Actor Zane Camacho, right, with the young actors who play his students in Moonlight Stage Productions’ “School of Rock.” For Zane Camacho, who’s playing unemployed musician-turned-teacher Dewey Finn in Moonlight Stage Productions’ “School of Rock,” the school part of the story deservedly comes first in the title.
Playing a character defined by Jack Black in the popular 2003 film “School of Rock” is a case of art imitating life for Camacho, 24, who earned his bachelor’s degree in theater from UC San Diego and a theater teaching credential from San Diego State. In the fall, he’ll be teaching kids almost the same age as those in “School of Rock” at Guajome Park Academy in Vista.
“In the story,” Camacho said, “Dewey comes into this classroom really having no experience with kids or education and it makes me think of my first day walking into a classroom and being stunned, wondering if it was going to be ‘it’ for me. By the end of my first year student teaching I felt like Dewey at the end of the movie, how as an educator you can change the lives of these kids and the kids change your life in the process.
Besides schooling himself, Camacho said he got help from cast member Mason Trueblood, who plays one of the students in the show.
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