 In fall 2016, Fossil's theater department staged a sold-out production of Nick Dear's Frankenstein, and performed The Addams Family in spring 2017.The Addams Family won a High School Musical Theatre (Bobby G) Award for Best Leading Actor for Austin Hand as Gomez Addams, and was also nominated for Best Costume Design at the Bobby G Awards at Denver Center for the Performing Arts in 2017.The school's Improv team also ranked first in the state in the International Thespian Society's state conferences in 2015 and 2016.