International Thespian Society

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CHS Thespian Society." I could have gotten up.

I could have walked over to her and asked her name, but I took a sip of my coffee.

Hot, oat milk, no sugar, tainted with the flavor of my lipstick.

Haunted Zoo?

So Haunted Zoo is a collaboration between the Hutchinson Friends of the Zoo and the Hutchinson High School Thespian Club.

It's a longstanding partnership that has been like a really fun thing for the community and for these students who are participating.

So what happens is the Thespian Club comes up with a script definitely a halloween themed script that they then kind of act out at the zoo sometimes it's on the train sometimes it's on zoo grounds this year it's going to be on zoo grounds and they will kind of have almost like a little spook walk it will be you know kind of some good spooky stuff i don't recommend it for young young kids because there will be some jump scares but we usually plan to have kind of a more family-friendly version early on, but it's still going to be kind of a fun little outing and experience for, I think,

They know.

W- The, the, the way that Tyler and I met is that the Missouri chapter of the International Thespian Society in the year 2000, '99, 2000, I don't remember.

Yeah.

'99 into 2000.

Sure

... been there twice now.

Um, and it was, I mean, the International Thespian Society was like-

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Exactly.

So tell me a little bit.

Let's talk a little bit about Oklahoma Thespians.

Yes.

So I'm always like, "Oh, I caught the acting bug there." Um, and then I didn't really get a chance to really pursue acting and go through that process with characters until high school when we had a theater program.

So I did monologue competitions with the International Thespian Society.

Uh, we did one-act plays, and then we did musicals and a lot of play productions there.

Um, so that's when I really fell in love with acting to the point where I was like, "Okay, I really, really wanna focus on this." Um, so then I pursued it professionally.