Dreyfoos School of the Arts
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Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts (DSOA) is a public high school
located in West Palm Beach, Florida
. Formerly named the Palm Beach County School of the Arts (also known as School of the Arts or SOA), the school was renamed in recognition of a 1997 donation of $1 million by Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr.
, a West Palm Beach philanthropist
.
DSOA is a magnet school
, with students coming from across Palm Beach County
. Students are accepted through a process of competitive auditions for one of the six art areas. Once accepted, students belong to one of the school's six art
departments: Communication Arts, Dance, Digital Media, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts. Students are then said to 'major' in their art area, taking at least two art area classes per year in addition to other academic and other classes. Dreyfoos has appeared on various nationwide 'Top High School' lists since 2005. The school is accredited
by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
(SACS).
The school's campus is located in downtown West Palm Beach at 501 South Sapodilla Avenue, adjacent to the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
and the CityPlace
district. Located across Tamarind Avenue is the Tri-Rail
train station
, on which many students from the southeastern part of the county regularly commute.
DSOA is administrated by the School District of Palm Beach County
, which also provides most of its funding. The school receives supplementary funds from the School of the Arts Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
.
. Most students enter at grade nine, although students in higher grades may apply to transfer to DSOA in later years. The audition process takes place on a yearly basis; no mid-year transfers are conducted. Only legal residents of Palm Beach County may audition.
Prospective students must first submit the Choice Programs Application to the School District of Palm Beach County's Department of School Choice and Choice Programs by December of the preceding school year. Auditioning students must then attend an Audition Sign-Up Day to schedule their audition. This typically occurs in mid to late January. Audition dates run from late January through early March. Audition results and admission decisions are then mailed to prospective students on a date determined by the school district, typically in mid-April.
class as well as a semester
of sculpture
and a semester of either 2-D design
or photography
. In subsequent years, students are allowed and often encouraged to specialize in an area of the department: Creative writing
, graphics
, journalism
, television
, film
, or speech and debate for communications majors; technical theatre, acting
, or musical theatre
for theatre majors; sculpture, painting, photography or printmaking
for visual arts majors; ballet
or modern
for dance majors. The one exception is music, in which a student is given intensive training in their instrument of expertise (or voice) for all four years. Music majors include band
, keyboard
, orchestra
, and vocal
.
Training at the school emphasizes professional skills. Students learn through classes, lessons, ensemble rehearsal
s, and performing.
Dreyfoos student Rebecca Mock was named as one of the 20 national Presidential Scholars in the Arts in 2007.
Policy Forum competition in New York City in 2006 and 2007.
Silver Key, National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, New York City, 2007;
Short Film, El Dentista; A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts Communication Students; Ruby Hernandez, Michelle Motter and Christine Valentim
Palm Beach International Film Festival:
1st Place High School Feature/Shorts and Documentaries
A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts Communication Students; Nicole Groton, Emily Englehardt, David Kossin, and Sandon Simmons.
1st Place Poster Awards
A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts Communication Students; Joseph Gerbino and Alison Schwartz.
1st Place Viral Video Award
A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts Visual Arts Student; Grant Yansura.
Audience Choice Award Award
A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts Communication Students; Joseph Gerbino, Daniel Satinoff, Errol Sabinano, Joseph Poach, and (G-Star Student) Houston Davis Jones.
The Collaborative Film Productions Club won 1st place in the High School Narrative category at the 2008 Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival for the film "Wednesday".
The TV production team of 2008-2009 won the prestigious NSPA Broadcast Pacemaker award.
The TV Production team of 2009-2010 won a Broadcast Pacemaker Finalist award.
accepted for dance, a remarkable two came from Dreyfoos.
NARAS (National Association of Arts and Science) Foundation and was declared a GRAMMY Gold
Division School http://www.grammyintheschools.com/.
The music department at Dreyfoos includes Band, Strings, Vocal, and Keyboard majors.
