Mr. Wayne Davidson Da Vinci School for Science and the Arts THEATRE ARTS Mr. Wayne Davidson Da Vinci School for Science and the Arts

Expectations Class Preparation

Materials Needed Notebook or Multi-Class Ring Binder. Pencil or pen. Comfortable clothes and shoes. A great attitude. Materials Needed “Save the drama for your llama” -William Shakespeare

Mr. D’s List of “Do’s” Assignments will be turned in on time. They will be done with your best attention to its quality and your best effort. You will respond maturely to critiques of written work or performances. You will be respectful of fellow students by giving them your total attention when they are presenting work in class, or performing on stage. You will raise your hand in class to be recognized to speak before speaking. You will come to class prepared each day. (notebook, pen, pencil.) Mr. D’s List of “Do’s” “Everything you read on the Internet is always true.” -Abraham Lincoln

Attitude and Behavior Be positive. Be respectful (to both me and your classmates). Be prepared. Be professional. Be energetic. Be on task. Be awesome!!! Attitude and Behavior

1. Writing on desks, textbooks, walls. 2 1.Writing on desks, textbooks, walls. 2.Destruction of desks, textbooks, or anything inside my room. 3.Willfully making messes and not picking up your work area. 4. Disrespect to me, Administration, or any of your fellow students. 5. Chronically turning in assignments late or not at all. 6. Being a Green Bay Packers fan. 7. Dissing Chuck Norris. 8 Dissing the Chicago Cubs. 9 Using a video clip without the expressed written consent of Major League Baseball. List of Major No-Nos Interesting Chucktoid: There are 2417 items in the average room that Chuck Norris could use to kill you…including the room itself!

Interesting Facts about Mr. D. He has never climbed Mount Everest. Back in 1983 while he was studying at UTEP, he was cast in a small, student-directed dinner theatre production of “Joseph and The Amazing Technocolor Dreamcoat.” The first successful production lead to a second, then a season. Thirty-three years later, the UTEP Dinner Theatre is a full-fledged branch of the UTEP Theatre Department, and is the only free-standing full-time semi-professional dinner theatre located on a university campus in the U.S., as well as an El Paso institution. In 1990, Mr. D came back to the UDT to portray Molokov in “Chess”, their entry into the American College Theatre Festival, which competed with productions from over 300 colleges and universities in the United States. This production won, and was given the honor of headlining the national festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where they played to three sold-out audiences. Interesting Facts about Mr. D.

More interesting stuff about Mr. D. Mr. D returned to the UTEP Dinner Theatre in October of 2012 after twenty years to star in the opening production of the Dinner Theatre’s 30th Anniversary season, “Monty Python’s Spamalot”, where he played King Arthur to glowing reviews. It was a fitting way to close his onstage career, choosing now to focus all of his energies on teaching and directing the young actors of tomorrow. More interesting stuff about Mr. D. “We are the Knights who say…..NI!!” -from Monty Python Spamalot

Final Closing Thoughts I am extremely excited to be a part of the Da Vinci faculty this year, and am looking forward to building on what has been started here with the Theatre program. I am looking forward to a long relationship with Da Vinci, and the Burnham Wood District. So strap yourselves in, folks. I promise we are going to have fun, and learn a lot. Your teacher, Mr. D

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