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Miss Nelson is Missing

Evelyn Johnson, Reporter

January 28, 2026

Art and Science Academy has an annual play and this year, the theater and dance teacher, Vanessa Pooler decided on doing two plays this year. One of them is called Booked for an Adventure, another article will be released about that closer to the time of the play. The other one is called Ms. Nelson is Missing, the cast for both of the plays came out on December 22nd, 2025. Miss Nelson and Miss Viola Swamp are going to be played by Evelyn Johnson, The Principal is going to be played by Noah Carlson, Detective McSmogg is played by Teagan Rooney, while Detective McCrackle is played by Emily Brown.

Miss Nelson, the nice teacher randomly goes missing, and the children face the ugly, and mean Substitute Miss Viola Swamp. While the detectives and the kids are looking for Miss Nelson, Miss Viola Swamp decides to torture the children by teaching them arithmetic, trigonometry, geometry, long division, calculus, spelling, biology, science and state capitals!

The play will take place at the Elementary school on May 16th, 17th and 18th.

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About the Contributor

Evelyn Johnson, Reporter, Lead Videocast

Evelyn Johnson is an 8th grader at ASA, and is turning 14 in February. She has a younger sister named Penelope, and she is in 5th grade. Evelyn LOVES pink, doing videocast, and watching Barbie. She was in the Alice in Wonderland play last year, in the musical she was a sassy flower named Violet. Her favorite food is stuffing or gummies. She will probably always wear pink at school, or at least have some pink in her outfit. She is always clean and probablt takes too many showers, if that’s even a thing. She has blonde hair, blue eyes and is 5,3.