Drama Teachers Share Their Horror Stories

Drama teachers recall their most bizarre stories.
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[@miguelvillanueva3383]

A teacher's passion does not match the amount of money they make...

[@recoil53]

Which is why they get so much support for strikes.

[@filipinodragonfruit8178]

Bugs Bunny and the amount of work they do and the time they sacrifice

[@oliviaa7103]

The entire summers off do tho.

[@bettyosullivan6800]

Bruh sometimes it does

[@elfthe_yes]

Genius

[@sneakerhead6625]

the way to spot a drama teacher: *jazzy* hand movements

[@lyndsays1373]

PLEASE DO SUMMER CAMP COUNSELOR HORROR STORIES

[@RandomSwiftie13]

Lol yes!

[@lib5864]

I've got some GOOD ones

[@outerbanks1814]

Olivia Anderson tell me one!

[@toodlesuwu565]

Lyndsay S more like LyndYAS s

[@HoneyCat_Comb]

YES!

[@frida6049]

You could say they’ve got a lot of ~drama~

[@okashi10]

*drums*

[@Platinum6969]

badum tss

[@Urmomisdele]

ba dum tss

[@Hellopokebowl]

*owo*

[@yasminajimenez664]

😂👍

[@bellak46]

Okay the blood and the prison escape are horror stories. The other stories are just showbiz baby

[@Madison-us1sq]

EXACTLY!!

[@illonakrutiy3587]

Johnny needs to get smacked🤦🏻‍♀️

[@kevinadams1835]

Illona Krutiy as an actor you *never* quit a show unless you have a fever or are really sick.

[@chloeo230]

I was a drama camp counselor last summer. We worked on the little mermaid for three weeks. About a week before the big night, a strain of hand foot and mouth disease RIPPED through the camp and knocked out our flounder, Eric, and scuttle in one fell swoop, and of course, I caught it too. I finished teaching choreography from quarantine through a window while the infected kids wept hysterically because they not only had to miss the show, but also had painful red blisters in their throats.

[@christianachristmas5092]

Chloe O'Dell that’s really sad

[@isabellaphilippi6798]

I worked at the same group of summer camps that Tommy worked at (yelled when I saw him, he's an absolute star!!) and can confirm that there's multiple kids just like Johnny at the girls camp who try to go watch the other shows when they're in ensemble/a lead role 😂

[@crimsonix16]

I would love to work with Erik he seems like a fantastic and super open teacher. I’d imagine he would make his students feel super comfortable.

[@theerikescobar]

Crimsonix Hell yeah.

[@meganmatheson4280]

Fellow drama teacher, I have chairs in my classroom that have little holes in them. I always tell the kids, “don’t stick your fingers in them” well.. guess what happened. Not only did she get stuck, she got so stuck but was trying not to draw attention cause she knew she would get in trouble. Finally she admitted what had happened but in her effort to get free had gotten so stuck that NOTHING would get her out. I had to call the firefighters to come and free her 😂

[@TheKayleeanna]

😲

[@maddiegrissom2551]

Jonnny doesn't have a red headed mother and it shows

[@MsSuprman]

As a Stage Manager, they don't want to know my horror stories 😂

[@cynologist2257]

kim wicks Lowkey do.

[@poppydriver4145]

How rude of her to have a family emergency

[@Hellopokebowl]

Poppy Driver Yes how dare she do such a horrible thing

[@kevinadams1835]

I don’t care that your grandma died Sally! Your. Doing.the . God damn. Show!

[@frooosted7880]

how is it rude to have a family emergency? I thought it was just like something happened. But appearently, she did something.

[@poppydriver4145]

@@frooosted7880 sarcasm dear

[@colleenglanville8080]

"There Was Like A River Of Blood." Sounds like a horror story to me! 🤷‍♀️

[@Azul-lu9xo]

Colleen Glanville me on my first period

[@colleenglanville8080]

@@Azul-lu9xo Same, I can relate lol! 😂😂😂

[@diosol_]

@@Azul-lu9xo sameeeee it always seems to arrive when I'm at school wearing white

[@hibanizami]

2:11 “I am in charge of all the drama that happens” 😂😂😂 tea!!!

[@victors_stuff6094]

"There was just blood" Never want to picture that again

[@emirethnegrete8316]

They said “I never signed up for your drama club”

[@lollipop96537]

Lol 😂 Nice, I love Mel

[@marniewilkins4107]

We stan Melanie Martinez

[@jlurquico]

WE STAN

[@sneakerhead6625]

melanie martinezzzzzzzzzzz

[@prettypastries3531]

We Stannnn

[@Racheell4520]

okay so apparently 15 years as a "drama teacher" means "that one time at summer camp...."??

