The Solano Community College Drama Club met on May 14, 2025, for their final meeting of the 2024-2025 academic year. During the outside potluck gathering, the members and club officers looked back on the previous year, had a little nosh with pizza and finger sandwiches, and voted on the new occupants of the offices of the club’s President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Public Relations.
Miranda Boykins, the Drama Club’s Vice-President, will take over as President, replacing Aurora Schuler, who has held the current position this year.
Also voted in for the fall, Jaheim Singleton, who will be the new Vice-President, and Adin Fyre will become the Club’s new Treasurer. Tejean “TJ” McGirt, the current Public Relations officer, will continue in that same role when the club resumes later in the year.
Drama Club meets weekly, usually on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 1:00 in Room 1294 of the Performing Arts Center, but has been known to meet on the apron stairs of the same building, as it did in its last Spring meeting.
According to the club flyer, it’s described that members of the club work on a variety of things from improv games and character development, to audition prep, even comedy and pupperty. The members can even see the productions that S.C.C. produces in the spring and fall for free.
The faculty advisor for the Drama Club is Christine Mani, a longtime theatre professor at Solano.
For the last few months, Drama Club has been planning a trip in July 2025 to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon and been fundraising for the trip through the selling of concessions during the intermissions of the 2024-2025 mainstage productions of The Visit, and Head Over Heels.
As of this reporting, the Club has reached its goal and secured the funds for the Ashland trip.
Drama Club, as with other clubs on the Solano campus, does not limit participation of students to just theatre students. Surprisingly, there are a good number of members in Drama Club that are not theater students, but students that are from other fields of study throughout the Solano campus. All the group asks is that new members that join is to be prepared to have fun and have a shared love of theatre and performing.
During this last potluck meeting, a young Solano student named Jesse, along with her friend Annie approached the group, lured by the delicious food available and the energetic energy of the group. Jesse expressed remorse that ” [she] would have loved to have joined the group if [she] knew about it earlier”.These are the last days for Jesse at Solano, as she is transferring to U.C. Davis in the fall.
It has been a challenge for groups like the Drama Club to add members to their roster. Solano students, as do other students throughout California and the United States, lead very busy lives beyond their academic ones. Between after-school jobs, taking care of their parents and siblings, and just life in general, may prevent them from returning to campus for club meetings. Students tend to attend club meetings on the same day as the classes that they attend. It is more convenient for them due to their schedule. It is rare, as told by various teachers, staff, and students themselves, for them to return to campus for meetings on non-class days.
With the increased number of online classes, now up to almost 50% of all classes at Solano, it may become even harder in the future for even the most dedicated student to have a more physical presence on campus. That would be unfortunate because there are at least twenty-five clubs sponsored by S.C.C., with a wide variety of interests and causes to be explored and experienced.
