Theatre at the Beacon School

One of the core values of the Beacon School is cross-curricular, project-based learning. Theatre, being the most indecisive art, unites acting, dramaturgy, music, design, dance and engineering seamlessly in a historical catalogue of plays, musicals and operas. At Beacon this means fantastical opportunities for students to discover and create academically challenging performances that stretch their minds as much as their muscles. 

Beacon’s technology and arts focused beginnings offered foundational drama courses, a senior play and a growing demand for performance and design opportunities. When Jo Ann Cimato joined the faculty in 2004, the elaborate conversion of a multipurpose sound stage to a proper black box theatre began. In the years since, the Beacon Theatre Department has added three levels of performance classes, four annual main stage productions, a show choir, the Freshman Project, a student written play festival, three theatre history trips to Europe, and  continued to grow by employing industry professionals as Teaching Artists from the local Broadway and Lincoln Center communities. 

Beacon has thus developed a reputation for producing non-traditional high school repertoire, favoring rock musicals reflecting our music department's strengths, and social justice themes which connects directly to the community service pillar of our curriculum. 

Beacon Theatre students produce exceptional work, excel at annual Educational Theatre Association events, graduate to professional training at top-ranked conservatories and pursue careers in the performing arts. 

Many Beacon Theatre alumni are working artists. They are professors, musicians, theatre technicians, published authors and composers, designers, film makers, editors, directors, choreographers and working performers. But among their ranks there are also doctors, entrepreneurs, scholars, journalists, bankers, activists, community organizers and most importantly friends. 
Theatre Related Course Offerings
After School Drama - B'DAT
B'DAT Faculty
Current Production Opportunities
Thespian Troupe #6968
Beacon Theatre Students & College
B'DAT Production Archive
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