[@sehnisweet343]

I was a makeup artist for my high school theater department and our main event was the annual haunted house- on opening night one of the actors I was doing makeup for fell off the stage and cracked a rib,,,,I ran and told the head of the theater department that we needed the understudy and he was like "well, there's no understudy, do you wanna do it?" I was like ????

[@elizabethwatts8238]

Did you?

[@sehnisweet343]

Elizabeth Weller I didn't, I wouldn't have had enough time to do my makeup and I obviously hadn't gone to the rehearsals for the actors where they learned when to jump out and stuff

[@HarrisonFraser]

I dont think that buzzfeed knows what the definition of horror stories mean

[@sundaevanil9293]

Harrison Fraser That’s rude and it’s they’re horror stories what feels like chaos to them, horror has many definitions.

[@atema5320]

I think the blood and prison escape was pretty horrifying

[@sandman4111]

Sundae Vanil their*

[@zoeanthony5755]

I'm in theatre and we had a ladder that lead up backstage and down a staircase on stage and we were lined up during a rehearsal to go out and this girl just falls like a rag doll off the ladder and me and another girl caught her. She proceeded to have a seizure and when she woke up she couldn't move so we carried her to the teacher and he was like what happened and shes like I just fell. (When people have seizure sometimes they forget what happened) and so she proceeded to keep performing. I was really mad. THE SHOW MUST GO ON

[@ham3237]

They’re being pretty *dramatic* describing stories.

[@coopermeehan2416]

they're drama teachers, thats what they do

[@car1475.]

They hired actors.

[@CookiesDC]

Lol 😆

[@Urmomisdele]

*ba dum tss*

[@TheKayleeanna]

Har dee har har! I see what you did there. 😉

[@Doctor_Ether]

A stage flat fell on me once during a drama rehearsal... Got knocked out, had a concussion for a few days, and a black eye for over a week 😂

[@chanceksmith]

*Agh Yes Lets Call Him Johnny*

[@MicTheChick22]

Honestly forever grateful I took drama. It taught me how to channel my anxiety and how to speak outwardly what I was feeling internally

[@recoil53]

In various ways, a lot of people in Hollywood said they took their dysfunction and made it into a profitable profession.

[@toothian9237]

Do band directors/music teachers next. That'll be interesting.

[@jasminejoof]

My drama teachers got fired because one was soliciting a student through snapchat and then the author one got fired bc they think he knew

[@koriboyce139]

I want Erik as my DRAMA teacher😂

[@theerikescobar]

Kori Boyce hell yeah. Thanks!

[@hstone1221]

I am a drama teacher and one time a student ripped his flesh open on stage doing something we had done a million times. He finished the show with a ripped up hand came off stage after and was like hey I think I might need some help.

[@oliviasnider2422]

i was just watching all of their hand movements the whole time💀

[@macdog7185]

A river of blood? Sounds like a heavy metal album cover

[@GabyGibson]

In my senior year of high school, we did Once Upon a Mattress. And there is one scene where I had to drag a futon mattress over myself and one of the leads to "hide" from someone. When we get up, her wig and hat is gone so I scrambled for it and almost rammed it onto her head.

[@kennadeedodds7478]

Our last school musical had a cast of 12 and there were 4 leads and since it’s a public school we have a show Friday night and Saturday night and we put the show on Friday night and Saturday all 4 leads have lost their voices and we have like choir kids being called like Saturday at noon (since we can read music) like hey come to the school we need you to sing for the musical and we were short one guy so my music teacher who was in charge of the musical sang for one guy and basically we had 3 choir kids and the teacher singing into mics backstage in the dark while the actors were lipsyncing on stage and performing

[@asim8946]

Already know this is gonna be a banger

[@boonieboons9297]

*The chills I’m having rn bRo*

[@Clarissadc]

I could have used a theatre teacher with as much passion as some of these people. My drama teacher loved pointing out those who were clearly not actors. I love to act, i think i can do a pretty good job, but she had a way of making me feel uncomfortable and some of us like outcasts. Which is kind of funny because theatre people already kind of have that image going on.

[@catebrooks6779]

Haven't watched the video yet, but I guarantee I have a worse story! One show: child falls off 12' platform, bounce off pad and right into the stage, several people get stabbed for real by fencing blades, the lead bad guy broke his ribs by falling off three stage right before opening, and the artistic director got actually stabbed, with a real (rusty!) dagger, in the gut... but played his death so well, no one noticed until he asked to be taken to hospital, after his scene ended.

