2024 MIDDLE School Play Festival: Site Details
Festival Sites
Rocky River High School | Site Details
Reidsville High School (March 8 only) | Site Details
Rocky River High School
March 7–8, 2025
2-Day Festival
Rocky River High School
10505 Clear Creek Commerce Dr
Mint Hill, NC 28227
Host: Bailey Boryczewski
bailey1.boryczewski@cms.k12.nc.us
Rocky River High School is located off of Hwy 51 in Mint Hill, NC. Please don’t trust your GPS, follow directions below.
From any direction take I-85 to I-485. From I-485 take the Hwy 51 exit (exit 43) – from the inner loop, go left off the exit ramp over the bridge – from the outer loop take a right. In about ½ a mile you will pass a CMC Medical Center on the left. Immediately after that is a stoplight. Turn left at that stoplight onto Allen Station Rd. At the traffic circle take a left, the school will be on your right.
Once you turn right into the school, continue straight and veer right around the back of the theatre. Buses and trucks park in the parking lots behind the theatre. General audience members can park in the first lot facing the theatre lobby. You will see the loading door for the theatre from the back parking lot.
- Approximate size of backstage storage area: 8′ x 12.5′
- Stage Dimensions (Playing Space): 25′ deep x 40′ wide
- Location of start line: Stage Left
- Location of finish line: Stage Right
- Load-in and load-out procedures: One show will load into stage left and three shows will load in behind a mid-stage curtain (during load-in time). Each show will load out immediately following their performance.
Tours are permitted by appointment only. Please email the host to schedule.
- Headsets: Rocky River students in the booth and backstage will have headsets. Headsets are not available to participants.
- Booth location: The booth is located at ground level at the back of the house. One student can call both light and sound cues.
- Piano/Orchestra Set-up: A piano will be provided if needed, please contact the host. It would be placed on the SR or SL stage area, in front of the proscenium wall. If a school wishes to set up a keyboard, they may set up in the same place, or in the house at the base of the stage. An electrical outlet is available there.
- Sound: Please bring cues on an MP3 player. A handheld microphone is available upon request (note on your light cue sheet).
- Lighting: Each area will have a warm and cool wash. Please specify on cue sheet. Cues will be pre-programmed.
There is a Bojangles and a Waffle House about 5 minutes from campus, but otherwise, the school is 10-15 minutes from other restaurants and fast food options. We suggest that you pack meals.
Seating may be limited during the awards ceremony. Teachers should inform parents that they may not be able to be seated during the awards, as priority will be given to students. Parents may be asked to sit in the balcony or watch from monitors in the lobby.
NCTC works to ensure that our programs are available to all of the state’s citizens, including people with disabilities. If you wish to request assistance for yourself or a student, or have questions about accessibility for any of our event spaces, please contact NCTC Executive Director Angie Hays at angelahays@nctc.org.
Reidsville High School
March 8, 2025
1-Day Festival
Reidsville High School
1901 South Park Drive
Reidsville, NC 27320
George (Tom) Murphy
gmurphy2@rock.k12.nc.us
Drop students and parents off on the South Park side closest to the front of the building. From there, students have a short walk into the main lobby. Once students are offloaded, please take your vehicle and park it on the Cypress lot side in the gravel lot.
- Approximate size of backstage storage area: 10′ x 10′
- Stage Dimensions (Playing Space): 30′ from back curtain to front of stage; 45′ wide, with an additional 10′ of width when downstage of proscenium.
- Location of start line: Stage Right
- Location of finish line: Stage Left
- Load-in and load-out procedures: Schools will load-in via the loading dock which is 5’ tall from the pavement to the level of the stage. The smallest door to the stage your set will have to go through is 12’ tall by 10’ wide.
If you wish to visit the space and tour, please contact George Murphy at gmurphy2@rock.k12.nc.us.
- Headsets: Headsets will be made available in the sound booth, light booth, stage left, stage right, and one will be located near the loading dock.
- Booth location: The sound and light booths are in separate rooms and cannot be run from the same location. The booths are not accessible by wheelchair, please contact the host and NCTC if special accommodations are needed.
- Piano/Orchestra Set-up: A piano is not available. If you are bringing a keyboard, you will find outlets on the front of the stage and backstage on both sides. We do have XLR hook-ups to the soundboard on stage left and stage right, on the stage just in front of the pit, and on the front of the apron. Schools will need to provide their own cables to hook into the system. There is room enough for your musicians to play on either the left or right wings; however, we recommend that you set up on stage left.
- Sound: Please bring your own ⅛” cable connector. Participants will not have access to a microphone.
- Lighting: We will have warm (amber) and cool (blue) color wash options (downlight). Please specify on your cue sheet. We will pre-program all cues. One follow spot is available, schools must provide their own operator.
You may bring food to eat in the lobby. There are also tables outside if the weather is nice enough for you to eat outdoors.
NCTC works to ensure that our programs are available to all of the state’s citizens, including people with disabilities. If you wish to request assistance for yourself or a student, or have questions about accessibility for any of our event spaces, please contact NCTC Executive Director Angie Hays at angelahays@nctc.org.