Award, Outstanding Student Award, & Hall of Fame Teacher Award (the first time in the 74 year-history of this organization that one school received all three awards).
The School's theatre department has also been one of only 10 schools each year selected to perform their Mainstage productions at the Florida State Thespian Competition for the past 4 years. The Florida State Thespian Competition is the largest high school thespian competition in the World.
Past plays include:
2004: Nine Armenians* and Ragtime
2005: Dames at Sea and Of Mice and Men
2006: Trojan Women* and The Secret Garden
2007: As You Like It* and Ain't Misbehavin
2008: Our Town* and West Side Story
2009: FAME: The Musical* and 45 Seconds from Broadway
2010: Crazy for You and The Last Night of Ballyhoo
2011: Noises Off and Hairspray
2012: Midsummer* and Metamorphoses
(All Asterisked Plays were Mainstaged at the Florida State Thespian Festival)
The Dreyfoos School of the Arts Debate team won the prestigious National Public Policy Forum for the second year in a row in 2007. It is not only the first school to win the New York University
/Bickel and Brewer Law Firm competition in consecutive years, but is the first public high school to win the competition in its history.
In 2008, the school's student newsmagazine, The Muse, won the National Scholastic Press Association
's prestigious Newspaper Pacemaker award, a recognition of the top student publications in the United States. This is the second time Dreyfoos has won the award, having earned it previously in 2004 to become the first school publication in Florida to do so. The Muse also won fifth place in "Best in Show" at the 2008 Fall Convention of the National Scholastic Press Association, having previously earned eighth place at the 2006 Spring Convention.
The school's literary magazine, Seeds, received the prestigious National Scholastic Press Association Magazine Pacemaker in 2009. Seeds also received fourth place in "Best in Show" at the 2007 Fall Convention of the National Scholastic Press Association.
The school's newscast, "DSOA Today", received fourth place in "Best in Show" at the 2005 Spring Convention of the National Scholastic Press Association.
The school's Theatre Department won the Southeastern Theatre Conference festival with its production of Kindertransport. Numerous other productions have received high ratings at the Florida Theatre Conference and the Florida State Thespian Festival.
In 1996 the Theatre Department was invited to the much popular State Festival in Tampa, FL. The festival showcased the state's top talents in performance among High School students. The Department performed a "Caribbean-style" spin on the Shakespeare classic, "Twelfth Night" starring among others Trevares J. Thompson.
. Twin Lakes was founded in 1908 as Palm Beach High School; it was established one year before the founding of the county itself and is the oldest high school in the county. Originally for whites, Palm Beach High merged in the 1970-1971 school year with the black Roosevelt High School following integration
, forming Twin Lakes High School. In 1988, following a decision by the Palm Beach County School Board, Twin Lakes was closed. The school moved to a new site and was renamed Palm Beach Lakes Community High School. The old campus buildings were boarded up and were slated for demolition.
Several years later, however, the campus was renovated. In 1997 it re-opened as the site of the Dreyfoos School of the Arts. DSOA was previously located on the former site of North Shore High School, now BAK Middle School of the Arts, in Mangonia Park
(the site now occupied by the Bak Middle School of the Arts). Before being renamed after Dreyfoos and moving to the new campus, the school was known as the Palm Beach County School of the Arts.
The school recently celebrated its 100-Year Celebration with the "100 Years on the Hill" event.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located in West Palm Beach, Florida
West Palm Beach, Florida
West Palm Beach, is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and is the most populous city in and county seat of Palm Beach County, the third most populous county in Florida with a 2010 population of 1,320,134. The city is also the oldest incorporated municipality in South Florida...
. Formerly named the Palm Beach County School of the Arts (also known as School of the Arts or SOA), the school was renamed in recognition of a 1997 donation of $1 million by Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr.
Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr.
Alexander W Dreyfoos, Jr. is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist living in West Palm Beach, Florida. After graduating from the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1954 and Harvard Business School in 1958, he founded Photo Electronics Corporation, a company...
