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2024-2025 Season

Classes & Activities

CLASSES

Theatre Arts 1

Theatre Arts 2

Theatre Arts 3 Honors

Theatre Arts 3 Dual Enrollment

Theatre Arts 4 Honors

IB Theatre Arts SL1, SL2, & HL2

Musical Theatre

Technical Theatre 1

Technical Theatre 2

Technical Theatre 3 Honors

Technical Theatre 4 Honors

ACTIVITIES

Improv Club

National Capital Area Cappies Critics

International Thespian Society Troupe 1779

2023-2024 Theatre Arts Trip:

January 2024 = Virginia Thespian Festival

2024-2025 Theatre Arts Trip:

April 2025 = New York City Trip

Past Productions

2023-2024

• Peter and the Starcatcher
  
• Tales of Anansi
• A World Premiere!
  
• The Other Room
  
• The Addams Family
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Featured Actor in a Male Role in a ​Musical
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Hair and Makeup
  
• Twelfth Night
  

2022-2023

• She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurers Ed.
  
• NCA Cappies WIN: Props
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Comic Actor in a Male Role in a Play
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Lead Actor in a Female Role in a Play
  
• Choose Your Own Oz
  
• The Internet Is Distract- OH LOOK A KITTEN!
  
• VHSL National District Champions
  
• Disney's Beauty and the Beast
  
• Much Ado About Nothing
  

2021-2022

• Trap
  
• Alice In Wonderland
  
• Three Women and an Onion
  
• 2rd Place Region 6C Champions
  
• Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Best Female Vocalist
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Props
  
• Brandon Victor Dixon Finalist: Best Actress
  
• As You Like It
  

2020-2021

• Frankenstein
  
• For My Mourning Mijo
  
• 3rd Place at VHSL Section 6C1
  
• Coping With Quarantine
  
• Tinker Bell
  

2019-2020

• Clue On Stage: HS Edition
  
• Charlotte's Web
  
• Blu
  
• 3rd Place at VHSL Section 6C1
  
• Little Shop of Horrors - cancelled due to COVID
  
• As You Like It - cancelled due to COVID
  

2018-2019

• A Spare Me
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Run Crew
  
• Goldilocks On Trial
  
• Chairs
  
• Cinderella
  
• The Tempest
  

2017-2018

• One Lane Bridge
  
• The Secret Garden
  
• Man Woman Flower
  
• Bye Bye Birdie
  
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  

2016-2017

• A Christmas Carol
  
• Cupid and Psyche: An Internet Love Story
  
• Disney's High School Musical
  
• Beware the Jabberwock
  

2015-2016

• The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
  
• The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
  
• Guys and Dolls
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Female Vocalist in a Musical
  

2014-2015

• The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Comic Actress in a Play
  
• Waiting Room
  
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
  

2013-2014

• Novio Boy
  
• Captain Dangerous
  
• Aida: High School Edition
  

2012-2013

• The Velveteen Rabbit
  
• Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness
  
• The Wiz
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Male Dancer in a Musical
  

2011-2012

• Blithe Spirit
  
• NCA Cappies WIN: Props
  
• General of Hot Desire
  
• School House Rock
  

2010-2011

• A Christmas Carol
  
• Virtuous: A Tale of Preposterous Proportions
  
• Little Women
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Lead Actress in a Musical
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Supporting Actress in a Musical
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Best Song in a Musical
  

2009-2010

• You Can’t Take It With You
  
• Seuss Odyssey
  
• Into the Woods
  

2008-2009

• Arsenic and Old Lace
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Comic Actor in a Play
  
• Property Rites
  
• Seussical
  

2007-2008

• Working
  

2006-2007

• The King and I
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Female Dancer in a Musical
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Costumes
  

2005-2006

• Ramanoff and Juliet
  

2004-2005

• South Pacific
  
• NCA Cappies WIN: Comic Actor in a Musical
  
• NCA Cappies WIN: Sets
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Featured Actress in a Musical
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Lead Actress in a Musical
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Lead Actor in a Musical
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Best Musical
  

2003-2004

• The Secret Garden
  
• Sleeping Beauty
  
• The Princess and the Pea
  
• Livin De Life
  
• Peter Pan
  
• NCA Cappies WIN: Stage Crew
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Lead Actress in a Musical
  

