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How to Develop and Empower Student Directors
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How to Develop and Empower Student Directors

Have you ever had a student who’s a natural leader and has a knack for staging? Or maybe a student who isn’t comfortable in the spotlight but loves the creative process? These could be your budding...
What Type of Director Are You?
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What Type of Director Are You?

There are a variety of styles when it comes to taking the helm of a production. Which type of director are you? Which suits your students best? ‘Do as I say’ — The DictatorThis type of director has...
What Happens When The Director Gets Sick?
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What Happens When The Director Gets Sick?

This article was inspired by a situation that happened to me. Recently, I was directing a production of Disney’s Descendants: The Musical with a cast of 23 amazing students in grades 8, 9, and 10....
Lessons Learned from Directing a Virtual Show
Distance Learning

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....
Getting Ready to Direct Your First Virtual Play
Directing

Getting Ready to Direct Your First Virtual Play

One of the biggest challenges and disappointments of the current pandemic situation is the loss of live theatre production opportunities. Shows have been cancelled and postponed and we don’t have a...
Top Tips for Directing Your First Show
Directing

Top Tips for Directing Your First Show

Directing a show can be a challenge. Directing your very first show can seem overwhelming. So we asked drama teachers: What are your top tips for someone directing their first show? Material...
The Drama Classroom: Divergent Learning
Classroom Management

The Drama Classroom: Divergent Learning

There is no more class that is more divergent than the drama classroom. You have the vast number of different students who end up in your classroom, some who want to be there and some who don’t....
Theatrefolk’s Top 10: Plays for Student Directors
Featured Plays

Theatrefolk’s Top 10: Plays for Student Directors

Time for a Tfolk Top Ten Plays For….Student Directors. Do you have a student directing class? Do you have students who show a knack for taking charge and establishing vision? Then you need plays...
You Want Me to Do WHAT Onstage?
Acting

You Want Me to Do WHAT Onstage?

Students, imagine this: You’ve been cast into a show that you know is going to be awesome. You’re in the middle of rehearsal, and your director has just asked you to do something really...