This week the Ravine highlights senior Olivia Kramer for her outstanding performances in theater in the 2024-2025 school year. Olivia is the vice president in theater and she shares a little bit of information on how she had gotten into theater and how she plans to continue her career.

Olivia tells us that she had done theater in middle school but only community theater, since when she was in middle school Covid-19 was still fresh. Before doing theater for WKHS, she had gone around and did a lot of community theater to make her performances more natural and fluent.

The Ravine asked Olivia about how she plans to stay in a spot of vice president or even moving up to president of theater. She said that “building those bonds with everyone, so that they trust you in those leadership positions, and they trust people like trying to improve the community as a whole is really just like what they’re always pushing you to really get close with everyone, and just just create like a family around it.” Olivia is very confident in her ability to work with others and create multiple bonds and relationships with people to make them feel more comfortable and at ease with others.

For one of the shows that Olivia was in she had an intimate moment with one of the other actors and she had to create a bond with this person so it would look natural enough. As Olivia said, theater makes sure that their actors are still comfortable. “Though, I do have to do a stage kiss at one point during it. And how they go about that is they have, like, an intimacy coordinator come in. Luckily, the person I’m doing a stage kiss with, like, we’re all very close with each other in theater, so I know him very well. It’s not very uncomfortable.” She explains to us how theater directors and intimacy coordinators come to make the actors feel more confident in the show and helps them get through the nerves.

 Make sure to come to see Olivia’s at WKHS theater and support her. We wish her and the theater good luck on all of their upcoming shows.