2002-2003

• The Foreigner
  
• The Emperor's New Clothes
  
• Cinderella, Cinderella
  
• Godspell
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Lead Actor in a Musical
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Female Dancer in a Musical
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Ensemble in a Musical
  

2001-2002

• The Mousetrap
  
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown
  
• NCA Cappies WIN: Lead Actor in a Musical
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Female Dancer in a Musical
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Male Dancer in a Musical
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Male Vocalist in a Musical
  

2000-2001

• Light Up The Sky
  
• Robin Goodfellow
  
• Rapunzel
  
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
  
• The Wizard of Oz
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Comic Actor in a Musical
  
• NCA Cappies Nomination: Male Critic
  

The 1990's

• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, January 1999
  
• Annie
  
• Night of the Iguana
  
• Scene Performances, May-June 1996
  
• Romeo and Juliet
  
• Medea
  
• She Stoops To Conquer
  
• Tartuffe
  
• Raisin in the Sun
  
• The Matchmaker
  
• He Ain't Done Right By Nell, May-June 1996
  
• Much Ado About Nothing, May-June 1996
  
• Love Letters, March 1996
  
• The Nutcracker, December 1995
  
• Gaslight
  
• The Rainmaker
  
• Harvey
  
• Once Upon A Mattress, November 1990
  
• Dick Whittington, January 1990
  

• The 1980's
  
• Black Elk Speaks, November 1989
  
• The Crucible
  
• The Birthday of Infanta, June 1987
  
• Cowlick Ricky, June 1987
  
• Bluecrest, June 1987
  
• Guys and Dolls, April 1987
  
• Bye Bye Birdie
  
• The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, May 1984
  
• Night of January 16th, December 1983
  
• My Fair Lady
  
• Our Town, March 1983
  
• The Curious Savage, November 1982
  
• Ten Little Indians
  
• The Pajama Game, 1981
• The Philadelphia Story, February 1980
  

The 1970's

• The Sound of Music
  
• The Star Spangled Girl, May 1974
  
• The Curious Savage, April 1974
  
• The Bald Soprano, February-March 1974
  
• Marko Goes A Courtin’, February-March 1974
  
• Mrs. Belfoire, February-March 1974
  
• The Glass Menagerie, November-December 1973
  
• The Adding Machine, May 1972
  
• The Boyfriend
  
• See How They Run November 1971
  

The 1960's

• The Music Man, April 1969
  
• Oklahoma
  
• Barefoot in the Park, March 1968
  
• The Sound of Music, 1967
• My Fair Lady, 1964
• Time Out For Ginger, December 1961
  

Meet the Teachers

Ms. Reneé L. Charlow, rlcharlow@fcps.edu

Reneé L. Charlow is a seasoned theatre actor, director/producer, acting coach, and visual artist. She currently serves as part time Program Manager with The Essential Theatre of Washington D.C. Renee is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA. As a professional acting coach and educator, her students have appeared off-Broadway, on professional tour, regionally, on television and in film. Recent stage roles include Jeffery Manor, Intentions, and White Fire/Black Ash. Recent movie roles include a training video with the American Psychological Association. Renée was personal assistant to the legendary poet Ntozake Shange (for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf) from 2014 until her death in 2018 and wrote the afterword for Ms. Shange’s last published book, Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance. Renée holds an MFA in Theatre Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University and a MPS in Creative Art Therapy from Pratt Institute, and serves as Vice President of Black Theatre Network.

Mrs. Jessica Joy Satryan Shaw, jjshaw@fcps.edu

Jess Shaw has been teaching and directing Theatre at Mount Vernon High School since August 2016 and one of the Performing Arts Department Chairs since August 2020. She began her full-time teaching career in 2009 at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia, where she taught music, theatre, and film to grades 5-12 for seven years. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Theatre, concentrating her studies in directing and theatre education, as well as a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education, awarded Magna cum laude with High Honors in Music and receiving the Music Education Award for excellence in the field of Music Education. Jess also has a passion for theatre curriculum development, presenting on it at multiple conferences and serving on various committees, projects, and teams at the local, state, and national levels. For more details, please visit Jess's website at jsatryan.wixsite.com/jessicajoy.

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