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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.

An Analysis and Exercise Guide to Thorton Wilder's play "Our Town."

These tools include a costume list and plot samples and templates.

Sometimes when beginning actors approach difficult text, they play exactly what’s on the page. If it’s a sad monologue - they play the whole thing sad from start to finish. If they think the character is mad, they’ll yell all their dialogue. There is a time and place to play a moment as written. But more often than not the most powerful option is to play the opposite. A great example of this is Robert Shaw’s USS Indianapolis speech from Jaws.

Lesson Plan to accompany the Careers in Theatre videos

The study guide provides the following: pre-viewing questions, viewing questions, and post-viewing activities.

Resources to develop your classroom management skills.

The scripts in this section are sample adaptations of the fables in the previous section. How do these scripts compare to your adaptations?

This assessment tool for monologues includes a rubric, a performance task outline, and a performer checklist.

Complete three of nine projects on A Midsummer Night's Dream to make a tic-tac-toe! Includes a rubric for assessment.

Based on their analysis of an approved song, students will use their knowledge of line, shape, color, theme and mood to design and create a single abstract miniature set in a shoebox. Students will also give an oral presentation to explain and defend their design ideas.

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.

This is a template and example you can use with your student actors to ensure commitment and a clear understanding of expectations across all aspects of a high school production. There is also an example parent/guardian contract included, to ensure their understanding regarding production commitments, including attendance, participation fees, and parent volunteer opportunities. These are both designed to help you communicate with your student actors and parents in order to set your cast and families up for a successful production.

Steve Wolff

Dottie Marshall Englis

Ben Nordstrom

Use these characters in improvs and scenes

Use this list of locations for improv scenarios and scene work.

Use this actions list for improvs, scene work, and pantomimes

Use these duet scene scenarios during Improv work or warmup games.