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Why so Emotional? A Guide for Highly Charged Scenes

A guide for teachers to help with their student actors; to find the right balance within an emotional performance, including exercises that can be explored to counteract overemotional acting.
# Teacher Guides # acting # scene work
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Scenes for Classroom Study: The Four Hags of the Apocalypse Eat Salad at their General Meeting

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Devour, Image, Purge, Starve Genre: Drama
# Scenes For Classroom Study # scene work # character development # scenes for classroom study
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Audition Advice

Four key steps to preparing for an audition are outlined in this guide that will help students prepare for auditions.
# Rehearsal and Production # acting # audition
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Becoming a Professional Actor: Where do I Start?

Tips for becoming a professional actor.
# Rehearsal and Production # acting
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Close Reading Pre-Study Exercise

Use this close reading pre-study exercise for in-depth comprehension.
# Play Analysis Guides # analysis # close reading
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Exercise: The Celebrity Gift Bag

Use this exercise to inspire creativity and quick thinking in your classroom.
# Improvisation # group activities # games
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Picture Prompt: Awkward

Students sometimes have a hard time with improv because they don’t know where to start. How do I make up lines on the spot? All they need is a little push to get them moving in the right direction. Use picture prompts.
# Improvisation # improv # acting
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Playing Status

Use these two monologues from the movie Little Voice to discuss status and changing status with your students.
# Multimedia # acting # monologue
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Rehearsal Exercises

When you’ve been working on a scene for class or within a play for a while, sometimes things get stale. You know there’s something wrong with the moment, but can’t figure out what it is or where to go. Try these rehearsal exercises to shake up scene work.
# Rehearsal and Production # rehearsal
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Scenes for Classroom Study: Hoodie

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Trilby (12) and Charlotte (12) Genre: Dramedy
# Scenes For Classroom Study # scene work # character development # scenes for classroom study
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Scenes for Classroom Study: Body Body (Scene 2)

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Gerald and Madeline (both 16) Genre: Comedy
# Scenes For Classroom Study # scene work # character development # scenes for classroom study
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Competition Do's and Don'ts

Actors who are about the same age and level tend to have the same challenges. Allison Williams has created this guide to do’s and don’t when competing with a monologue or scene.
# The Classroom # acting # competition
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Becoming a Professional Actor: Agents

Tips for student actors when looking for an agent.
# Rehearsal and Production # acting
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Becoming a Professional Actor: Acting School

Some professional actors attend an acting school after high school. Some don’t. Which is the right path? Training is never a bad thing. But there’s no one answer to the kind of training a professional actor needs.
# Rehearsal and Production # acting
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Poster: Scene Shop Safety

Use this poster for your scene shop - to keep actors and crew focused on safety.
# Technical Theatre # Quotes & Posters # technical theatre # poster
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Becoming a Professional Actor: Avoiding Scams

Young actors fall prey to scams every day. They so want to be in the business, they’ll do anything to make it happen. Unfortunately there are many people out there who know this and will also do anything to get money out of the naive actor. Read this guide to learn how to avoid scams for actors starting out.
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Becoming a Professional Actor: Headshots and Resumes

Headshots and resumes are necessary. They say what you look like and what you’ve done. If you want to become a professional actor it’s important to know the ins and outs of both. Make them simple and straightforward. No bells and whistles. This guide has all your student actors need to know.
# Rehearsal and Production # acting
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Resource Link Guide

Looking for information and searching online is too overwhelming? See if our Resource Guide has what you need.
# Teacher Guides
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Duet Characters List

Looking for character duet ideas for students to use in improvs, mimes and scene work? Over 85 pairs to choose from!
# Improvisation # acting # character development # improv
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A Midsummer Night's Dream Character Warm-up

Use this exercise in the early days of rehearsal or even as part of your audition process. It allows students to get into the physical side of a character without having to worry about hitting the “thees” and “thous.” This works well with any Shakespeare play.
# Rehearsal and Production # character development # rehearsal # audition # Shakespeare
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