[@sunnywinters2312]

My senior year of high school (2 weeks before graduation) we were doing a dinner theater show with all the choir kids and guess who just so happened to fall off the platform we were using as a stage during curtain call? Me... I got such a badly sprained ankle that I couldn't walk on it for 2 weeks (aka was using a knee scooter and wore a splint) which meant I didn't know if I was going to ACTUALLY be walking for my own graduation. Luckily my mom found me a boot I could use but maaaaan was I mad at my clumsy self for not checking my footing

[@MangaCEI]

It’s not funny, but I took drama back in High School. We had to do Monologues for our Mid Finals, and I had the scene from Steel Magnolia where the mother is morning her daughter and screaming “I just want to hit someone!” The day before I’m suppose to take my turn on stage, my step father passed away. It was awful. I went to school because I had to take all these Mid Finals. Imagine me, up on stage, just lost my dad, and I’m yelling “Why couldn’t it be me? I’m suppose to go first! I just want to hit some body!” I was a sobbing mess. I ended up running off the stage and crying my eyes out in the green room.

[@pig_rabbit6944]

I have an interesting drama student story. We had just written and directed our own 1 Act plays, and my group had just performed. It was basically I caused a drunk driving accident and everyone in the car died but me, and I was in jail. We were all covered in fake blood. Face, clothes, hair, everything. The bell rang not 2 minutes after our 1 Act ended. We didn't have time to change or get the blood off us, so we were just casually walking around a high school covered in blood. Idk what was up with our chorus teacher that day, but when we asked her if we could clean up, she said no because our accompanist was coming and she didn't want any students to look like they were coming in late. Students covered in blood is fine, but coming in late isn't. Okay then. The accompanist saw us and looked horrified, understandably. We got Best In Show for that play though, so it was worth it.

[@Clara-uw2lb]

DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE THAT IS ALMOST MURDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Kinsathic]

Erik is a really good story teller

[@therealwellin5846]

Nah, they're just being dramatic.

[@lx9414]

Those two male drama teachers are really expressive

[@elliel4736]

A boy in my class was supposed to do a flip off of a box and land on a mat. During a rehearsal, he misjudged the rotation and split his head open on the corner of the box. He got stitches and was back the next day. He didn't do the flip in the actual show.

[@bellamarie9167]

One time I was in a show and it was the Jungle Book. It was Tech week and the last night before opening night. The main character literally blanked on all of his lines and rehearsal lasted till 1:30. It was scheduled to end at 10:30.

[@jordanhelgerson5898]

please do daycare employee horror stories!

[@caralinereynolds5547]

Low-key love this

[@gigitytown540]

Why do I feel like Mary is a vampire ? Lol

[@HungerGamesGixxle]

i have a drama teacher horror story, i had theater kids!

[@equinoxGU]

30 seconds in and i already know...Erik is my favorite

[@icepenguin4437]

Wasn’t Mary a Disney princess as well wow she hustling

[@so3101]

thanks buzzfeed I didn’t know I needed this

[@gurll8784]

Do this with lifeguards

[@QueenofWheels]

The first one one was that really his girlfriend? If it was his sister did his parents know he would do that? Seems like they would do one show all together that way they can have boys and girls.

[@nolakilar916]

OMG!!! Tommy looks so much like Evan Hansen!

[@BunnyBabyForDaddy]

incarcerated kiddos i like that guy

[@bbuster8474]

Legend has it that kiddo was bitten by a radioactive spider and is not the spider boy of Earth 73.

[@oliviah.2853]

Mary was a Disney Princess

[@IshanAli]

Being a drama teacher must be fun

[@k4mov]

Nobody: Weirdos: iM fIrSttt

[@garytheapplesnail2097]

Mary was also on *’Party princesses horror stories’* 🤔

[@AmeliaRosalinaTheHedgehog]

That never happened to me when I was in drama class

[@Theraidenman]

Yo is that DJ Khaled

[@theerikescobar]

Rocker Havid yes.

[@tobiasrwolf]

YES TOMMY. THATS MY MAN!

[@bleujay6127]

Drama teachers have it rough. Kids aren’t the best people. From ages 3 to 19 They can be annoying, ungrateful, disrespectful little sh*ts. Edit: I should know because I am one.

[@maryedits2514]

I’ll come back when there are comments lmao

[@clmsnichols5787]

K

[@canthispaperclipget10ksubs33]

These stories: yeah my mom died My my boreing life’s horror story: *pours cereal* *opens fridge* nO mIlK

[@Hannahacarmona]

As a drama teacher I love this!

