Trabuco Hills High School's
Off The Wall
Theatre Company
Meet The Director
Mr. Beidler has directed the Trabuco
Hills High School Production Company since the school opened in 1985. Prior to
that time he started and directed the drama program at Serrano Intermediate and
directed Summer Stock Shakespeare at El Toro High School.
Mr. Beidler has directed a number of
award winning plays at Trabuco including: Hidden - The Story of Anne Frank
(which he wrote), The Girl In The Mirror, Little Women, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Flowers for
Algernon (All receiving 1st place in the Orange County Superintendents
Competition.) Voices From The High School and The Miser (2nd
place Orange County Superintendents Competition.) Amadeus (1st place
Overall Technical Production Saddleback College High School Theatre Festival,
and 2nd place Orange County Superintendents Competition.)
Musicals directed by Mr. Beidler
include, Oliver (1986), Grease (1987, 1997, 2011), Oklahoma (1988, 1998), Bye, Bye Birdie (1989, 2003), Annie (1990), Little
Shop of Horrors (1991, 1994, 2009), Once Upon A Mattress (1992,
2010), Prom Queens Unchained, Stars In Their Eyes (for which he wrote
the book.) The Wizard of OZ, Annie Get Your Gun,(2000), Fiddler On
The Roof (2001), Cinderella (2002), The Wiz (2004), Disney’s Beauty
And The Beast (2005), Anything Goes (2006), Sweet Charity
(2007), Footloose (2008), Scrooge The Musical (2006, 2007).
Mr. Beidler has directed over 100 plays
including: The Taming of The Shrew, Arsenic and Old Lace, Imaginary Invalid,
The Merry Wives of Windsor, David and Lisa, A Christmas Carol, Romeo and
Juliet, Our Town, Lady Audley's Secret, Playing For Time, Blithe Spirit, Steel
Magnolias, Play It Again Sam, Belles, Twelfth Night, Anna Karenina, The Diary
of Anne Frank, The Man Who Came To Dinner, Fools, Dracula, Shrew - The Musical,
The Odd Couple, Black Comedy, You Can’t Take It with You, Up The Down Stair
Case, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Get Smart, Les Miserables, and Mirrors I-XXI.
Mr. Beidler also has directed and
written pieces for Drama II and Production Co. at THHS. These include adaptations
of: Spoon River Anthology, Our Town, Romeo and Juliet, The Legend of Arthur
- King of the Britons , King Arthur, (The Musical), A Christmas Carol,
Anastasia – Lost Princess, Hester, (the story of Hester Prynne) Eva
(one woman show biography of Eva Peron), The Diary of Adam and Eve. In
addition to these adaptations Mr. Beidler has written numerous pieces
for Mirrors, the full length piece, Hidden – The Story of Anne Frank,
the book for the musical Stars in Their Eyes, Broken Hearts and
Mended Dreams, and most recently, An Unnecessary Act.
In addition to directing, Mr. Beidler
has performed a variety of roles in an acting capacity. Roles include, Sir John
Falstaff and Master Page in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor,
Monsieur Diaforous in The Imaginary Invalid, The Mayor in Bye, Bye
Birdie, The Reverend in Arsenic and Old Lace, Old Joe and Mr.
Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol, Sir Michael Audley in Lady Audley's
Secret, Dr. Bradman in Blithe Spirit, and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III
in Love Letters.
Mr. Beidler is a graduate of UC Irvine
and has been a teacher for 41 years. He lives in Mission Viejo with his wife
Reesa and has one son, Steven.
Mr. Beidler is a multiple honoree in
‘Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers”, 1978 Saddleback Valley Intermediate
Teacher of the Year, a nominee for the Disney Outstanding Teacher Award, the
2004 Trabuco Hills High School Teacher of Recognition, the Saddleback Unified
School District High School Teacher of The Year, and a semi-finalist for Orange
County Teacher of The Year 2004.
E-mail
us at: thhsdrama@gmail.com
Trabuco
Hills High School
27501
Mustang Run
Mission
Viejo, CA 92691
(949)
768-1934