There’s only one thing more infamous than “break a leg” or “M*cbeth” in the Nebraska high school theater world, and that’s Gretna one-act director, Carole Carraher.
Her one-act play directing career began in 1985 at Gretna High School, where she garnered 29 Nebraska School Activities Association (NSAA) State Play Production Championship titles and created the most successful play production program in Nebraska history before her retirement in 2022.
However, even decades after starting her career, Carraher can still recall nearly every detail of each of her 36 productions. She remembers which students stood out, her favorite parts of the scripts, what worked, or what didn’t and what she loved about each of them. And she still believes that winning a state title “never gets old.”…