| I.T.S Troupe 3380 The International Thespian Society is an honor society dedicated to excellence in high school theatre. Our local troupe sponsors school letters, sells concessions at productions, holds special events, and attends the state and national conventions. Meeting are monthly. |
| Events Officer & Member Roster Points |
| What is ITS?
ITS is Robinson’s official theatre honor society. ITS, or the International Thespian Society, is a chapter of an international organization, whose national parent organization is The Educational Theatre Association (www.edta.org), and whose state parent organization is the Virginia Thespians (www.vathespian.org). Each year Robinson’s chapter must pay annual dues to this parent organization and each member must pay a membership fee in order to be an official member of ITS. This fee pays for a full year subscription to Dramatics magazine, helps support the parent organization, and allows involvement in Regional, State, and National ITS conferences. ITS acts as the body for recording student theatre participation by tracking ITS Points, and thus determining the qualification for “lettering” in Drama at Robinson. In addition, ITS officers are elected yearly, members attend the ITS State conference, attend meetings, and raise money through concessions at theatre events. ITS members are invited to attend out-of-school events (usually with some sort of theatre link), designed to bond those most involved in the Robinson Theatre Arts department on a social level, and most importantly, to have fun. Events are entirely student-planned, costs are in some way supplemented from the ITS account, and all events are chaperoned and approved by the ITS Sponsor, Chip Rome. These events appear on the Robinson Drama calendar on the RobinsonDrama.org website. To become part of ITS, students must earn a minimum of 20 ITS points from at least two areas of theatre activity, in at least two productions. Inductions are held twice a year. Points earned are determined by the official ITS Point scale or by prior show standards. After earning 40 points, students are awarded a Robinson letter. Please direct any questions about ITS points to this year’s Clerk-Historian, Meghan Comer. Direct any questions about ITS to this year’s President, Rachel Mehaffey or look for the Robinson ITS group on Facebook. |