, a West Palm Beach philanthropist
Philanthropist
A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes...
.
DSOA is a magnet school
Magnet school
In education in the United States, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. "Magnet" refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities as school zones that feed into certain schools.There are magnet schools at the...
, with students coming from across Palm Beach County
Palm Beach County, Florida
Palm Beach County is the largest county in the state of Florida in total area, and third in population. As of 2010, the county's estimated population was 1,320,134, making it the twenty-eighth most populous in the United States...
. Students are accepted through a process of competitive auditions for one of the six art areas. Once accepted, students belong to one of the school's six art
ARts
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departments: Communication Arts, Dance, Digital Media, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts. Students are then said to 'major' in their art area, taking at least two art area classes per year in addition to other academic and other classes. Dreyfoos has appeared on various nationwide 'Top High School' lists since 2005. The school is accredited
Educational accreditation
Educational accreditation is a type of quality assurance process under which services and operations of educational institutions or programs are evaluated by an external body to determine if applicable standards are met...
by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is one of the six regional accreditation organizations recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation...
(SACS).
The school's campus is located in downtown West Palm Beach at 501 South Sapodilla Avenue, adjacent to the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts center in downtown West Palm Beach, Florida.-Facilities:The Kravis Center opened in 1992 and was constructed at a cost of $63 million. The center holds some 800 events each year with over 400,000 people in attendance annually...
and the CityPlace
CityPlace
CityPlace is an upscale lifestyle center in downtown West Palm Beach, Florida along South Rosemary Avenue. Besides from shops, the center also includes rental apartments, condos, and offices....
district. Located across Tamarind Avenue is the Tri-Rail
Tri-Rail
Tri-Rail is a commuter rail line linking Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. It is run by the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority. The system has 18 stations along the South Florida coast...
train station
West Palm Beach (Tri-Rail station)
West Palm Beach Station is a train station in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida, which is served by Amtrak passenger rail and Tri-Rail commuter rail service. It is located at 203 - 209 South Tamarind Avenue, south of First Street/Banyan Boulevard....
, on which many students from the southeastern part of the county regularly commute.
DSOA is administrated by the School District of Palm Beach County
School District of Palm Beach County
The School District of Palm Beach County is the thirteenth largest public school district in the United States, and the fifth largest school district in Florida. The District encompasses all of Palm Beach County. For the 2010-2011 academic year, enrollment totals 171,692 students in Pre-K through...
, which also provides most of its funding. The school receives supplementary funds from the School of the Arts Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
.
Admissions
All DSOA students are accepted by competitive auditionAudition
An audition is a sample performance by an actor, singer, musician, dancer or other performing artist.Audition may also refer to:* The sense of hearing* Adobe Audition, audio editing software...
. Most students enter at grade nine, although students in higher grades may apply to transfer to DSOA in later years. The audition process takes place on a yearly basis; no mid-year transfers are conducted. Only legal residents of Palm Beach County may audition.
Prospective students must first submit the Choice Programs Application to the School District of Palm Beach County's Department of School Choice and Choice Programs by December of the preceding school year. Auditioning students must then attend an Audition Sign-Up Day to schedule their audition. This typically occurs in mid to late January. Audition dates run from late January through early March. Audition results and admission decisions are then mailed to prospective students on a date determined by the school district, typically in mid-April.
Curriculum
Students in their first year at DSOA are given a rounded course selection in their art area. First-year visual arts majors, for example, take a year-long drawingDrawing
Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...
class as well as a semester
Academic term
An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. These divisions may be called terms...
of sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
and a semester of either 2-D design
Design
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
or photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
. In subsequent years, students are allowed and often encouraged to specialize in an area of the department: Creative writing
Creative writing
Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems...
, graphics
Graphics
Graphics are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings,or...
, journalism
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
, television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
, film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, or speech and debate for communications majors; technical theatre, acting
Acting
Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play....
