Jackson Day SchoolPREPARE · INSPIRE · BELONG
Theater at Jackson Day School gives students in Grades 6–12 opportunities to build confidence, develop performance skills, collaborate with others, and experience the excitement of bringing a production to life. Through improvisation, acting, scriptwriting, technical theater, and live productions, students learn by creating and by performing.
Explore the Stage.
Middle School Theater Arts introduces students to acting and performance through improvisation, skits, scriptwriting, technical theater, and stage productions.
Students practice performing regularly, helping them become more comfortable taking creative risks, communicating in front of others, and stepping outside their comfort zones.
Take It Further.
High School students build upon the foundation developed in Middle School through more advanced acting and production experiences with Mr. Keith.
From performance to production, students deepen their skills, take on leadership roles, and bring larger, more complex productions to the stage.
Think creatively, react in the moment, develop characters, and become more confident on stage.
Develop performance skills through regular opportunities to act in class, skits, and productions.
Write and develop original material to perform for classmates and audiences.
Explore the behind-the-scenes elements that help transform a performance into a production.
Students may also have opportunities to experience professional theater through trips to see Broadway productions in Charlotte or Raleigh, giving them chances to see professional actors, staging, sets, lighting, sound, and production elements firsthand.
Theater is energetic, creative, interactive, and designed to get students involved.
Take creative risks, speak in front of others, and become increasingly comfortable performing.
Students become stronger actors because they act, rehearse, create, and perform regularly.
Performance develops communication skills and confidence that extend well beyond the stage.
Middle School Theater Arts
Grades 6–8
Mr. O introduces Middle School students to improvisation, acting, skit writing, technical theater, and live performance through an energetic, hands-on theater experience.
High School Theater & Production
Grades 9–12
Mr. Keith continues the theater pathway in High School, giving students opportunities to build upon their Middle School foundation through increasingly advanced acting and production experiences.
More than a school. A place to belong.