Do you want to be involved in Theatre at Churchill County High School? There are 3 ways to get involved: 

Our classes:

While our productions provide opportunities to be on- or back-stage, our theater courses is where the real learning happens. In each of these classes you'll learn skills you need to be an independent, outstanding actor or technician.

• Interested in acting? Take Theatre 1 You’ll learn how to create a story and make choices to tell your story with different acting techniques and tools. Then you can go on to Theatre 2, 3, and 4 where you will learn to use different acting methods and perform a class-play for an audience.
• Interested in musical theatre? Take Musical Theatre 1 where you’ll learn skills in acting, singing, and dance and perform in the Broadway Revue at the end of the school year. Then you can take Advanced Musical Theater.
• Interested in trying theatre out? Take Improv class where you learn and practice the skills of Improvisational Theatre. We perform an Improv Festival at the end of the semester for our friends and families.
• Do you like theatre but you don’t want to be on stage? Join our Theatre Technologies class! This is a CTE course and you can earn College Credit if you take all 3 Theatre Technologies courses and pass the exam.
• Do you like to watch movies and learn trivia and analyze the acting and how the film was produced? Take Film Studies! We watch several films throughout the semester and learn how it was made, discuss the acting, and how it was adapted from the source material. You do a bit of writing in this class too!

All of these courses will run based on student numbers. We offer them when there are more than 15 students signed up.

Our Productions

Check out our Home page and listen to the school announcements for upcoming audition information and ticket sales. If you are interested in our productions as an audience member, join our contact list by sending Mrs. Adams your first and last name and your email address via the Contact Us tool at the bottom of this page. If you've bought tickets for any of our productions through this platform you are already signed up. You can unsubscribe at any time.

A fall play: There’s no singing, just acting. We push the abilities of our students so they're learning new skills and growing their capabilities. Listen to the announcements to find out about auditions! A Winter One Act Festival: Students direct and act in these. The winner of our Festival goes on to Regionals and could possibly compete at the state and national level. The Spring Musical: We go all out for this! Acting, singing, and dancing! This is our biggest event of the year. Auditions are held in the winter and we perform in the spring.

International Thespian Troupe 3918

As you participate in our Productions you earn Thespian Points which qualify you to become a member of the International Thespian Society. We participate in the following Thespians Events:

Tech and Leadership: Learn elements of lighting, sound, construction, costumes, and props and participate in Technical Olympics. Regional Competition: Prepare an individual event in Acting, Musical Theatre, or Technical Theatre and be scored; you could qualify for the International Thespian Festival. State Festival: Travel to Las Vegas and participate in workshops in theatre, watch shows from other schools in the state, and compete for scholarships. International Thespian Festival: Travel to Bloomington Indiana to the International Thespian Festival to participate in workshops in theatre, watch shows from other schools in the nation, and compete for scholarships to college.

Field Trips

We also believe that seeing live theatre is one of the best ways to improve our own work, so we go on the following field trips:

• The Oregon Shakespeare Festival: In the spring we go to Ashland, Oregon and participate as an audience and students in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This is one of the best Shakespeare Festivals in the nation and we're so lucky we are so close and can attend.
• The Pioneer Center: We attend Load-Ins and Talk-Backs of the touring Broadway productions hosted by the Pioneer Center. We try to see these productions afterwards depending on ticket availability.

Meet our Theatre Teacher and Director:

Mrs. Ashley Adams is excited to be a part of Churchill County High School and to contribute to the amazing arts culture in Fallon. When she was in high school Mrs. Adams was a member of her high school band and choir and played flute and trombone and sang alto. She didn't have a high school theatre teacher but she participated in her school plays. Mrs. Adams wanted to be a teacher for most of her life and earned her Bachelor's Degree in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in Secondary Education from The University of Northern Colorado in 2009. She then taught for 5 years at Adams City High School in Commerce City, Colorado and then for 5 years at Spanish Springs High School in Sparks.  She grew up in a small community and is excited to return to her small-town roots after living and teaching in urban areas for so long. Mrs. Adams became the theatre teacher in Fallon in the fall of 2021 and is excited to teach at her third-generation Fallonite husband Keith Adams' Alma Mater. She has directed more than 20 shows including Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Shrek the Musical, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Freaky Friday. In her spare time Mrs. Adams enjoys reading, crafting, and making home improvements.