Drama
Find Your Place in the Spotlight
Whether you're drawn to the stage, behind the scenes, or the writer's room, the JCHS Drama program offers opportunities to explore every aspect of theater. Students develop their talents through acting, playwriting, directing, improvisation, and technical theater, while gaining hands-on experience with lighting, sound, set, and costume design.
Drama at JCHS is about more than putting on a performance—it's about collaboration, creativity, confidence, and storytelling. Students work together to bring productions to life while building skills that extend far beyond the stage.
Award-Winning Program
The JCHS Drama program has earned regional, national, and international recognition for its outstanding student work. Our playwrights have been recognized in prestigious writing competitions, and JCHS was the first international school invited to participate in London's National Theatre New Views Young Playwrights Competition. The program has also been honored as one of the top high school theatre programs in the Northwest and has twice been selected to perform at the internationally renowned Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
JCHS is grateful for generous support from the following theater arts and humanities sponsor:
Production History
Hidden Truths: A Program of One Acts
Something Rotten!
She Kills Monsters
Once Upon a Mattress
Little Shop of Horrors
Anatomy of Grey
Spamalot
The Secret in the Wings
The Wellness Project
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
A Scandal in Bohemia
Beyond the Zoom Glass
Antigone The Burial at Thebes
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
A Flea in Her Ear
Nu Wurks IV
Mamma Mia!
Almost, Maine
The Quick Change Room
How to Success in Business Without Really Trying
JCHS at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017
Alice & The Black Hole Blues
Nu Wurks III
Cinderella
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
Belfast Kind
Urinetown
Productions from 2001-2015
2014-2015
The Drowsy Chaperone – Bob Martin, Don McKellar, Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison
Moon Over Buffalo – Ken Ludwig
A Second Skin – Multimedia Performance Featuring Works from Various Artists, Including JCHS Students
2013-2014
Pippin – Stephen Schwartz, Roger O. Hirson
Hearts Like Fists – Adam Szymkowicz
Hedda Gabler – Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Christopher Shinn
2012-2013
Into the Woods – Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine
The Liar – David Ives, Pierre Corneille
The Comedy of Errors – William Shakespeare
Dancing at Lughnasa – Brian Friel
2011-2012
Anything Goes – Cole Porter, P.G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse, Timothy Crouse, John Weidman
Fortinbras – Lee Blessing
Hamlet for Smart Dummies – Jake Rosenberg, JCHS Class of 2014
NU WURKS II – JCHS Playwriting Students
2010-2011
The Sound of Music – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka with an adaptation by the JCHS Company
2009-2010
Little Shop of Horrors – Alan Menken, Howard Ashman
The Government Inspector – Nikolai Gogol, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
The Children’s Hour – Lillian Hellman
2008-2009
Cabaret – Joe Masterson, John Kander, Fred Ebb
12 Angry Jurors – Reginald Rose
NU WURKS – JCHS Playwriting Students
2007-2008
Once Upon a Mattress – Marshall Barer, Mary Rodgers, Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller
The Rubenstein Kiss – James Phillips
Twentieth Century – MacArthur/Hecht, adapted by Ken Ludwig
2006-2007
Smash – Jeffrey Hatcher from G.B. Shaw
Working – Studs Terkel, Stephen Schwartz, Nina Faso, Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers, James Taylor, Susan Birkenhead
2005-2006
Tartuffe – Moliere, translated by Christopher Hampton
A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine – Dick Vosburgh, Frank Lazarus
2004-2005
What’s Wrong with This Picture? – David Margulies
Zombie Prom – Dana P. Rowe, John Dempsey
2003-2004
Crimes of the Heart – Beth Henley
Words, Words, Words – An Evening of One-Acts & Song on the Theme of Literature (including works by David Ives, Christopher Durang and many more)
2001-2003
Alice in Wonderland
Israel Horowitz One Acts