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The student news site of The Archer School for Girls

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The student news site of The Archer School for Girls

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Assistant stage manager Gaia Bhavsar ('27) flips through costumes for the upper school musical. Bhavsar has been a production tech since eighth grade and said she enjoys helping out and managing productions behind the scenes.

Behind the curtain: Q&A with assistant stage manager of upper school play

By Phoebe Casparian, Staff Reporter
April 11, 2025
The three ghosts wave at the middle schoolers after they reveal they are ghosts. Lewinson said she found a newfound enjoyment in her role as a ghost because it was different from what she was used to playing. “Being a ghost is a different experience because I am not old. I am, in fact, young,” Lewinson said. “And so as a ghost, I feel like I am really able to explore a different side of myself that I am not able to see at any other time.”

‘Fall into the Stars’: Archer’s own ghost story

By Maia Kim and Vivianne Arnold
March 21, 2025
Sophomore Olivia Broock sings "Mamma Mia" from her most recent musical, "Mamma Mia!". Broock played the role of Tanya in this year's musical directed by Samara Kelly. 

Behind the curtain: Sophomore’s journey to becoming a ‘triple threat’

By Izzie Erickson, Staff Reporter
January 24, 2025
Members of the seventh grade Improv Team Sofia Micelli, Ellie Epstein, Delainy Lloyd and Elle Brutocao improvise a scene during their lunchtime performance Monday, Oct. 27. Their scenes were randomly selected by audience participants, and were all Halloween-themed.

Spooky scenes: Seventh grade improv team hosts Halloween-themed performance

By Siena Ferraro, Assistant Editor-in-Chief
November 3, 2024
Seventh graders Anika Jain and Lily Bishton Kraus rehearse a "Hetty Feather" scene ahead of auditions Sept. 12. "I saw people rehearsing their monologues in the RBG courtyard, and they all sounded amazing," Jain said. "I'm really excited to get to do the show with them. "

Into the spotlight: Middle school students audition for play, expand comfort zones

By Vivianne Arnold, Senior Reporter
September 20, 2024
Musical theater director Samara Kelly leads her Theater Arts: Introduction class through an improv game as freshman Lena Sakhnini holds out a hairbrush as a makeshift microphone. Kelly said her own high school theater community helped her explore her identity. "I loved the making something out of nothing," Kelly said.

An explosion of color and life: Through the eyes of Archer’s musical theater director

By Vivianne Arnold, Senior Reporter
December 10, 2023
Senior Megan Kelley performs a scene from "Yoga Play." The Drama Queens held their first performance of the school year Thursday, Oct. 19, during lunch in the Blackbox, and featured a collection of scenes and monologues from contemporary plays.

Drama Queens steal the show in first performance of year, present contemporary monologues, scenes

By Audrey Chang, Editor-in-Chief
October 25, 2023
Azel Al-Kadiri ('23), portraying Elinor Dashwood, and Ella Gray ('24), portraying Marianne Dashwood, hold hands during a technical rehearsal of "Sense and Sensibility." Rehearsals for the upper school play began in January and spanned over three months.

From script to stage: Making ‘Sense and Sensibility’

By Siena Ferraro, Assistant Editor-in-Chief
May 22, 2023
Andrew Ruiz sits at his desk in the media space. He is one of the new art teachers this year and teaches film.

2 new arts teachers

By Ella Chang, Staff Reporter
May 10, 2023
Ella Poon (’23) takes a breath outside the Zeller Student Center while the middle school choir rehearses behind her. Moments before, Poon had been taping up the windows behind her with black paper in preparation for "Kaleidoscope," the 2022 Winter Concert. "This is my arm workout for the day," Poon said.

Bringing it backstage: Ella Poon shares experience stage managing upper school productions

By Siena Ferraro, Assistant Editor-in-Chief
January 7, 2023
The witch reveals their spell to the Baker and his wife in a scene from the upper school musical, "Into the Woods." Senior Grace Delossa played the Baker, Bryce Collis (’25) played the Baker’s wife and Anaiya Asomugha (’24) played the witch. The musical was performed in the Blackbox theater Nov. 11, 12 and 13.

Upper school presents ‘Into the Woods,’ an interwoven musical journey

By Rose Sarner, Culture Editor
December 16, 2022
Actor Keith David speaks to upper school students about his career and what inspired him to become an actor. The panel was moderated by English teacher Jennifer Dohr. "My dance teacher said, 'Any fool can be happy all the time. Happiness is the result of your hard work,'" David said. "When you work hard, and you have earned where you are, there's cause to be happy, and no one can shake that."

Actor Keith David visits Archer for ‘inspiring’ panel about career, Shakespeare

By Nina Sperling, Senior Reporter
May 15, 2022
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