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In this lesson, students will apply their knowledge by reading and watching a screenplay.

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the importance of screenplay formatting and learn some basic screenplay formatting elements: fonts, margins, and title pages.

In this lesson, students will share their scripts and provide feedback to each other. Groups will write down their feedback and make a next steps list for revision.

In this lesson, students will learn what a character zero is, how to use the body to create a character zero, how to physically commit to that body before moving, and how to make bigger choices in their character zero and in their movement.

Students will take everything they’ve learned and use it to create an original mask duo scene.

In this lesson, students will complete a line test, rehearse with specific goals, and present a preview performance.

In this lesson, we will discuss revision rehearsals, which are such an important part of the creative process. This is an opportunity for students to develop their critical thinking and apply this to their performance.

In this lesson, we will explore ways to have the class rehearse while making changes to their scripts.

In this lesson, groups will perform and reflect on their performance.

One goal of a stage manager is to prepare all of the necessary information to ensure a successful production. For example: character/scene breakdown, prop list, light cues, schedules. In this lesson, students practice creating a number of documents which every stage manager keeps in their prompt script.

In this lesson, we look at the protagonist of the screenplay with a focus on their goals, obstacles, and tactics.

In this culminating project, students are put into groups to create the stage management elements for a new “production” of Jabberwocky, the poem by Lewis Carroll.

Along with paperwork, there are other tasks a stage manager must undertake to prepare for rehearsal. Students will perform tasks that a stage manager must carry out to prepare the rehearsal space and communicate with actors/crew.

In this lesson, students will continue to learn how they can use the basic screenplay elements in an advanced way to help tell their stories with dialogue other than English in an English-language screenplay and white space.

In this lesson, students practice some of the rehearsal responsibilities of a stage manager such as keeping rehearsals running on time through proper communication, line notes, and completing a rehearsal report.

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the origins of screenplay writing and be able to answer the question “What is a screenplay?”

In this lesson, students will learn about the differences between screenplay writing for film and stage playwriting for theatre.

In this lesson students are introduced to the definition of a stage manager, learn what a stage management team may look like, and take on their first stage management tasks: reading the script and creating a props list.

The stage manager is the guiding force behind a technical rehearsal. In this lesson we will go through a number of different technical rehearsals and how a stage manager uses their preparation to keep a technical rehearsal moving.

In this lesson, students will explore the final preparations stage managers perform before heading into performance, and they go through a scheduling exercise.