The Woodlands HS Theater Students Successful in the Performing Arts - This summer three theater students from The Woodlands High School successfully
completed their first round of acting auditions with colleges at the
International Thespian Festival.
Keith Hale, Craig Putman and Travis Meador each received numerous callbacks from colleges including University of Southern
California, Southern Methodist University, Webster University and over 20 more
from across the country, thus beginning the first step in their career.
Hale and Meador are students of theater coach Sandra Erlandson.
Allison McKinney, Blaire Lormand, Keith Hale, Travis Meador, Josiah Miller,
Camille Shotts and Gwenn Rosendale after their sold out performance at the
Pilrig Church.
The Woodlands HS Theater Students Return From Edinburgh Fringe Festival - Seven students and three teachers from The Woodlands High School attended the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.
This is the fourth time that the school has been selected by the American High
School Theatre Festival for this honor.
The students performed Musical of Musicals, the Musical by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart under the direction of theater chair Carlen Gilseth, with technical direction by Tim Jackubek, choreography by Connie Godwin, and musical direction by Lynn Bull.
After three months of rehearsals, the students flew to London and saw the West
End shows of
All’s Well That Ends Well and Billy Elliot, as well as taking a tour of the city and participating in a workshop at the
Globe Theatre, and then traveled by train to Edinburgh to attend and perform at
the Fringe.
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the largest arts festival in the world with as
many as 100,000 artists from around the globe. While in Edinburgh, the ensemble
also found time to visit the famous sights of Scotland including Sterling
Castle, Edinburgh Castle and the summer palace of Queen Elizabeth II. The
ensemble performed at the Pilrig Church of Scotland, and saw several other high
school and college-performed shows. They stayed in dorms at Queen Margaret
University, in the town of Musselburgh, and went on several sight seeing tours
around the city.
In the two weeks they were there, the students saw Big Ben, climbed the
remarkable Arthur
’s Seat (the highest point in Edinburgh), rode the London Eye, and witnessed the
changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace.
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