Theatre Knights is Manchester's premier young people's theatre company
located at 9 Notre Dame Avenue, and Troupe #5559 of the International Thespian Society.
Our purpose is to offer an equal opportunity to our
theatre students for involvement in theatre, while providing our surrounding communities with top, professional quality productions. Through a challenging and rewarding drama program, we offer our students, their families, and our staff an on-going learning experience in all aspects of theatre
production.
Any student currently enrolled in grades 8 through 12 within the Manchester
School District can become a participating member of Theatre Knights. The company
is run just like a professional regional company by its students. Unlike most
youth groups in the region, acting is not the only area in which a student can
be involved; there are many ways to participate, including business and stage management, designing and building sets, costumes, props, lights, make-up, publicity,
videography and advertising. Those who do perform on stage are selected through a competitive audition process. Not everyone who auditions necessarily gets the chance to be on stage, but everyone can be involved in
a production if they wish to
be.
Below is the Executive Board for our 2009-2010 Season.
Seated: Zac Desmarais (Business Manager); Rachel Ihde (President); Michelle
Breault (Secretary)
Standing: Tommy Morrissette (Publicity Manager); Billy Barger (Company Agent);
Haylie Zebrowski (Historian)
The
Technical Advisor and Artistic Director of Theatre Knights, Mr. Timothy
Benner, originally came to New Hampshire from New York. Mr. Benner has
over forty years experience in professional, community and educational
theatre, and has worked throughout New York and New England as an actor, director,
stage manager, technical director, and a set and lighting
designer, as well as a backstage hand and technician. Mr. Benner earned
his undergraduate degrees at Plymouth State University and his Master of Arts
degree in Theatre at Emerson College in Boston. He has been the Advisor
and Director of the Theatre Program at Manchester High School West for the past
fifteen years, and is extremely proud of the young actors and technicians who
comprise Theatre Knights. They have worked hard over the years to earn the
well deserved reputation of Manchester's premier young people's theatre company.
Mr. Benner is especially proud that Theatre Knights has been recognized as one of the top theatre programs in the
nation by
the American High School Theatre Festival.
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