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Teaching Drama

Resource: Tons of Big, Huge, and Giant Prompts!

Sometimes you just need a tiny prompt to serve your purpose, but other times you need a whole bunch of big, huge, and GIANT prompts! To get your students thinking big, we’ve got a gigantic list of...
Teaching Drama

Tips to Help Students Raise the Stakes in Drama Class

“Bigger! Louder! More, more, more!” We always want our drama students to push themselves to be larger than life onstage and in class. How can we help our students raise the stakes and bring more...
Teaching Drama

Resource: Tons of Tiny Prompts

Good things come in small packages, and with that, we’ve got a big collection of tiny prompts to get your students thinking big about small things. If you’d like even more prompts, you can find 50...
Teaching Drama

Small Actions, Big Results

Students often come to drama class with big goals: Get the lead in the show! Become a performing star! And while some students might make great steps towards achieving those big goals, most don’t...
Teaching Drama

The Rehearsal Companion

You’ve chosen the play, paid the royalties, done the script analysis, held your auditions, and cast the show. Tomorrow is the first rehearsal. Are you ready? Really ready? The Rehearsal Companion...
Teaching Drama

The Audition Toolkit

Auditions require more than talent. Even the most talented students need confidence, communication, active listening, flexibility, a strong work ethic, and proper preparation. The Audition Toolkit...
Teaching Drama

How to Make Good Rehearsal Notes, For Student Actors

As a director, I cannot stress enough to my students how frustrating it is to have to give the same note over and over during rehearsals. It feels like I’m not being listened to, and it wastes...
Teaching Drama

10 Ways to Divide Your Students Into Groups

We do TONS of group work in drama class, and it’s important for students to have the opportunity to work with a variety of their peers. Working with different classmates allows students to get to...
Teaching Drama

Back to School Affirmations for Teachers

It’s a new school year and in the hustle and bustle of getting classrooms organized, learning students’ names, and completing all the start-of-term tasks, please take a moment to pause, breathe,...
Acting

Acting the Issue Play

Want to give your students some fantastic acting material that they can really sink their dramatic chops into? Consider doing an issue play for your next production. Issue plays explore problems...
Teaching Drama

Impowerment Improv

Impowerment Improv is not your typical improv resource. Improv Instructor Jennine Profeta will teach you how to validate improv to your administrators as you help students to take risks, embrace...
Teaching Drama

An Introduction to Consent in the Drama Classroom

Consent can be a touchy subject in the classroom. Many students immediately think that consent refers to intimacy, such as embraces or stage kisses. While that is an important part of consent in...
Teaching Drama

What Do You Do When…

The rehearsal process is often exciting and often frustrating. The frustrations are the worst when they have nothing to do with the play itself. What do you do when… The cast doesn’t get alongIt’s...
Teaching Drama

Resource: Tons of Animal-Related Prompts!

We’ve got another prompt collection here for you! These prompts are all animal-related — thinking about unusual animals, moving like animals, speaking like animals, encountering animals, and more!...
Teaching Drama

The Drama Classroom Companion: Volume 2

Loved the original Drama Classroom Companion? The Drama Classroom Companion: Volume 2 has more articles, exercises, reflections and rubrics that focus on reaching the 21st century teen using 21st...