The Performing Arts Center (PAC) is located on the Silver Creek Campus in Snowflake. It is home to music, theatre, and dance classes for students, dinner theatre performances, music concerts and other entertainment offerings for all community members. The PAC opened in 2003, and features a flexible black box performance space which can be configured in a variety of seating arrangements including proscenium, thrust, and arena. The space typically seats up to 300 patrons. The building also features an intimate Drama Lab performance space which seats 50 audience members.
For more information about the music or theatre programs, students should contact Dr. Mike Solomonson at 928-536-6217 or e-mail.
Auditions and Helpful Information
Auditions are held at the beginning of the Fall and Spring semesters at NPC. Auditions are open to everyone, as you do not have to be a current NPC student to audition. However, individuals who are cast in acting or technical support positions must enroll in Play Production I or II (SPT 200 or 201).
Coming up for Spring 2012, will be auditions for The Underpants on Monday, November 14th and Tuesday, November 15th from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center Main Stage.
- The Underpants has roles for 5 men and 2 women.
- The play was adapted from a German play by Carl Sternheim by renowned comic actor and playwright Steve Martein.
- The audition process will consist of cold readings from the script. Those who audition are also encouraged to perform a 1-minute comic or dramatic monologue as part of the audition--but it is not required.
- For more information, please contact Dr. Mike Solomonson at the phone number or email address listed above
Music
The Performing Arts Department is pleased to Introduce the new head of THE NPC Music program:
Julie Neish
Miss Neish (rhymes with “dish”) earned her Bachelor of Science in Music with an emphasis in Piano Performance in 2006, from Brigham Young University—Idaho. She completed her Masters in Music with an emphasis in Music Education and Choral Conducting in 2009, from George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, VA. While at GMU, Miss Neish assistant-directed and conducted the 100-member University Chorale and conducted GMU’s finest chorale ensemble—the 16-voice Vocal Chamber Ensemble. She also co-founded and co-directed the musical theatre ensemble, The Timesquare Singers, and she served as co-director of Soundcheque, a vocal jazz ensemble group. She worked as a vocal coach and collaborative pianist for the GMU Opera program and she has been a musical director for over 20 musical theatre productions and cabarets since 2002. She has additional experience in organizing touring group ensembles.
Beyond her varied choral, opera and musical theatre experiences, Miss Neish has worked as a professional stagehand and lighting designer for 9 years with employment at Prism Lighting in New York City, the Berrie Performing Arts Center in northern New Jersey, the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh, North Carolina, Disney World in Florida, and the Regency Amphitheatre in Cary, North Carolina. While at Disney World she was a certified pyrotechnician and a member of IAATSE. At the Regency Amphitheatre she designed and ran lights for concerts with Bobby McFerrin, K. D. Lang, and Harry Connick, Jr., among others. While lighting design is her technical specialty, Miss Neish has filled the roles of sound technician, rigger, stagehand, stage manager, projectionist, spotlight operator, costume designer and manager, and technical director.
The Northland Master Chorale performing during the May 2010, Spring Music Concert.
Theatre
EWwWWWelcom Inn addition to our normal production schedule at the Performing Arts Center, we also tour educational performances to area elementary and junior high schools. Since 2006, NPC touring shows have played to approximately 12,000 children. In addition, for 5 years NPC have hosted a summer Children's Theatre Project which teaches children ages 8-14 about different aspects of Theatre and performance. Pictured above is the 2010 Children's Theatre Project cast for 101 Dalmatians, which was produced through a licensing agreement with Music Theatre International and Disney. For more photo images of shows we have offered in the Performing Arts Center, check out the "Photo Gallery" link above.
