In the words of Chevie Hughes,  the Fine Arts Boosters’ featured artist for June, “I am so honored by this. I can’t even describe it. I’ll have to give Mrs. Roberts a huge hug next time I see her.”

Sacheverell Hughes, 18, better known as Chevie  is a performance artist and Drama Club member at Kingston High School and helps put together dramatic productions. And  as she says, “Try to keep the sanity and peace. Drama Club students are hard core.”

An actress obviously in love with life, Hughes says “In Drama I mainly love the people, knowing that through everything they’ll be there for me.   I  look up to my fellow drama members and am always impressed at their superb talents and charisma. I would only hope to be as good as some of them. Being in Drama Club,  honestly, gives me a reason to get up every morning. Being an actor teaches you so much about how the world works.”

When asked, “How long have you felt you are an actor?” Hughes  replied, “Trick question? Well, no. I’ve been in plays and acting since my sophomore year, when drama was just an excuse to be out of the house for a few more hours. But according to my mother I’ve been using my ability to keep a straight face and lack of stage fright in a deviant fashion since I was very young. I like to think I am an adept mimicker.”

In addition to the serious  and  latest   play, “The Laramie Project” Hughes feels “fairly smug” she has been in seven  KHS productions. She has done this without any formal training outside of the Drama Department  and feels she has learned acting quickly.

Hughes loves anything artistic. She loves to paint, sketch, write, film. “I’ve taken Mrs. Roberts’s creative writing class and am in advanced art right now and have also taken a video class. I looove to draw and like to film music video’s when I can find the spare time (funny). I’m also a major book worm,” she says.

Her favorite subjects are the ones that have nothing to do with numbers. Hughes eventually wants to work in the arts industry.

“I really want to do something that caters to my skill sets. And I like getting my hands dirty,” she said. “I like creating and, even more so, I love watching things being created. I would really love to be in some kind of directing position, whether movies or plays I don’t know.”

About drama teacher Mrs. Roberts, Hughes has this to say, “I honestly believe that without her our Drama Department would cease to exist. She brings a sense of peace and order to a room of stressed teenagers better than anyone I have ever seen.”

Chevie Hughes always is honored to have the label “actor” put anywhere near her and is grateful for the ways acting has changed her for the better.  We in  North Kitsap  are so  enriched by  students of the arts and their gifts to our community.