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Melissa Gibson

Drama teacher,
Oak Harbor High School

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Drama teacher,
Oak Harbor High School
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Posted By Melissa Gibson 02-14-2024 17:41
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I am very much angry for you as well. I will admit that how I would proceed might not be the best measure because if this was my principal, I would be tempted to go full on scorched earth, at least until until my music colleague calms me down. This is very much an equity issue. Are there full-time staff ...
Posted By Melissa Gibson 12-04-2021 08:59
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While I haven't exactly used that expression, it certainly applies in my case.  I wish it didn't, but I can't say it's a part of my mindset either. What do I think causes it?  I'm an English teacher with a couple of sections of drama though I prefer to say I'm a drama teacher with a couple of sections ...
Posted By Melissa Gibson 06-09-2021 12:12
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If you're looking for light and large cast, we had a lot of fun with Don Zolidis's Space Princess Wars which is a Star Wars and Princess Bride mashup.  Expandable cast and if you are remotely a fan of the Star Wars spoof Spaceballs, this one is right up your alley.  We had considered this or his Game ...
Posted By Melissa Gibson 01-10-2020 16:00
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Hive mind help please.  I'm working on registration for our state festival and I have two transgender students who plan to attend.  One of them may consider going to ITF this summer as well.  I got an answer from our state directors, but it was suggested that I post my questions to the forum here as ...
Posted By Melissa Gibson 01-31-2019 15:41
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ITF newbie here.  I have a couple of questions regarding ITF chaperone requirements and cannot find the answer anywhere on the page, nor can I find a direct contact email or number.  I have one female student who is a current junior and plans to audition while at ITF.  I want to encourage other students ...
Posted By Melissa Gibson 11-27-2018 11:08
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I assist our band with the color guard and my answer would be no.  Having said that, I did see a show at competition where they did have some performers who were not guard, not dancers per se, and not instrumentalist who primarily played a character. It is something that the band director and I have ...
Posted By Melissa Gibson 06-08-2018 12:01
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We received permission fairly quickly, but due to the costs and set challenges we went with my students' second choice (Jon Jory's adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice", also through Playscripts and $500 less to produce).  It seems like the billing is similar to a musical as opposed to the straight plays ...
Posted By Melissa Gibson 01-22-2018 14:09
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What are your typical rehearsal start and end times for high school troupes on mainstage productions?  We typically rehearse M-F 2:45-5:00.  School gets out at 2:30 and most weeks are only 4 days because of faculty meetings or other events. What are your typical rehearsal start and end times for high ...
Posted By Melissa Gibson 09-11-2017 00:07
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As much as I loved seeing our local community theatre do "A Few Good Men" this summer, and had quite a few of my high school kids in it (including my son), it's got quite a few F bombs that the movie does not.  Your admin would probably not approve of it and there's the issue of Markinson's suicide that ...
Posted By Melissa Gibson 09-08-2017 15:22
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We did this play last year and I had to recruit.  I ended up having two females play g-men, I moved a female playing a g-man to playing Gay Wellington (she was a freshman who filled in for others  when absent and practically stole the show as Gay).  I would have had one of the g-men play Henderson in ...
Posted By Melissa Gibson 05-30-2017 13:23
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We also just had our officer elections and had two highly qualified candidates for vice president.  I have been a member of a couple of other volunteer organizations which had multiple people in certain offices.  So we will have a Vice President of Communications and Vice President of Programming.  What ...
Posted By Melissa Gibson 12-12-2016 13:06
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The one I'm currently struggling with now..."You Can't Take It With You" and the fireworks issue (small ones in pan in Act 1, scene 1, red glow at the end of scene 2, and major explosion at the end of Act 2). Oh, and did I mention we're doing this in the thrust? The different types of staging could be ...
Posted By Melissa Gibson 12-04-2016 02:24
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Holding down the fort. Not wrecking the car. Not **** up this one year gig. Yep, I know this scenario very well, but towards the end of the year when I was expecting the regular teacher to return and he decided not to, I immediately decided that I'd like to stay in the position if the school would have ...
Posted By Melissa Gibson 06-16-2016 12:09
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Hi Charlotte! I just joined EdTA because I'm also a newbie, but I have a tad more experience than you do. This past school year, I was originally going to just be a long-term sub for 9 weeks, then 2-3 weeks before school began I was asked to do the full year teaching creative writing and drama. I had ...