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Here is a play analysis assignment that encourages students to deepen their thinking within each of the four levels of questions. You can use it for all theatre students with simple edits. Level One may be enough for beginners, for example.

Here are the handouts that are referenced in my previously shared Stage Makeup Unit lessons.

Here is a theatre safety test all my Technical Theatre students must pass at 90% or better in order to fully participate in class.

Having to teach in December cramping your holiday movie watching time? Well, not if you have your classes create their own holiday style shows. These lessons will result in heartfelt and hilarious final performances and posters and are a great way to teach about tropes and acting styles while making sure you survive this season and make it to winter break...

This is a very simple rubric, but it shows students their target, and gives them a tangible goal.

This is a lesson at the end of a unit on Breath and Voice. Students will practice different vocal characteristics by performing a neutral scene, then apply those skills to creating a radio commercial. A rubric for the radio commercial assignment can be found in the Assessment section of the Member Share Files.

This is a lesson for a Breath and Voice unit that includes a bit of vocal anatomy.

At the end of my Actor Movement Unit students create a Silent Movie Scene as their performance assessment.

This is a lesson for a beginning theatre class on basic vocabulary.

I created these posters using Canva. Enjoy!

I created a few posters using lines/quotes from musicals. I made color engineer prints at 24"x36" for display, but they can also be printed on regular size paper. Enjoy!

this is one BIG file of classroom posters. i had it printed as an engineer print (super thrifty!!) but you could save individual ones you like (i think it you go to print one, say you are only printing it as the ONE PAGE you like and then hit "save as PDF" that should work. that is how it works on my mac.) enjoy!!!

A meme/gif based short intro to multiple acting teachers. Used as a starting point for the Acting Teachers Research Project.

This is a quick worksheet for drawing movements that your face would make to convey 10 different expressions. We watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrgNKGjSyxA for a tutorial and they draw arrows to show how the face changes for each. Finally, they take 10 selfies, one for each expression, and create a collage to turn in. Great beginning of the year Acting assignment!

These are designed as enrichment activities for non-grading. But you can easily grade these, and of course adapt to your specific group. I will be creating by the week, as needed. This is "Week 1".

These are designed as enrichment activities for non-grading. But you can easily grade these, and of course adapt to your specific group. I will be creating by the week, as needed. This is "Week 1".

These are designed as enrichment activities for non-grading. But you can easily grade these, and of course adapt to your specific group. I will be creating by the week, as needed. This is "Week 1".

These are designed as enrichment activities for non-grading. But you can easily grade these, and of course adapt to your specific group. I will be creating by the week, as needed. This is "Week 1". (This course is a movement course that explores ensemble and devising)

For printing or putting into Google Classroom.

A grid of options for students during self-isolation. Each week, I will add a page of options. (The most recent grid of options will be at the top of the document.)