an environment where students of diverse backgrounds are confident they can bring all of who they are to our program and be excited to do their best work. No matter if the student is interested in being onstage, backstage, or under the stage in our Pit Orchestra, we want all students to feel valued. Moreover, our students are diverse not only in their interests or level of theatrical experience, but in gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, class, religion and age, and also in life experiences, thoughts and ideas. We believe that diverse and inclusive teams have a positive impact on our productions and personal growth as a community. We, at the Dexter Drama Club, know we are not all the same and that is truly our greatest strength. In the United States current political and social climate, we are reminded that we need to continue to work every day to build an inclusive environment where all students and staff feel they can contribute fully to meet their own goals and the goals of the Dexter Drama Club. We look forward to many virtual and in-person yet socially distanced events this school year as we work to further our transformation and pursuits.
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2022-2023 Drama Club Officers!
Shelly Beach
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Owen Carlson
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Connor Gleespen
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Adam DeGregorio
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Kate Rossow
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Emily Prall
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Kennedy Lint
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Emily Fawcett
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Averi Rose
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Diego Reyes
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Mrs. Erin Palmer
Drama Club Advisor
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Erin Palmer is in her fifteenth year at Dexter High School as a World History teacher and Drama Club advisor! Palmer additionally teaches the US History course populated with many exchange students each year. She very much enjoyed teaching an online course for her Chinese students during the 2020-2021 school year even if it was at 9pm to accommodate for the time change! Palmer is a proud alumna of Kalamazoo College where she earned a BA in History and minors in Psychology and Theatre Arts. Palmer also holds a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Michigan-Flint. In past summers she has taken her passion for teaching and theatre overseas where she has taught English through performance in Poland. Palmer has spent 3 summers in the forests of Oregon where she facilitated teen programs on high and low-rope challenge courses. She worked as an inclusion specialist and specifically with the foster system of Portland, Oregon to provide more student opportunities outdoors and help ensure accessibility. 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 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, Hercules, Grease, Disney's Sleeping Beauty, Chicago, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Disney’s Lion King Jr., On the Town, Peter Pan, Little Shop of Horrors, and The Wizard of Oz. During the Covid-19 pandemic outdoor performances included Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood, and Disney’s Tarzan. 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 and Dexter Drama Club producer who is extraordinary. Dexter Drama Club would also not be possible without the talents of her “partners in crime”: choir and vocal director Julie Bassett, pit orchestra director Brian Rose, and my wonderfully talented program choreographer Amanda Webster.