Drama is an integral part of many classroom activities and is available as an elective in Middle and Upper Learning.

Drama in the Classroom

Drama is woven into many classroom activities, especially in social studies and language arts classes. Teachers integrate art, music and drama into learning across the curriculum. Students in Early and Middle Learning are frequently involved in dramatic productions both in the classroom and in performances for peers and parents. In Middle and Upper Learning, students have an opportunity to take drama as an elective class.

Galloway Theatre Company

Upper Learning students have the opportunity to be involved in the Galloway Theatre Company, an after-school theatre class that performs one-act plays. Through the years, the Theatre Company has participated in the Georgia Theatre Conference and the Georgia High School Association One-Act Play Contest, earning a superlative reputation with multiple state and regional awards. In 2001, they gained international recognition as one of 24 U.S. schools invited to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

The arts are a prototype for all learning and the Theatre Company is driven by student needs, not outside performance criteria. The Company works in the ensemble mode - not just actors but dancers, musicians, technical crew, faculty, and even parents. Students participate in all the aspects of the theatre experience – acting, dancing, technical work and stage-managing. This ensemble approach also applies to the faculty's way of working together. Visual arts, music, dance, costume, lighting, sound, sets, and theatre arts all work together on productions, coming to a synthesis, thus modeling the experience that the teachers want the students to learn.

The theatre program is inclusive. Anyone who wishes to participate is found a place to contribute. While auditioning for the experience and for casting purposes, no one fails and everyone is chosen. Interest and motivation carry more weight than "talent." While we do honor talent and try to shepherd its growth, we see the growth aspect as most important. That is, each student moves forward from wherever he or she begins on an individual learning curve.

As part of the greater community, the Galloway Theatre Company presents pieces that not only stretch the capabilities of the students but also expose the audience to a level of theatre that stretches them – classical pieces, college level pieces, and pieces with mythopoetic and spiritual depth that are grounded in universal themes. We often mix music and dance and song into such works as Yeats, Shakespeare, Brecht, Euripides, and Zeami. We perform pieces from multiple cultures, as we are committed to not just color blind and gender blind casting but also to culturally diverse productions.

Chaddick Center For The Arts

The Galloway School Chaddick Center for the Arts is the showpiece of our campus – the building that brings our entire school community together.

State-of-the-art in every way, the Chaddick Center for the Arts includes a 300-seat theatre, theatre classroom and rehearsal hall, fully equipped performance support areas, choral and instrumental classrooms, and practice rooms. Visual arts space includes studios for all levels, a multi-media technology center, art classrooms, pottery studio, and a gallery for student exhibits and special events. The Center provides office space for arts faculty and parking.