The
Windsor Jaguar Troupe was created in the fall of 1995, seventeen years ago, (a total
now of 35 productions
under the direction* of Miss Julie Raven-Smart in the Windsor Unified School
District).
Graduate of Loyola Marymount University and California State University of
Sacramento, Miss Raven has won many awards in acting, set design, lighting, and
was WHS's Teacher of the Year in 2000. She has been seen acting on stage
in several of Windsor's Shakespeare on the Green productions: Twelfth
Night; All's Well That End's Well & Romeo & Juliet. Most recently in Cloverdale’s Performing
Arts Center, as “Mrs. Gibbs” in the 2012 summer production of Our Town.
Many
of the Jaguar Troupe’s trained actors and theater technicians have worked in
college and community theater productions here in Sonoma County:
- Windsor’s
Shakespeare on the Green
- Spreckles,
Rohnert Park
- 6th
Street Playhouse, Santa Rosa
- Actors
for Children’s Theater (act), Santa Rosa
- The
Raven, Healdsburg
- Cloverdale
Performing Arts Center, Cloverdale
- Santa
Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa
- Sonoma
State University, Rohnert Park
- And WHS’s own Nueva, a
performing arts 11/12 core
The
troupe has an unique reputation for producing productions of intense and
realistic acting and spectacular sets (inside the 3.5 million dollar theater
that the community provided for the school) both of which defy the typical
perception of high school productions: The Lion in Winter, Wait Until
Dark, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Oscar Wilde's Ideal Husband, Sabrina
Fair, The Elephant Man, Dracula--the Dark Romeo, Neil Simon's Rumors...etc.
Most
recently
XXXII. DEATH ON THE NILE (2010)
XXXIII. BYE, BYE BIRDIE! (MUSICAL W/ MUSIC DEPT,
2011)
XXXIV PROPERTY RITES* (STUDENT DIRECTED, RAVEN PRODUCER, FALL 2011)
XXXV. THE WOMEN
(directed & adapted by J. Raven-
Smart, 2012)
*Some
productions were student directed and funded and produced by J. Raven-Smart
Spring Production 2013
Fiddler on the Roof -- Curtain @ 7pm
Ticket Office and seating open @ 6pm
Students $10 Adults $15
Once Upon a Mattress (musical)
modern one act play -- Property Rites (student directed)
Bye, Bye, Birdie! (musical)
Agatha Christie Murder Mystery
Death on the Nile; arriving at riverboat
Agatha Christie Murder Mystery
Death on the Nile; first shooting in boat parlour.
Dance Auditions
Bye, Bye, Birdie SET
Winning Acting Award
Dressing Up for Theater Awards Night
"Disney or Fairytale Characters"
