what I know about theatre kids...

The high school that I went to was very small in Michigan. I moved there beginning of freshman year and the first real interaction I had with any other students was at the first meeting of the performing arts company. From the first meeting I felt a sense of belonging, most of the older members were very friendly and silly and they became the first friends I had in the school. The  Performing Arts Company (PAC) almost always had a show going on and so it was possible to be part of it almost year round. I write all this to explain how I really only ever was friends with PAC kids. I'm still pretty ignorant of the other cliques that existed at our small school, but I was very knowledgeable of PAC. 

We had a lot of eccentrics and weirdos, who in our group were our best techies and actors. Since most of us spent so much time together, working on shows, we were close friends. Around show times we would wear our black PAC t-shirts and got referred to as the 'drama cult' (by our own members as a term of endearment at times). We always knew where other PAC kids would be hanging out during lunch or after school-usually in our drama teacher's office. Haha, we were a bit cultish, in the best sense of the word, but I think a lot of the others students focused on our weird members and ignored the valedictorian and salutatorian who were also regular members. The actor's warm-up exercises (moses supposes... prince of paris...) also probably looked weird to those unfamiliar with them. The techies- theater technicians- certainly had an extensive lingo all their own, in regards to all the different equipment backstage. Some quick examples would be the 'vampires' were the running crew members, 'sparky' was a specific light board, 'hobbit coffin' was the sound cabinet and there were countless more.