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Use this rubric to assess student participation.

Use this rubric to assess monologue writing.

Use this rubric to assess monologue performance.

Tips and tricks for preparing a Theatrical Resume - as well as a sample for students to start from.

This resource provides a video example of multiple tactics to spark a discussion with your students.

10 questions to use when evaluating improv performances.

In groups, students will research a well known acting teacher, give a presentation and teach an exercise.

Use these prompts as bell-work or as warm ups before a writing exercise. The focus of automatic writing is to get words on the page: good, bad and ugly.

Where does a director start with a play? Start with questions. Use this series of analytical and conceptual questions on your chosen text.

An exit slip is a question, a prompt, a rating, or a response to the day’s lesson. Here are 100 prompts for you to use in the classroom.

Rudolf Laban was a choreographer and a dancer. He defined human movement into eight efforts. Each movement has four component parts (direction, speed, weight, flow). Those four component parts have two elements to them (direct/indirect, quick/sustained, heavy/light, bound/ free). Use these “efforts” to give your students specific choices when it comes to character's physicalization. Choose an effort that defines how they move.

Have students brainstorm alternative lighting options for a scene when you can’t use a traditional lighting rig. What do they come up with? How can they experiment with existing lighting sources? (For example: flashlights) Sometimes their options will be the best options.

A guide to the four necessary comedic tools for playing Commedia dell’arte: status, appetite, swing, and intention/invention.

This is a sample six rehearsal schedule for a full length play. Use this as a model and modify according to your and your students' needs.

Use these dialogue prompts for improvisation work. Includes characters, location, want, and a first line for each prompt.

A guide to the different types of props, and a sorting activity to help students identify props by category (scenic props, hand props, set dressing).

Here is one way to set up a stage management staff at your school. You know your students the best and you know that some can handle more responsibility and some may be better suited to certain tasks. Make sure your PSM is the one who represents the team especially to the actors.

Lindsay Price's Monologue This workshop, video taken live via Periscope.

Lazzi is a comic bit or piece of comic shtick based on character. In this handout, students learn where to start with Lazzi, with examples of Commedia characters and how they perform Lazzi.

Learn the five keys that every actor needs to know when rehearsing a play - designed to help students to their best work.