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Getting Organized: Create a Personnel File
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Getting Organized: Create a Personnel File

If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to get organized, then this post is for you! Teachers are busy people and have a million things to remember. Remembering every student who has ever worked...
Taking on the Producer's Role: Elevator Pitch
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Taking on the Producer's Role: Elevator Pitch

The following exercise gives students the opportunity to pitch their dream show to the rest of the class. This is a great exercise to do with students after you’ve polled your class. Now that...
A Fun-Filled Shakespearean Adaptation: Cobweb Dreams
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A Fun-Filled Shakespearean Adaptation: Cobweb Dreams

It can be tough at times to get students excited about Shakespeare but that was before Cobweb Dreams by Lindsay Price. This fun-filled fantasy parallels the events of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer...
10 Ways to Publicize Your Show
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10 Ways to Publicize Your Show

So, you’ve decided to produce a play at your school this year. You’ve considered all the possibilities of shows to produce and have made a great selection. You have a vision for the show and have...
Coming to the End: Reflecting on Your Process
Directing

Coming to the End: Reflecting on Your Process

Coming to the end of a show’s run is an incredibly emotional experience. You’ve put hours and hours of work into a project that, in the end, has ceased to exist. Yes, you have the memories you’ve...
The Ensemble in Middle and High School Plays
Directing

The Ensemble in Middle and High School Plays

Ensemble Definition A unit or group of complementary parts that contributes to a single effect; all the parts of something considered together and in relation to the whole; the general or total...
A Comparison of Rehearsal Blocking Techniques
Directing

A Comparison of Rehearsal Blocking Techniques

Teachers, when working in rehearsals with your students, are you more of a planner type or a go-with-the-flow type? Do you map out all the blocking and movements in advance, or do you allow...
3 Tips: How to Stage a Show on a Small Budget
Directing

3 Tips: How to Stage a Show on a Small Budget

For many drama teachers, a dwindling production budget is an ongoing struggle. How do you put up a full production with limited funds? Beth Goodwin portrays the double whammy she works in a small...
10 Tips from Do-It-All Directors
Directing

10 Tips from Do-It-All Directors

We recorded a podcast featuring 9 teachers from all over the country, in both middle school and high school programs, to find out what makes them able to do it all when directing a play. Here are...
Theatrefolk’s Top 10: Dramas
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Theatrefolk’s Top 10: Dramas

Time for a Tfolk Top Ten Plays About…Dramas. Issue plays that don’t talk down to your students. Theatrical explorations of serious topics. Read one, read them all! Click the link and you’ll be...
Theatrefolk’s Top 10: Comedies
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Theatrefolk’s Top 10: Comedies

Time for a Tfolk Top Ten Plays for…Comedies. Read one, read them all! Click the link and you’ll be taken to the webpage for each play. There you’ll get the details and read sample pages. All the...