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This warm-up is great to integrate at the beginning of a year or term, to start creating community and cooperation within a class.

This is a great movement and warm-up game, in which students need to communicate using eye contact as they move and switch spaces.

This warm-up takes students through the 3 key components of warming up the body before singing: Stretching, Breathing, and Resonator and Articulator exercises.

This resource takes common theatre games and adapts them for a social distanced classroom. You’ll find in many cases that the games are quite similar to their original counterparts. That’s intentional. We want to show how the games you know can be adjusted to fit your new circumstance. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel, or create new material for your situation.

Are you looking for a great vocal warm up that will improve their listening skills? Use rounds!

The Vowel Tree is a great warm up because it gets students used to just making sounds and working the entire range from the low end of the voice to the high end. You can find a video demonstration of The Vowel Tree in Lesson Two of the Friendly Shakespeare Course. Watch the video and try the exercise for yourself!

When there isn’t a textbook to follow or a specific set of units, how do you create a curriculum? Tips and tricks from experts in the field.

If you’ve never done a first week in the drama classroom, how do you know what to expect? What to say? What to do? Let the New Teacher Primer be your guide. We’ve divided this toolkit into high school and middle school sections. There’s definitely a specific way to approach each level. However, there will also be some overlap between the two, so don’t be afraid to read it all and adapt for your situation.

The DTA curriculum, units, and professional development courses can be used to support the IB teacher in MYP, IB-Prep Class, grade 11 or DP Year 1 as they prepare students to engage in the assessment objectives of inquiring, developing, presenting, and evaluating. The materials in the DTA are not authorized by IB; however, they will give you the ability to guide students to think creatively, actively, and critically as theatre-makers and strengthen the skills necessary for students to successfully complete the Year 2 assessment tasks. The purpose of this document is to give you IB direction, vocabulary, and extensions to refer to when reviewing DTA material. Additional assets are included that have connections to specific DTA units.

This is a sample six rehearsal schedule for a full length play. Use this as a model and modify according to your and your students' needs.

This is a guide to trying a recorded video journal to use as a reflection tool. It can be used during a rehearsal period to reflect on the process, or it can be used as a classroom tool to reflect on your teaching practice. This guide will walk you through the process and give suggestions for use with your class as well.

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Sweetie (male), Punkin (female) There are also two voices, male and female, of the couple in the next apartment.

Each experience includes the title, a list of objectives you can choose from, the goal, guidelines, and instructions.

How would you like to bring every aspect of your story to life using just your actors? This is one of the most complex forms of story theatre, but it’s also one of the most exciting. Once you understand the concept of people as props, you will understand how it is possible to stage any story, no matter how complicated, in a creative, dynamic, living way.

Lazzi is a comic bit or piece of comic shtick based on character. In this handout, students learn where to start with Lazzi, with examples of Commedia characters and how they perform Lazzi.

The overview introduces Story Theatre, and outlines the 13 sections of the toolkit.

Where does a director start with a play? Start with questions. Use this series of analytical and conceptual questions on your chosen text.

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Nate, Caroline Genre: Drama

10 traditional drama activities, adapted for the virtual/online classroom.

Instead of having students answer questions, what happens when they have to devise the questions? Give students 20 answers. Divide students into groups and have them come up with the questions that would result in the provided answers.