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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.

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.

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).

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

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

If you want students to get comfortable with Shakespeare’s language, use insults. The objective of this exercise is to get students to use their voice and body as they practice words outside their natural normal vocabulary. To understand the statement: “Words do not mean what they mean, words mean what you intend them to mean.”

This is a great movement and warm-up game, in which students need to communicate using eye contact as they move and switch spaces.

A printable poster for your classroom - with some key reminders of the role of the audience.

A printable poster for your classroom or theatre - a few simple rules for theatre audience etiquette!

Use this exercise with the Shakespeare you are studying (or the included monologue) to answer the question: how can punctuation give clues an actor can use to help act the scene?

This exercise encourages students to examine the language of a scene for clues on character action. Shakespeare often tells actors exactly what to “do.”

This exercise helps students think about how their characters sound.

Use these first lines prompts (list of 35) for monologue and scene work.

What is a 24 hour playwriting festival? Student playwrights gather together and write for 12 hours. (eg: 8pm to 8am) Student directors and actors then cast, stage, rehearse and perform during the next 12 hours (8am to 8pm). Everything from concept to production takes place within 24 hours. Follow the step by step outline in the resource.

Use this list to inspire your students to use higher order vs. lower order thinking words.

This page is designed to be cut into four so each student has a small rubric to follow, for their participation and positive contribution to rehearsals.

This handout is designed for an evaluator to assess rehearsal participation and positive contribution. Two rubrics per page.