, or musical theatre
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
for theatre majors; sculpture, painting, photography or printmaking
Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...
for visual arts majors; ballet
Ballet
Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
or modern
Modern dance
Modern dance is a dance form developed in the early 20th century. Although the term Modern dance has also been applied to a category of 20th Century ballroom dances, Modern dance as a term usually refers to 20th century concert dance.-Intro:...
for dance majors. The one exception is music, in which a student is given intensive training in their instrument of expertise (or voice) for all four years. Music majors include band
School band
A school band is a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music together. A concert band is usually under the direction of one or more conductors...
, keyboard
Musical keyboard
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
, orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
, and vocal
Vocal music
Vocal music is a genre of music performed by one or more singers, with or without instrumental accompaniment, in which singing provides the main focus of the piece. Music which employs singing but does not feature it prominently is generally considered instrumental music Vocal music is a genre of...
.
Training at the school emphasizes professional skills. Students learn through classes, lessons, ensemble rehearsal
Rehearsal
For other uses, see Rehearsal or Dress rehearsal A rehearsal is a preparatory event in music and theatre that is performed before the official public performance, as a form of practice, and to ensure that all details of the performance are adequately prepared and coordinated for professional...
s, and performing.
Visual Arts
According to The College Board’s 2007 Report to the Nation, the studio art advanced placement students at The Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts had the highest percentage of students passing the AP exam of any large high school in the world. This is the third time the school’s visual art department has received this distinction, having achieved it previously in 2005 and 2006.Dreyfoos student Rebecca Mock was named as one of the 20 national Presidential Scholars in the Arts in 2007.
Communication Arts
The Dreyfoos Speech and Debate team won #1 in the nation at the annual Bickel and Brewer NationalPolicy Forum competition in New York City in 2006 and 2007.
Silver Key, National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, New York City, 2007;
Short Film, El Dentista; A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts Communication Students; Ruby Hernandez, Michelle Motter and Christine Valentim
Palm Beach International Film Festival:
1st Place High School Feature/Shorts and Documentaries
A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts Communication Students; Nicole Groton, Emily Englehardt, David Kossin, and Sandon Simmons.
1st Place Poster Awards
A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts Communication Students; Joseph Gerbino and Alison Schwartz.
1st Place Viral Video Award
A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts Visual Arts Student; Grant Yansura.
Audience Choice Award Award
A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts Communication Students; Joseph Gerbino, Daniel Satinoff, Errol Sabinano, Joseph Poach, and (G-Star Student) Houston Davis Jones.
The Collaborative Film Productions Club won 1st place in the High School Narrative category at the 2008 Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival for the film "Wednesday".
The TV production team of 2008-2009 won the prestigious NSPA Broadcast Pacemaker award.
The TV Production team of 2009-2010 won a Broadcast Pacemaker Finalist award.
Dance
The Dance Department provides intensive training in different styles and techniques of jazz, ballet, pointe and modern dance. In 2008, out of the 12 men Juilliard SchoolJuilliard School
The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...
accepted for dance, a remarkable two came from Dreyfoos.
Digital Media
This department, a new addition to the school, started in the 2006-2007 school year. The program was created by blending two dynamic programs, Communication Arts and Visual Arts. Students are offered classes in film and digital video, production, photography – traditional and digital, animation and graphic design. Students in this program work with both the moving image and the still image to create narrative experimental, documentary and short films of a variety of genres.Music
Dreyfoos Music Department was selected as one of the top ten music programs in the country by theNARAS (National Association of Arts and Science) Foundation and was declared a GRAMMY Gold
Division School http://www.grammyintheschools.com/.
The music department at Dreyfoos includes Band, Strings, Vocal, and Keyboard majors.
Theatre
The Dreyfoos Theatre Department received the Educational Theatre Association’s Outstanding SchoolAward, Outstanding Student Award, & Hall of Fame Teacher Award (the first time in the 74 year-history of this organization that one school received all three awards).
