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neeT Teen
Featured Plays

Theatrefolk Featured Play - neeT Teen

Welcome to our Featured Play Spotlight. neeT Teen by Lindsay Price is a fantastic play for your group. It's got a little bit everything - from the absurd, to movement, to audience participation, to...
Playwriting Exercise: One Moment, Many Perspectives
Classroom Exercise

Playwriting Exercise: One Moment, Many Perspectives

It’s fascinating how many people can observe the same moment and have wildly different experiences, thoughts, opinions, and memories about what happened. In this exercise, students will write four...
BIPOC Voices and Perspectives Monologue Resource
Teaching Drama

BIPOC Voices and Perspectives Monologue Resource

Diversity and representation in the drama classroom is imperative for students and teachers alike. BIPOC Voices & Perspectives: Monologue Resource is an incredible collection of original monologues...
Exercise: Outdoor Virtual Monologues
Distance Learning

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....
Monologue Exercise – Share Your Heart
Classroom Exercise

Monologue Exercise – Share Your Heart

In this multi-part exercise, students will write monologues based on the concept of an “I want/I wish” song, which is used by a character to share their heart’s desire. It is primarily a written...
Beyond the Battlefront: Letters
Featured Plays

Beyond the Battlefront: Letters

If you’re looking for an excellent and challenging Reader’s Theatre script that chronicles the correspondence between the battlefront and home, Letters by Mrs. Evelyn Merritt is one you won’t want...
How to Practice Cold Reading
Acting

How to Practice Cold Reading

Cold reading (or sight reading) is where actors read aloud from a script, scene, or text with little to no advanced preparation. It’s frequently used in auditions either instead of or in addition...
Creating Your Audition Toolkit – Monologues
Teaching Drama

Creating Your Audition Toolkit – Monologues

Finding the perfect monologue for an upcoming audition is often challenging. Students want to have the best piece possible, but may not know how to go about finding a good monologue, or what even...