“I started doing theatre in eighth grade,” junior Cadence Brown said. “It was right after the 2020 lockdown, and my family had always said, ‘Hey you should try theatre.’ Therefore I auditioned for my first show at Amarillo Little Theatre and I fell in love with the show. The show was called Ten Thousand Problems of a Teenage Girl and was solely a girls show. It was written by Carrie Huckabee who has been my teacher a couple of times at ALT. She’s written plays and musicals and it was an honor to be in one of her plays. A lot of the problems mentioned in the show, I have experienced at some point in my life. I auditioned for the One Act Play my eighth grade year, but it got cancelled. My freshman year I auditioned for The Little Mermaid, and I got a named role. I was one of the mer sisters and that was such a fun experience as well. Most of us who played the mer sisters had a really strong bond and before the show we all got our nails done together and had lunch. That’s when I began to feel all the community and family of high school theatre and that’s why I do it. I really want to continue being in productions in college and throughout the rest of my life. I know that ALT is a place that I will be able to do that if I want to. I’m trying to find a college that has everything I want to do, which is really hard. I’ve been looking into what colleges have psychology, choir, theatre and American Sign Language programs. Theater is a time where I get to step out of being myself and step into being someone else. Whenever I get to do that, it’s so liberating. It’s a fun thing you get to do with all your friends. You get to tell people a story, and you get to meet people from all different backgrounds and see people you might not have ever met. One thing that I’ve learned from theater is that it’s going to be okay. There’s so many stories about someone who gets in trouble whenever they’re young, then they figure it out and everything turns out okay.”