[@Em-mt8wx]

Mary is also the one who told the party princess horror stories 😂

[@alinaj9788]

That's a lots of Drama

[@a.g.3537]

"I'm in charge of all the drama that happens" Sounds like me

[@c.jester5599]

Ok i love these but why the hell did none of the kids have undetstudies????????? Like, is that not common??????

[@miguelvillanueva3383]

Teaching isn't worth it. No $

[@Whizkidd2025]

Bugs Bunny - most don’t do it for money.

[@miguelvillanueva3383]

@@Whizkidd2025 most should start doing things for money

[@Whizkidd2025]

Bugs Bunny - not everyone wants six figures. Most want the joy and five figures. That’s what some of my friends who teach say. To each his (or her) own.

[@miguelvillanueva3383]

@@Whizkidd2025 spend the rest of your life renting an apartment or small house. Bad idea

[@Whizkidd2025]

Bugs Bunny • what’s wrong with an apartment? Lol. As long as you got what you need/want in that or a house, then it works for them. Not everything is about money, Bugs.

[@shirapotheker8521]

Do woodshop teachers horror stories

[@Urmomisdele]

me: reads title also me: *I NEVER SIGNED UP FOR YOUR DRAMA-* oh wait

[@lucyicanel]

Well the zipper on my costume broke during a quick change so there's that. Bonus, they were recording the performance that night.

[@cynologist2257]

My theater teacher told us a story about how one time she had two coffins on the plays set (yes, real used coffins) and the lid breaks off in the middle of the show.😂🤣

[@Poonamsmartkitchen]

Nice

[@MJTVideos]

I WENT TO THE SAME CAMP AS THE FIRST GUY AND I REMEMBER THAT STORY LMAOO

[@FinalStardust0]

I’m only through the first two but both of these could have been solved by having an understudy...

[@DD-oo4sg]

FinalStardust ikr? I was wondering why they didn’t have one! Especially for the Ariel role. You should always have an understudy for the lead(s)

[@Whizkidd2025]

FinalStardust - true. I guess they didn’t think a child type production would need an understudy.

[@TheUniversegirl99]

For the first one though - No one understudies ensemble characters lol

[@Whizkidd2025]

TheUniversegirl99 • The Little Mermaid isn’t exactly an ensemble production though. Lol. Ariel is the lead and could benefit from an understudy.

[@TheUniversegirl99]

@@Whizkidd2025 I prefaced my comment "for the first one"...

[@nikorada1212]

Tommy dickie and erik escobar...

[@ellen2494]

I wish they were my drama teachers :

[@nadiadansani2139]

That guy said 15 years looking fresh outta college.

[@RosyCastillo_93]

I loved the way they told their stories, it was so animated and engaging👌

[@zoegreen-mizel6276]

yeah I was at that jewish summer camp, I played prince Eric in that show...

[@ananya7751]

i thought erik was dj khaled at first glance

[@sleepylionking1103]

I wish I had these as drama teachers. I’m doing Mary Poppins as an ensemble (that means in a sweep, costumer, park stroller, etc.) and I hate my drama teacher. She’s sweet but I feel like I’m judged hard by her.

[@gracem6723]

I have several horror stories from acting. They are kinda hilarious

[@hazelreeva3790]

Hey this Mary women was in one of the other buzzfeed horror stories too.. "Party princesses share their horror stories 🤨"

[@avalasialove]

It makes sense. If you’re going to be a character at a party, it helps to have some experience with theater.

[@faepunk]

🎵🎶One of these things is not like the others...🎶

[@thambidave]

That first guy looks like Taran Killam

[@jakebowen8617]

Now let’s spot the flamboyant one 🤪

[@drewdyer7553]

these teachers got nothin on me👏🏼😪

[@tonguepop9453]

My theatre teacher once told me about a disgruntled student burning down set pieces cause she was made she didn't get the lead. ;-;

[@infuse8255]

My drama teacher mr. nease should have been on here for the time he was accused of being a pedophile.

[@piercebrookins2092]

I was at the camp tommie was talking about when he did thag

[@piercebrookins2092]

That

[@TheJusticeLeague]

not horror stories just normal stories

[@stethespaniard2]

Only the swing one as really a horror story. Oh no there's nobody to play ariel...Why isn't there an understudy in case this happens ?

[@kristinlatu]

Something hilarious that would be an amazing video is Comcast employees horror stories. We have a ton. Everyone hates comcast. Buy we have some of the most difficult clients. Make great stores

[@kileylear]

🥺