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This is a professional development session I led at my school for how to use Augusto Boal's image theater in ANY classroom! Feel free to contact me on the Facebook group or via email with any questions.

This is a professional development session I led at my school for how to use Augusto Boal's image theater in ANY classroom! Feel free to contact me on the Facebook group or via email with any questions.

Help your students organize their information about their characters Goals, Obstacles, Tactics, and expectations using this GOTE Sheet

This is the general audition form I use for main stage productions.

I have laminated these short snippets of musical theatre lyrics and posted them in my auditorium. They are there for the kids and play-goers to enjoy during downtime, but I also use them as prompts for discussion or written reflection when we have a few extra minutes in class.

This is a rubric I use for performance in an advanced acting class, but it can easily be adapted for production performance as well.

In this unit, students are separated into research groups to research an era of Theatre History. They create a presentation on their unit of history and a puppet version of Jack in the Beanstalk that demonstrates staging, costuming and structures typical of their time period.

This is an example of what I hand out to students interested in being a part of our tech crews. Feel free to use and adapt as needed.

Here are some rubric ideas for a Scenic design unit.

In this unit, students created their superhero/alter ego character with a backstory and then created a wand with special powers. They wrote the back story and built the wand. This unit works well for online learning. Good for Grade 6-8 Focus: Thinking Creatively, Elements of Design, Prop building

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...