Photo Credit: Betsy Snow

The interior of the new PAC

Just when the M-A Drama Department was getting started with the new PAC, drama students are left without a teacher for next year. After having taught here at M-A for two years, Drama teacher Amanda  Peoples will be leaving her position this June. Peoples explained to her students last week that she unfortunately will not be able to continue teaching at M-A. She and her husband plan to move to Oregon where they can live more feasibly and start a family together.

Michael Farzi, Vice President of M-A’s International Thespian Society, says that “she cried, she was teary-eyed” when she told her class. Luckily, Peoples is staying until the end of the year, well after the production of “A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum”.

After only a year performing in the PAC, Peoples is disappointed that she cannot stay to see the drama department grow and thrive with the use of the new center. However, Farzi notes, “it was practically the job or her marriage”.

M-A drama students will have a hard time adjusting to the change, as Mrs. Peoples is extremely well-liked among students and faculty alike. Fellow teacher Renee Mell says that Mrs. Peoples’ leaving will be a “serious loss for M-A”. Our hope can only be that next year we will have a teacher equally as talented and dedicated to the arts as Mrs. Peoples.