The School's theatre department has also been one of only 10 schools each year selected to perform their Mainstage productions at the Florida State Thespian Competition for the past 4 years. The Florida State Thespian Competition is the largest high school thespian competition in the World.
Past plays include:
2004: Nine Armenians* and Ragtime
2005: Dames at Sea and Of Mice and Men
2006: Trojan Women* and The Secret Garden
2007: As You Like It* and Ain't Misbehavin
2008: Our Town* and West Side Story
2009: FAME: The Musical* and 45 Seconds from Broadway
2010: Crazy for You and The Last Night of Ballyhoo
2011: Noises Off and Hairspray
2012: Midsummer* and Metamorphoses
(All Asterisked Plays were Mainstaged at the Florida State Thespian Festival)
- Named an Education Theatre Association Outstanding High School Theatre Program
- Performing on the Mainstage of the Florida State Thespian Festival twelve times in the last fourteen years
- Two-time Winner of the Southeastern Theatre Conference Secondary School Play Competition
- Four-time Winner of the Florida Theatre Conference Secondary School Play Competition
- Most awards for a single school at the District Thespian One-Act Play Competition
- Most awards for a single school at the District Thespian Individual Event Festival
Alumni and accolades
Like the Class of 2009, the Class of 2010 boasted a 100% graduation rate with 97% of the graduating class going on to attend post-secondary educational institutions. Additionally, the Class of 2010 collectively received over $19 million in scholarship offers.The Dreyfoos School of the Arts Debate team won the prestigious National Public Policy Forum for the second year in a row in 2007. It is not only the first school to win the New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
/Bickel and Brewer Law Firm competition in consecutive years, but is the first public high school to win the competition in its history.
In 2008, the school's student newsmagazine, The Muse, won the National Scholastic Press Association
National Scholastic Press Association
The National Scholastic Press Association is a nonprofit organization founded in 1921 for high school and secondary school publications in the United States. The association is membership-based and annually hosts high school journalism conventions across the country...
's prestigious Newspaper Pacemaker award, a recognition of the top student publications in the United States. This is the second time Dreyfoos has won the award, having earned it previously in 2004 to become the first school publication in Florida to do so. The Muse also won fifth place in "Best in Show" at the 2008 Fall Convention of the National Scholastic Press Association, having previously earned eighth place at the 2006 Spring Convention.
The school's literary magazine, Seeds, received the prestigious National Scholastic Press Association Magazine Pacemaker in 2009. Seeds also received fourth place in "Best in Show" at the 2007 Fall Convention of the National Scholastic Press Association.
The school's newscast, "DSOA Today", received fourth place in "Best in Show" at the 2005 Spring Convention of the National Scholastic Press Association.
The school's Theatre Department won the Southeastern Theatre Conference festival with its production of Kindertransport. Numerous other productions have received high ratings at the Florida Theatre Conference and the Florida State Thespian Festival.
In 1996 the Theatre Department was invited to the much popular State Festival in Tampa, FL. The festival showcased the state's top talents in performance among High School students. The Department performed a "Caribbean-style" spin on the Shakespeare classic, "Twelfth Night" starring among others Trevares J. Thompson.
Dreyfoos Alumni
- 79 have started their own theatre companies (Kimberlea Kressal’s Estrotribe, Randi Berry’s Wreckio Theatre, & David Rodriguez’s 2 Cities Production Companies in NY), and film companies (Adam Cronan’s Bama Productions).
- 533 have performed in local & regional theatres (Gretchen Porro at Cincinnati Playhouse, Greg Roman at the Ahmanson Theatre and The Groundlings in Los Angeles, Brandon Morris at Gable Stage & City Theatre, Jonathan Horvath & Lorenzo Guittierez at Atlantis Playhouse, Brad Barfield and Natasha Sherritt at Florida Stage, Johnny Mineo at Mosaic Theatre, Erin Krakow with Sally Struthers in Steel Magnolias).
