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How do you teach tech, or use tech in your productions when you don’t have the expertise or the equipment? How do you make it work? How do you problem solve? Topics include Lighting, Set Design, Costumes, and Sound.

A comprehensive list of theatre terms, listed by general, personnel, types of theatre, styles of theatre, acting, ancient greek theatre, Shakespeare, improv, costume, stage management, lighting, sound, and makeup.

In this Compare and Contrast Exercise students will read a section of text in its original form, read a theatrical adaptation of the same moment, and then compare and contrast the two. What are the similarities and differences?

This handout will help you answer the question: How can you get your students to engage with each other, work with each other and include everyone?

The non-theatre student is a fact of our world. Students find their way to us by accident, or by force. How do we engage them and help them find success?

Use this monologue in your classroom for character study, monologue work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Character: Still Genre: Comedy

Use this monologue in your classroom for character study, monologue work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Character: Tyne Genre: Drama

Use this monologue in your classroom for character study, monologue work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Character: Justice Genre: Drama

Inspire your students with this poster showing how drama class develops their skills. 8.5 x 11 size.

Inspire your students with this poster showing how drama class develops their skills. 11 x 17 size.

Use this poster for your classroom - inspire students with the skills they are learning in the drama classroom.

A poster for your classroom for students to reflect on the skills they are learning in the drama classroom.

In this compare and contrast exercise students will read a text in its original form, read a theatrical adaptation of the same text, and then compare and contrast the two. What are the similarities and differences?

When there isn’t a textbook to follow or a specific set of units, how do you create a curriculum? Tips and tricks from experts in the field.

Each ensemble experience includes the title, a list of objectives you can choose from, the goal, guidelines, and instructions.

Each experience includes the title, a list of objectives you can choose from, the goal, guidelines, and instructions.

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and any other way you can imagine. Characters: True, Legit Genre: Drama

10 basics for performers to consider when evaluating their theatrical performance.

This poster series highlights the 10 Basics of Theatrical Performance and then has a set of individual posters for each basic element.

Lindsay Price talks to Keith Rollins, one of the winners of the DTA Travel Scholarship in 2017, about his experience at FX University, a hands-on, professional training event covering prosthetics application, makeup effects, mask making, sculpture, mould making, airbrush and more. See some of Keith's work and hear what he learned in this interview.