Alice Ware

Senior Alice Ware shares her experiences at Northview since her freshman year.

Nathan Ware, Special

Suhani Mahajan, Staff Writer

Senior Alice Ware is one of the busiest students at Northview High School. From softball to statistics - she does it all.

Incidentally, you may remember her from the wax museum a couple months ago. What served as entertainment for most of the student body population was an assignment for the kids in Advanced Drama, and Ware acted as Stan Lee in this year’s theme of game-changers. Ware’s act was activated by the words, “Stan, you’ve been up all night”, and upon hearing it, she would launch into an engaging monologue as Stan Lee trying to come up with a name for the character we now know as Spiderman.

As a senior, this is Ware’s first year in the Advanced Drama class, but she was involved in numerous acting opportunities at Northview since her freshman year.

 “I took Mrs. Lake’s Ninth Honors Literature class, and the last day of musical auditions my freshman year, she asked me: ‘Alice, are you going to audition?’ And this was sixth period, so I was either about to go home or about to audition and I said: ‘Yes!’ Did I have anything prepared? No. But I knew one song, and that was the song I sang,” Ware said.

Ware ended up getting the role she auditioned for in the play 9 to 5. As the auditions for the next production approached, she tried again - but with much more preparation this time. Since last year, she took up Tech Theater on top of acting. This year, she is taking it again along with Advanced Drama.

Elizabeth Lake, Ware’s freshman literature teacher as well as her current Advanced Drama teacher saw the way Ware grew into a great actress, while also developing her skills in technical theater as well as directing. 

“I saw her right away as a performer,” Lake said. “It didn’t surprise me at all when she auditioned for the spring musical her freshman year and was cast in it. And now, of course, she runs the whole thing.”

Along with acting in shows and musicals, Ware is also the president of Improv Club. She believes that although improvisation is not what comes to mind when we hear “acting”, it is a type of acting - simply created in an instant.  The freedom that comes with improvisation and acting in general is the sole reason Ware enjoys acting so much.

“My favorite thing about acting is the ability you have to become anyone, go anywhere, and do anything,” Ware said.

As much as Ware enjoys acting, she discovered that she equally enjoys being behind the camera. She took the audio and visual technology class to learn more about film since her junior year, and she hopes to pursue it - possibly as a career - in the future. Ware wishes to begin this path by trying film at a liberal arts college.

“I know that I have other interests, like theater and singing and even statistics, which I really enjoyed last year,” Ware said. “And so, a liberal arts college would help me get experience with those and if I decide to change, it’s not going to be the end of the world. It’s not like if I go to a film school where I can either do film or die.”

Ware is  involved in countless activities around the school, and she tries to actively participate whenever she can. Even though she is more drawn to the arts - as evidenced by her presidency of the Improv Club - Ware is in Science Honors Society, Math Honors Society, and National Honors Society. Her busy schedule and ability to succeed in nearly anything she does has made her a huge inspiration to her younger brother, Nathan Ware. 

“I’m very inspired by her. She does a lot of work at home along with all the work she does outside of school and home - she’s always working - so it’s really inspiring to see her put in so much effort in everything,” Nathan Ware said.