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Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Steve and Bear (both 15) Genre: Comedy

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Beaker, Brawn, Belly, Bitter, Beauty (all 17) Genre: Drama

These story theatre scripts are ready for performance. Each story includes at least one narrator, and each one can be adapted further to meet your needs.

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.

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Ron (17), Jared (16) Genre: Comedy

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Catherine (17) and Cossett (14) Genre: Comedy

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Nolan, Link, Foster, Paloma, Macy, Xandra, Zuzu, Masks (5), Gray, Quinn, Jess, Ryder, Raven, Ms Berg Genre: Dramedy

This packet includes an introduction for the teacher, and cover sheet for the student, to assign the Playwriting Part Two packet for at-home distance learning, without technology.

This packet includes an introduction for the teacher, and cover sheet for the student, to assign the Playwriting Part One packet for at-home distance learning, without technology.

Use this profile to explore the details of your masked character.

This exercise helps to demonstrate the concept of status, and how the status of a character affects how they act and how they treat others.

Use this handy chart to review Commedia stock characters and their descriptions.

One of the ways that we can learn about status is by physically playing status in the body. Use these descriptions to physicalize high/low status with your students in the Status Walks Game.

A guide to the four necessary comedic tools for playing Commedia dell’arte: status, appetite, swing, and intention/invention.

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.

This document is a collection of Theatre for Young Audience plays (TYA) written by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) writers/playwrights.

The BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) Theatre Book List offers a selection of texts (memoirs, essay collections, books, novels) written by BIPOC artists. All of the texts have a theatre focus, which makes them perfect for study in the drama classroom, to use as an independent study project, or for students who require an alternative method of instruction (AMI). Along with the list of books, attachments include Reading Questions for 5 specific texts, and a Close Reading Lesson Plan.

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.

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

Complete three of nine projects on A Midsummer Night's Dream to make a tic-tac-toe! Includes a rubric for assessment.