Senior Lucy Oligmueller gives her director’s speech to the audience before the performance, where she thanked her teachers, parents and cast. “I was very nervous for [the director’s speech] especially. I don’t like public speaking, and my hands were shaking the whole time I was doing it,” Oligmueller said. “I added a little something in mine about my grandma because she passed this year, and that was really hard for me. She had been to all of my stuff, so the fact that she couldn’t be there was kind of sad for me, so I just thanked her at the end.” Photo by Francesca Lorusso

Freshman Salem Wilson-Head sticks their head through a square window, challenging the actors in the scene to not react when making loud noises. Students did this during a mock run-through to help prevent the actors from reacting to loud noises made by the audience. Photo by Molly Scott

Props from the show sit on a restaurant table after the performance. “It’s Not You, It’s Me” was one of twelve student- directed performances and the last Frequent Friday of the school year. Oligmueller began preparations on Feb. 11, four weeks before the show. “We start planning and finding our scripts our junior year, and then we start actually performing them senior year,” Oligmueller said. “The energy of the cast was really cool, because they all kind of knew each other beforehand. In between rehearsing, they would just be cracking jokes and messing around, and it was really funny.” Photo by Francesca Lorusso

Sophomores Lila Scruggs, Bella Benevides- Bowley, Ella Valverde, Maggie Myers, Becca Whalen and freshman Salem Wilson- Head bow to the audience after finishing the Frequent Friday. Photo by Molly McDermed