Drama & GAPS

Kristen Arsenault
Choreographer

Missy Taddeo-DeCoste
Drama Director & Technical Director
taddeom@kingphilip.org | (508) 384-1000 ext. 3461

KP Drama produces and performs two to three plays each year. These include an annual holiday production or musical each December, a Spring production in May, and a periodic February senior-directed show. Our home is King Philip Regional High School’s Richard K. Grady Theatre, where as many as fifty students both on stage and behind the scenes work for months to bring audiences such favourite holiday shows as A Christmas Carol and It’s A Wonderful Life, musicals including Peter Pan & Little Shop of Horrors, entertaining comedies including You Can’t Take It With You, immortal Shakespearean productions including Much Ado About Nothing & The Tempest, powerful dramas such as Inherit the Wind & The Diary of Anne Frank, and dark mysteries such as The Mousetrap & And Then There Were None.  Additionally, our actors and technicians volunteer their time and expertise to assisting the annual Spring Musical at King Philip Middle School in Norfolk, MA.

Our dedicated technical theatre students are members of the Grady Auditorium Production Staff (GAPS). These students, as well as numerous alumni volunteers, design sets and build scenery for each show, create and implement lighting and audio designs, and provide operations support for all organizations and performing arts groups renting the theatre spaces of both the KPMS Auditorium and the Richard K. Grady Theatre at KPRHS.

Persons interested in supporting these performing arts programs financially through donation and/or advertising or through volunteering should contact Ms. Melissa Taddeo at taddeom@kingphilip.org for further information. You may also call Mr. Joseph Ferreira  at 508-384-1000, Ext. 3255  or FAX us at (508) 384-1006. Thank you for visiting and we hope to see YOU at our next show!

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Concept Worksheet

Designing Costumes for a show

Designing Lights for a show

Designing Scenery for a show

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Theater Knots

Program Ad Forms & Receipt Slips

Rhode Island College Theatre Department –
Our partner college theatre program

Middletown (RI) High School Drama – Our friends at Mr. Ferreira’s former high school drama program.

Wall Entertainment Lighting – Theatrical lighting specialists: repair. purchase & system installations.

Dramatic Publishing – Play script publisher

Dramatists Play Service – Play script publisher

Major Theatre Equipment Corporation – Stage rigging, extensions and curtain specialists

Pro Sound Service – Audio component, repair and installation specialists

Rosebrand – Rose Brand is North America’s largest provider of theatrical fabrics, fabrications and production supplies for the entertainment, event and display industries.

Samuel French – Play script publisher

Stage Directions Magazine – The professional technical theatre magazine.

BBC Sound Effects Library – These 16,000 BBC Sound Effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under the terms of the RemArc Licence. The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational or research purposes, as detailed in the license.

Access dataset metadata by visiting our dedicated LOD site. If you have any queries regarding usage, please contact jake.berger at bbc.co.uk

NPR: The Most Popular High School Plays and Musicals – 2018 – Courtesy of Dramatics Magazine/Educational Theatre Association