The Notre Dame High School Theatre Department is an award-winning program dedicated to creating a challenging, supportive learning environment with a high-quality education and dynamic, experimental production experience in the performing arts.
Our robust season is anchored by four Mainstage productions: a Fall Play, Winter Play, Spring Musical, and Spring Play. Casting for these shows is not predicated on enrollment in the Theatre classes: all current Notre Dame students are welcome to audition. Produced alongside the Mainstage shows are various smaller, student-organized performance/tech opportunities, including musical theatre song showcases and a student-written/directed one-act play festival. Through the Theatre Club, students are given the responsibility and freedom to decide which smaller productions go on each year.
Our aim is to elicit creative self-expression, critical thinking, and artistry through our theatre course offerings and productions. Students of all grade levels have opportunities to grow in the study of acting, singing, dancing, musical theatre, and technical theatre in a rigorous, pre-professional program. Students will participate in an all-inclusive, family-like atmosphere where they collaborate with each other and build an artistic community.
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The Notre Dame Theatre Department competes annually for and has been honored by the following organizations:
California Educational Theatre Association (CETA)
The Jerry Herman Awards
The John Raitt Awards for Youth (JRays)