Drama Teacher Learning Centre

You’ve picked your next play or musical - hooray! The script is chosen, the dates are set, and your students can’t wait to hear what it is. Now comes the next big step: How do you share the news in...

…A time machine, you say? Interesting. If you gave me the chance to go back and talk to a younger version of myself as a teacher, what would I say? A couple of things come to mind… First and...

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...

TranscriptHi. This is Lindsay Price. I am at the Arizona State Thespian Festival and this is Spread the Love. This week we are going to talk about Stroke Static. Stroke Static is a very unique...

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...

Welcome to our video series, Calling All Theatre Teachers! In this series we’re going to answer questions that drama teachers have about stepping into a theatre program. QUESTION: How do I maintain...

If you want writing to become a tangible act, practice it with consistency. Consistency does not mean volume – there’s no need to start with a 400 page project. That will weaken your resolve almost...

This week we spread the love for Skid Marks – A Play About Driving by Lindsay Price. Recorded live in a large confusing parking lot.

I was teaching at a private school last week during their playwriting unit. One of their pre-writing exercises was to create an “Inspiration File” the point of which was to find, create, give...

Lindsay and Craig spread the love for Apostrophe’s by Bradley Hayward.

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...

Classroom management looks a little different in the drama room than in other classes. However, laying a solid foundation for discipline is imperative for you and your students so you can all work...

Collaboration games are a great go-to exercise throughout the entire school year. At the start of the school year, they work for ‘get to know you’, and warm up activities. Later on in the school...

This week on Spread the Love, Lindsay and Craig talk about The Robbed Reindeer, a Christmas play by Lindsay Price.

Lindsay and Craig spread the love for Have You Heard? by Krista Boehnert.

Lindsay and Craig spread the love for Prom Night by Sylvia Davenport-Veith.

Use this exercise for the first week of class, especially if you have a group of students who don’t know each other very well. The point of the game is to get students to not just talk to each...

Here’s the deal. There are many words out there that mean a phrase, their definition is practically a sentence. I love those words, it’s so cool to take one word and have it mean so much. For...