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- **Posted:** 2024-11-18T23:55:09.000+00:00
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MacTheatre hosted a technical theatre workshop for incoming eighth graders on Saturday, Nov. 9 in the MAC. The hope was to better prepare them for upcoming Fine Arts Academy auditions. Tech major Zwi Mesa was one of the hosts, there to answer questions and give some advice. 

“It was super fun,” Mesa said. “We got to show them how to tie knots; they got to ask questions and talk about their past experiences”. 

The kids were mostly from Lamar, but a couple students from both Lively and Kealing attended as well. The workshop displayed projects from past tech majors, who got into the program after successfully navigating the same audition process. 

Senior Crystal Patterson helped explain the process to the eighth graders. 

“There’s three different phases,” Patterson said. “There’s a Google form where you write about what you’ve done, then there’s an interview. That’s where you present your third part, the project.” 

There’s different options for the project, such as costume design, set design for a celebrity’s dinner party or a sound biography. 

“Whatever they choose to do, that’s not going to dictate what tech they do once they’re in the program,” Mesa said. “Even if they do their project on costumes, they can do sound or scenic”.

The program doesn’t accept a lot of students every year, so Director of Technical Theatre Kristin Vandenberg has to be selective when it comes to reviewing the applications.

“She’s really just looking for people who are interested,” Mesa said. “What she wants to see is a spark.” 

Caption by Tegan Hahn. Photos by Lucy Zanker.

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