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1 - Pre-Production Tools

All the tools you'll need before production, from audition to casting, to start-up with your personnel.
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# The Organized Production Toolkit # production

19th Century Actors on Acting: Cushman, Booth, Jefferson

by Lindsay Price

This lesson plan looks at three 19th century actors: Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Booth, and Joseph Jefferson. All three were heralded as “stars” and were well known in their time. Students will learn some information about each, read letters in which they talk about acting, and reflect on what they’ve learned.
# Theatre History # theatre history
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The Musical Theatre Audition Portfolio Project

by Annie Dragoo

Part of the audition process is preparation. And that is not just memorizing a single monologue or one song. It’s preparing a wide variety of material for a variety of situations. By preparing an audition portfolio, students will be ready for any type of audition that may arise. The portfolio will also help students explore different genres of musical theatre.
# Musical Theatre # musical theatre # acting # audition
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Part of Playwriting Kickstart: Multi platform Unit

What is an Idea? Where do I Look?

by Lindsay Price

Lesson 1 introduces the unit and the importance of warm-up exercises. Students will learn a new definition for what an idea is and apply that definition to the first topic area.
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# Playwriting # playwriting
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Ensemble Experiences: Large Group

Each ensemble experience includes the title, a list of objectives you can choose from, the goal, guidelines, and instructions.
# The Classroom # ensemble # group activities
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03 - Tool of the Actor

The Tool of the Actor often puts the student-director in the role of the actor in order to fully understand how to direct them. The Actor's Purpose, the Audition Process, and Communication & Assisting are key tools in this section.
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# Teaching Students to Direct Toolkit
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Part of Impowerment Improv Unit

Risk-Taking

by Jennine Profeta

This lesson aims to encourage students to take risks and allay fear.
# Improvisation # improv
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Group Musical Poster

by Matthew Banaszynski

Students will read the description of a musical then break into groups to create a poster for the show. Each group will present their poster to the class and explain their representation. Note: This lesson works well if students have had a basic introduction to musical theatre.
# Group Activities # Comprehension # Musical Theatre # poster # musical theatre
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Curriculum 911

Hosted by Matt Webster and Karen Loftus

Curriculum 911 Curriculum planning help for drama teachers - lesson planning, how to integrate cross-curricular activities, resources, and more! Hosted by DTA instructors Matt Webster, Karen Loftus, and Lindsay Price. Recorded on October 6, 2015 at 8pm.
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# live PLC
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Rock your next Rehearsal

Hosted by Matt Webster & Jeremy Bishop

Your rehearsal questions and challenges addressed! Hosted by DTA instructors Matt Webster and Lindsay Price, and special guest - DTA member and teacher Jeremy Bishop. Recorded on October 20, 2015 at 8pm.
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# rehearsal # directing # live PLC
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Devising

Hosted by Lindsay Price, Matt Webster, Amy Patel, Jessica Fagerstrom

You and your students want a good story and script, even if you have to write it yourselves! But what does that look like? Who's in control? How would that work? How exactly do you devise new work with students? Join us in this PLC on Devising to learn the ins and outs of generating new works with your students.
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# devising # live PLC # popular
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The Design Process

Practical Technical Theatre

LIGHTING DESIGN LESSON 4, VIDEO 1 The first thing to do is to read the script just for enjoyment and to see how the story unfolds. See how the story affects you, and after you finish reading the play, jot down a few notes about how the play made you...
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Practical Technical Theatre

AUDIO FOR THEATRE: SOUND REINFORCEMENT LESSON 8, VIDEO 1 In this section, I would like to discuss how I typically tune a PA system when Im using an analogue mixer. The process is similar when you have a digital mixer, but a digital mixer has a lot of the tools...
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Controllable Qualities of Light

Practical Technical Theatre

LIGHTING DESIGN LESSON 2, VIDEO 1 Before we start this section, let me strongly recommend that before you begin actually working with your lighting instruments, dimmers, controllers, and all the other tools of the trade, make sure youve gone through our Lighting for Theatre program. There are many safety procedures...
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Send-Home Packet: Careers in the Arts

This packet includes an introduction for the teacher, and cover sheet for the student, to assign the Careers in the Arts packet for at-home distance learning, without technology. The attachments include separate interviews with individuals who have careers in the arts, so teachers can choose which to assign. Each attachment includes an interview to read, pre-reading questions, quiz, and reflection.
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# Send-Home Packets
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13 - Story Theatre Scripts

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.
# Story Theatre Toolkit
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Building the Ensemble

by Lindsay Price

Use this lesson plan at the beginning of the year to introduce the concept of ensemble and what it means to work together. Part One: Students participate and then reflect on exercises where they have to work together to make the exercise successful. They are given an Ensemble Expectations Handout. Part Two: Students participate and then reflect on exercises where they have to work together as an ensemble in a theatrical context. Here the exercises add elements of character and story such as creating a family portrait, tableau, group objects, one word storytelling, and choral speaking.
# Group Activities # group activities # ensemble
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Designing For A Larger Theatre Space / Lighting Richard III

Practical Technical Theatre

LIGHTING DESIGN LESSON 6, VIDEO 1 Now that weve discussed, demonstrated, analyzed, and created the different aspects of designing lights for a show, lets do this again, but in a little larger theatre. Were in Midtown St. Louis at the Grandel Theatre. Lets go inside and take a look. The...
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Part of Virtual Acting for the Camera Unit

Differences Between Stage Acting and Film Acting & Vocabulary

by Ruthie Tutterow

Students will be able to identify some of the major differences between acting for the stage and the camera. They will also be able to understand and use vocabulary that is specific to working on film sets and acting for the camera.
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# Acting # acting
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21st Century Skills Through Devising

by Allison Williams

Allison Williams leads the course: 21st Century Skills Through Devising. This course covers what devising is, why to do it, how to do it, and how your students can master the 21st Century Skills of collaborations and cooperation, critical thinking, creative thinking through devising. High school is a great place to try devising with your students. But it’s not something you want to throw at your students without any preparation. Framework is important and this course takes you through a number of exercises you can take into the classroom tomorrow to help build a place of physical safety, a place where students work at making a lot of choices instead of waiting for the perfect choice, and a place where students feel comfortable making creative choices. The material also reviews the process of putting together a show from the idea/research stage to editing, to giving feedback. Your students have what it takes to create their own material, collaborate with each other, and have a unique theatrical experience!
# devising # playwriting
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