Something Rotten Rehearsal Calendar
Save the Date: Friday, January 10th: 5:00 - 8:00pm Grab dinner at Bonsante in Burlingame with the rest of the BHS Drama family! Tell them you’re with BHS Drama and a portion of your bill will be donated back to us. What a great way to gather with our friends after the holidays! Hope to see you there!
Something Rotten Cast & Crew Lists
Thank you to everyone who auditioned! We had a great time seeing what you brought to share with us! We are looking forward to working with all of you on this production!
Some rehearsals will begin before break.
The scripts will arrive during the week of December 11. Be on the look out for an email - we’d like you to pick up your scripts before break. Your parents should be on the lookout for a registration email going out after Thanksgiving break.
-Mrs. Skelton, Ms. Shannon, Rick & Kennedy
PS Please remember to achieve a 2.0 or better on your semester grades!
PPS Happy Thanksgiving!
CAST:
Nick Bottom - Nico Bennett
Nigel Bottom - Sebastian Lamb
William Shakespeare - Lucas Keeley
Nostradamus - Rosemary Conant
Bea - Gina Saccuman
Portia - Aristea Taptelis
Minstrel - Nick Koomey
Brother Jeremiah - Israel Pubien
Lady Clapham - Holly Simson
Shylock - Veer Choudhary
Dance Captain - Anna Durfee
Featured Ensemble Roles
to be assigned in January: Puritans, Renaissance Writers, Shakespeare Groupies, Troupe, Bard Boys, townspeople…
Alexa Ardrey
Bella Brosnan
Savannah Carranza
Audrey Colvin
Anna Durfee
Mia Espinosa
Max Freitas
Kagan Goldstein
Phillipe Hanania
Lucinda Kendall
Emmett Kliger
Ella Knight
Nick Koomey
Elizabeth McNeel
Carly Peters
Siena Polasek
Alona Savella
Zoe Sener
Hudson Siefker
Holly Simson
Christian Texidor
Leah Umezaki
Aidan Vega
Something Rotten Crew List
(Actually, they are pretty incredible!)
Stage Manager: Happy Lee
Assistant Stage Managers: Hermela Flowers & Aisling Muldowney
Sound & Lighting Design: Rohan Shah
Follow Spots: Nathan Situ & Kevin Zhu
Light Board: Elliot Jue
Stage Crew: James Broome, Namay Buy, Yonah Flowers, Saumya Girdhar, Henry Smith, Gwyneth Thacker
Costume Crew: Elizabeth Chilson, Rowan Kelly, T.J. Serefidin, Lilah Shapiro, Chloe Tapio
Makeup Crew: Zaya Mytels, Ella Ares Hanson, Tara Buckley, Saniia Jackson, Yassline Rodriguez
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Drama Classes offered at BHS
Beginning Drama
Advanced Drama
This year-long course is designed for students with any level of theatre experience. We begin with improvisation which allows students to become more comfortable working together, improves communication, collaboration, confidence and presentation skills. These skills are not only useful for theatre, but valued in the real world as well. And it’s fun!
We explore improv, theatre history, acting, design and playwriting in a safe and encouraging environment.
This course meets both the SMUHSD and the Cal State/UC eligibility requirement for Visual and Performing Arts.
Prerequisite: Beginning Drama
In Advanced Drama, much of what we create is geared towards public performance.
In the fall semester we turn stories written by Washington Elementary School students into plays. This culminates in an enjoyable evening of performances we call Story to Stage.
In the spring, for our final project, we produce student directed one-act plays in our Night of One-Acts. All of these performances are open to the public.
This course meets both the SMUHSD and the Cal State/UC eligibility requirement for Visual and Performing Arts. This course can be repeated.
If taken for two years, this course satisfies the district’s CTE requirement.
BHS Drama Director, Cynthia Skelton
Cindy received her Bachelor’s degree in Theatre from San Diego State University in 1988 and in 2009 she earned her Master of Arts Degree in Theatre Arts from San Francisco State University.
Immediately after college, Cindy worked at Pepsico Summerfare in New York - being a member of the stage crew for three Mozart Operas in repertory: meaning they had to change the set over to a new play each night. It was a fun, exciting and exhausting time, and allowed her a chance to contemplate what it was about theater that she enjoyed and how could she best go about that?
She began her teaching career in 1993 at Jefferson High School in Daly City. After 2 years, she moved to Capuchino High School, spending the next 17 years happily teaching theater there. In her early days at Capuchino, she became a Sunday Player with BATS (Bay Area Theatre Sports) and uses a lot of the skills she learned there with her classes today. In 2012 she transferred to Burlingame high school and has been here ever since. Cindy enjoys teaching theatre because of what her students bring to each class and production: they are valuable contributors to each and every production and have great ideas and talents.
While at Burlingame High School, she wrote the curriculum to make Advanced Drama a CTE class, Implemented a Story to Stage program with Washington Elementary 5th grade classes, and created a tradition of student directed one-acts as the culminating project in her Advanced Drama classes each year.
Some past productions include: A Raisin in the Sun (Jefferson High School), Shirley Valentine (ArtRise & Edinburgh Festival), Steel Magnolias, Antigone, Oliver!, The Laramie Project, (Capuchino High School) Radium Girls, HTSIBWRT, Hello, Dolly!, Letters to Sala, Mamma Mia!, Puffs, Into the Woods, Disaster (Burlingame High School).
Cindy lives in San Mateo with her husband and two children. (If you participate in Burlingame AYSO, you may know her husband Nick. He used to coach their kid’s soccer teams and now he is a referee.) Both of her kids graduated from San Mateo High School: her son graduated from college and occasionally substitutes for Mrs. Skelton’s classes, and her daughter is graduating from SAIC in the spring.
BHS Drama Students Inspire and Educate
With the coaching, support and direction from Ms Skelton, BHS Drama students reach new heights of creativity, self-expression and confidence