Our mission is to help students cultivate a variety of dynamic performance skill-sets in classical, modern, and experimental modes; better understand standards of excellence for each art form; satisfy their innate ability for artistic self-expression; and develop the confidence needed to showcase their achievement to a public. 

In performing arts classes and extracurricular offerings, students develop informed and thoughtful appreciation for what is artistically expressed by others, whether peers or professionals. They are also able to define what it is they want to share about themselves and choose to represent it.

We believe that experiences in the arts are essential and that they are a value for one's entire lifetime. The abstract, symbolic nature of the arts is a valid and powerful means of searching for and sharing fundamental questions and truths about the human experience. Participation in the arts inspires creativity, fosters the development of problem-solving, critical-thinking, and literacy skills, and builds self esteem and character.

An artist is vulnerable before an audience whether their work is seen in a gallery, on the stage, in a store, or in the classroom. Students build confidence as they work diligently, over time, to create a performance event that merits an audience. These experiences and the insight, confidence, and will-to-effort that result, transfer to endeavors in other arenas as well, in the present and across time.

Bob DeLibero teaches playwriting, language arts, socratic seminar, and a variety of electives. Bob has a Master’s degree in Elementary Education from Cambridge College and Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Montclair State University in New Jersey.  Bob produces both the fall play, and the winter Playwrights' Festival each year.