- 363 have appeared on television (Sharon Pierre in Louis on Lincoln Heights, Billy Bell in So You Think You Can DanceSo You Think You Can Dance (U.S. TV series)So You Think You Can Dance is an American dance competition and reality show that airs on Fox in the United States.The series first premiered on July 20, 2005, and was created by American Idol producers Simon Fuller and Nigel Lythgoe and is produced by 19 Entertainment and Dick Clark Productions...
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, Reid EwingReid EwingReid Ewing is an American actor best known for his recurring guest role as Dylan on the ABC comedy Modern Family.-Life and career:...
in Modern FamilyModern FamilyModern Family is an American television comedy series created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan, which debuted on ABC on September 23, 2009. Lloyd and Levitan serve as showrunner and executive producers, under their Levitan-Lloyd Productions label...
, Eric Goertz on Palm Beach County Local News).
- 940 have worked with casting agencies (Megan Larche for Binder Casting, Danielle Pretsfelder for Nickleodeon).
- 14 are in national tours (Daniel Rysak in Cats).
- 45 have appeared in commercials (Deprece Reddick & Francesca Tosti for Pepsi, Daniel Karpel for Snickers).
- 63 have appeared in major films (Joshua HartoJoshua HartoJoshua Denver Harto is an American actor, television writer and television producer.He has guest starred in a number of notable television series, including American Dreams, Carnivàle, Crossing Jordan, JAG, Strangers with Candy, The Practice, Cold Case and more...
in The Dark Knight & The Believer).
- 53 have appeared off Broadway (Carrie Specksgoor in Triptych & Harry Bayron in No Strings).
- 87 have appeared on Broadway (Eddie Pendergraft and Kristina Fernandez in Wicked).
- 43 have professionally designed (Pam Kupper: lighting at Radio City Music Hall, Mike McClain: scenery for St. Louis Opera Company, Caitlin Hunt: assistant costume for In the Heights, Aaron Leahy: Lunge Dance Collective).
- 2 are performing their own stand up comedy (Franchesca Ramsey, Eric Andre).
- 1 has performed at international theme parks (Mike Scirrotto, Tokyo Disney).
- 2 are teaching in major American art museums (Rachel Harper at the Art Institute of ChicagoArt Institute of ChicagoThe School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
& Kerry Downey at the Museum of Modern ArtMuseum of Modern ArtThe Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
, New York)
History
The school's campus is the former site of Twin Lakes High SchoolPalm Beach Lakes Community High School
Palm Beach Lakes Community High School, also known as Lakes or PBL, is a coeducational Public High School located in the Palm Beach Lakes community of West Palm Beach, Florida. It is under the jurisdiction of the School District of Palm Beach County. It was founded in 1908 as Palm Beach High School...
. Twin Lakes was founded in 1908 as Palm Beach High School; it was established one year before the founding of the county itself and is the oldest high school in the county. Originally for whites, Palm Beach High merged in the 1970-1971 school year with the black Roosevelt High School following integration
Desegregation
Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races. This is most commonly used in reference to the United States. Desegregation was long a focus of the American Civil Rights Movement, both before and after the United States Supreme Court's decision in...
, forming Twin Lakes High School. In 1988, following a decision by the Palm Beach County School Board, Twin Lakes was closed. The school moved to a new site and was renamed Palm Beach Lakes Community High School. The old campus buildings were boarded up and were slated for demolition.
Several years later, however, the campus was renovated. In 1997 it re-opened as the site of the Dreyfoos School of the Arts. DSOA was previously located on the former site of North Shore High School, now BAK Middle School of the Arts, in Mangonia Park
Mangonia Park, Florida
Mangonia Park is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is a part of Uptown West Palm, which also includes Riviera Beach & West Palm Beach. The population was 1,283 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 1,289.The Town of Mangonia...
(the site now occupied by the Bak Middle School of the Arts). Before being renamed after Dreyfoos and moving to the new campus, the school was known as the Palm Beach County School of the Arts.
The school recently celebrated its 100-Year Celebration with the "100 Years on the Hill" event.