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Distance Learning

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Character Study: Self-Awareness
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Character Study: Self-Awareness

The following exercise helps students learn self-awareness (which is one of the categories of social and emotional learning) and apply it by analyzing characters in a play that they are currently...
Improv Game: Combining Skills
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Improv Game: Combining Skills

This fun improv game challenges students to work together and think quickly on their feet to create a scene that solves a problem, using skills possessed by characters with different occupations....
Improv Game: Imposter
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Improv Game: Imposter

The following improvisation game challenges students to stay in character, think on their feet, keep the scene going, and react to each other. They’re also likely going to laugh, because one of the...
Exercise: Outdoor Virtual Monologues
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Exercise: Outdoor Virtual Monologues

The following distance learning exercise challenges students to take their performances outdoors. Students will select a monologue, perform and film it outdoors, and submit it for evaluation....
Lessons Learned from Directing a Virtual Show
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Lessons Learned from Directing a Virtual Show

If you miss doing shows with your students, you’re not alone. We’re all missing live theatre! Luckily, there are playwrights writing virtual plays for online platforms that you can do right now....
Make the Weather Come Alive Onstage and Onscreen
Classroom Exercise

Make the Weather Come Alive Onstage and Onscreen

Unless you have perfect timing, when you’re producing a show with your students, you will be performing it at a different time of year than what the show is set in. For example, you might be...
Make Your Own Mini Musical Revue
Classroom Exercise

Make Your Own Mini Musical Revue

First things first: what is a musical revue? A musical revue is a style of musical theatre that combines singing, dancing, music, and sketches. The material included in the revue focuses on a...
Playwriting Exercise: Clothing Prompt
Classroom Exercise

Playwriting Exercise: Clothing Prompt

The following exercise is flexible. It can be completed via distance learning or live in class. If students are completing this exercise online, they do not need to turn on their cameras or...
Warm-Up Game: Show and Tell
Classroom Exercise

Warm-Up Game: Show and Tell

The following warm-up game uses found objects and allows students to work on their improvisation, storytelling, and character building skills. Take the well-known elementary school activity — show...
Drama Fun & Games: Technology Bingo
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Drama Fun & Games: Technology Bingo

Distance learning using video conferencing software is full of surprises and challenges. Some days, connecting and running your class goes off without a hitch. Other days, it seems like anything...