List of Contributions

Good Friends, I received excellent feedback from my students today regarding my transitions. Long story short - I don't lead very effective transitions between my warmup activity and my main lesson or rehearsal. Today I lead them through a deep, insightful warm-up. Typically, we would have sat in ...

George, This is genius-level stuff! I'm on a similar wavelength when it comes to incorporating film and television scripts for study and design. When I was initially hired, I was just drama, then last year I was English (never taught before), drama, and Stagecraft (never taught before). The gravity ...

Hi Julie! Thank you so much for this resource. I signed up immediately and just got approved. Sounds like you and I have a similar student body in our classroom. Those who elected Stagecraft want blueprints, tools, and time to build (and that's not happening) - the rest are there and turning in semi-inspired ...

Tracie, These are wonderful ideas and I'm so proud/happy for your success with them. Thank you for igniting my imagination. I had become trapped in my thinking and have been losing sleep many nights trying to create fresh, inventive, and engaging assignments. I can't tell you how much I appreciate ...

Crit, I'm located in California. We were going to be hybrid and then two weeks before school started we switched to 100% remote, which was a quick pivot and pretty unpleasant in terms of building a curriculum and then re-building a curriculum. To compensate, I looked into DTA's 'Stagecraft without ...

Friends, I'm trying to implement my Stagecraft curriculum remotely and by and large the results have been eh.  At my school, Stagecraft class is a mix of students. I have 41 in my class. 1/4 want to be scenic painters, 1/4 just want to build, and 1/2 of the student body were basically dumped on me ...