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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 guides students to analyze and rehearse a monologue through the lens of social-emotional learning, fostering deeper emotional connection and authenticity in performance. It is structured into five parts: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, and Responsible Decision Making. Each part has activities and prompts to help students explore their characters’ inner lives and emotional journeys.

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.

This toolkit offers a full, scaffolded framework for transforming stories into theatrical works. It includes 13 sections covering story selection, adaptation, narrator styles, staging techniques (like people-as-props), space adaptation, and sample scripts for performance.