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This resource offers a comprehensive collection of resources to support every stage of the rehearsal process, from initial planning to final run-throughs. It includes guides for launching rehearsals, warmups, strategies to keep actors engaged, character development exercises, approaches for classical and comedic texts, handling rehearsal challenges, and structuring final rehearsals.

This project takes a scaffolded approach to creating the Empathetic Classroom. It guides students through five “links” of empathy: first with themselves, then others, then characters, then the audience/world, and finally into a culminating theatrical presentation. Along the way, it provides resources like reflection prompts, team-building games, safe-space guidelines, and support for executing the project in a classroom context.

This toolkit breaks down the directing process into discrete “tools” - such as Tool of Self, Tool of the Script, Tool of Rehearsal, Tool of Space, Tool of Design, and Tool of Self-Evaluation - each accompanied by exercises, handouts, assignments, and reflection prompts. It guides student-directors through script analysis, rehearsal planning, staging, communication with actors and designers, and self-evaluation of their work.