This past weekend February 2nd, Perry’s APAC (Advance Pantomime and Characterization) class attended the Central Arizona Acting Festival at Campo Verde. CAAF is one of the few ways that APAC students can qualify for the national competition in Nebraska this summer. The APAC as a whole had eight acts qualify for nationals and among those were seniors Katelyn Schulze and Josh Nadeau.Schulze, now in her third year of APAC, is a Drama club officer, the school’s Improv team captain and a State Student Officer of the Arizona Thespian Society. Katelyn admits how much she will miss the class and theater in general.
“It was sad knowing it was my last time competing and hanging out with all my friends,” she said.
Schulze hopes to keep up with acting in college by minoring in theater, but she knows it will never be the same.
Nadeau is in his first year of APAC but his third year of theater; as a sophomore he was an officer of the Drama club but for his senior year he is now just an active member. Josh qualified for nationals in CAAF last year as well.
“Going to my last CAAF competition was a bittersweet feeling because it was fun yet sentimental,” he said. Even though he will miss APAC and high school theater, Nadeau plans on starting classes for majoring in theater next fall.
For the rest of the year APAC will be preparing “Murder Mystery Dinner Theater” and the play “Singin’
in the Rain.”
