In fact, a 2014 email provided by the ex-students’ attorneys show a parent reported concerns to performing arts chair Rick Granlund about Shewell’s “impossible problem” technique. The lawsuit states Schilling, other students and parents complained about Shewell’s behavior yet he remained employed with North Central High School. It was in the closet where Jane Doe 1 alleged Shewell touched her “just under her breasts” and massaged Jane Doe 3’s shoulders. Shewell would force students to participate in an acting exercise he called “the impossible problem” which involved taking students into a closet to reenact their greatest trauma, according to the lawsuit. In all, WRTV Investigates spoke with or received written statements from a dozen of Shewell’s former students at both schools alleging they were victims or witnesses of Shewell’s behavior. "He said that her breasts looked too big in the costume, but he said it in a way that he liked the way they looked, and I thought that was incredibly inappropriate,” Wann said. “In front of the entire cast, he made comments about her boobs being too big for the costume,” Wineland said. North Central Principal Evans Branigan, performing arts chair Rick Granlund, and choir director Michael Raunick are also named in the lawsuit.Īccording to the lawsuit, Shewell groomed female students using “unwelcome physical touching, verbal abuse, and inappropriate sexual situations” including making comments about their bodies.įormer North Central students Allie Wineland and Jamie Wann told WRTV in 2021 they witnessed Shewell make inappropriate remarks about female students' bodies. Schilling is one of four former female North Central High School students suing Washington Township schools, its leadership and Shewell. “He would say, ‘Hey jump off that platform, see if you hit your head.’" “He would heavily imply I should kill myself,” Schilling said.
Schilling said Shewell also made comments implying she should commit suicide. “He would make varying comments about how I was ugly, untalented.” "Verbally I got targeted a lot,” Schilling said. Schilling said Shewell also verbally abused her. “For some reason, Nathan Shewell decided he was going to full on body slam me with his entire body weight,” Schilling said in an interview with WRTV. She graduated from North Central High School in 2020 and did theatre under the direction of Nathan Shewell.
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