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Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Shelley and Ben (both 17) Genre: Dramedy

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Jo, May, Helen. (all 16) Genre: Drama

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Keith (17) and Cameron (16) Genre: Drama

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Nolan, Link, Foster, Paloma, Macy, Xandra, Zuzu, Masks (5), Gray, Quinn, Jess, Ryder, Raven, Ms Berg Genre: Dramedy

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Lomov, Natalya Stepanova Genre: Comedy

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Officer Emma, Connie Genre: Comedy

Use this scene in your classroom for character study, scene work, substitute teachers, performance, Individual Event competitions, and however else you can imagine. Characters: Vices: Envy, Sloth, and Greed. Virtues: Kindness, Generosity, and Zeal

Use these exercises when you want to get students up on their feet and moving around the room before your first activity.

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.

How do you direct something with no plot, nonsense dialogue and uninformative characters? How do you approach the Absurd play? How do you help students approach the Absurd play? This guide comes complete with exercises to help with Theatre of the Absurd plays.

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.

Use this poster for your scene shop - to keep actors and crew focused on safety.

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).

A one-sheet to help students understand the difference between a prop and a costume piece.

A backstage reminder for student actors - printable poster.

A printable poster for backstage reminders.

If you’ve ever had the perfect idea for a drama assessment but didn’t know where to start, use this toolkit to help you create assessments specifically for the drama classroom.

She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen is a play that comes up time and time again in our drama class communities. To that end, we wanted to provide questions for reading the play in the classroom. • The Reading Questions provide pre- and post-reading questions for the play as well as questions throughout. • The Close-Reading Questions provide in-depth text-dependent questions for one scene of the play.

A printable poster for the drama classroom or backstage.

A printable poster to remind students to do a pre-check.