The theatre curriculum at Firestone High School is well respected and is the model for several similar programs. The current curriculum was modeled on university and conservatory-style theatre education and closely adheres to the Theatre Standards and Benchmarks created by the Ohio Department of Education.

 

Comprehensive Theatre students study an integrated core of acting and performance styles in addition to scene study, script analysis, stagecraft, improvisation, audition techniques, directing, theatre criticism, film analysis, play-writing, and screen-writing. The theatre curriculum is designed to balance performance-based or conservatory style training with scholastic and theoretical principles of the art form.

 

Firestone’s theatre curriculum is designed to prepare the student for one of the following three options:  (1) enrollment in a professional arts conservatory or nationally recognized college/university theatre program, (2) enrollment in a liberal arts college, and (3) in rare cases, direct entry into the theatre profession.