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Use this profile to explore the details of your masked character.

Use this rubric to assess group work.

Use this rubric to assess group oral presentations.

Use this rubric to assess close reading activities.

Use this rubric to assess tableau exercises and assignments.

Use this rubric to assess scene writing assignments.

Use this rubric to assess scene performance.

Use this rubric to assess student reflections.

Use this rubric to assess a point of view exercise.

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.