New Drama Lessons and Play Scripts

Printable Wall Art-Inspirational Quotes
Brighten your classroom with these ten graphics with inspirational quotes.

Printable Wall Art-The Actor’s Toolbox
6 printable mini-posters featuring elements of The Actor’s Toolbox: Voice, Body, Imagination, Concentration, and Cooperation.

How to Choose a Play Checklist
Use this 10-point checklist to choose the perfect play.

Puppetry PowerPoint
Use this PowerPoint and helpful transcript to teach your students about the seven most popular kinds of puppets.

Puppetry PowerPoint Transcript
Use this PowerPoint transcript with the Puppetry PowerPoint to teach your students about the seven most popular kinds of puppets.

SEL Puppet Plays-Kindness
3 puppet plays. 4-10 characters. Each play is about 3 minutes long and tied to the SEL (Social Emotional Learning) theme of kindness.

SEL Puppet Plays-Wellness
3 puppet plays. 4-10 characters. Each play is about 3 minutes long and tied to the SEL (Social Emotional Learning) theme of Wellness.

SEL Puppet Plays-Be Strong
3 puppet plays. 3-8 characters. Each play is about 3 minutes long and tied to the SEL (Social Emotional Learning) theme of being strong.

More Story Drawing Worksheets
The playful drawings from the Drama Notebook website will inspire students to write short scenes.

Speed Dating Drama Lesson
Hilarious improv game similar to “Party Quirks” or “The Dating Game” but everyone plays at the same time.

Spanish – List of Objects
Three different lists of props and objects in Spanish and seven ways to use them.

Spanish – List of Occupations
Here are two lists of occupations or jobs in Spanish: regular and advanced—over one hundred occupations in all.

Drama Coloring Sheets-Vocabulary
11 coloring pages to learn drama vocabulary. Features original artwork from Drama Notebook.

Celebrating Malala Day
8-9 characters and approximately 7 minutes long. A short play about Malala Yousafzai and other female champions of justice and education.

The Story of Juneteenth
8-10 characters and approximately 7 minutes long. Students learn about Juneteenth, an important day in American history when they are surprised by famous visitors from the past.

Talent Show Troubles
15+ characters, approximately 15 minutes long. It’s the day of the big talent show, but Kai has no special skill to perform. When things start to go wrong, Kai saves the day. This play about kindness and cooperation is perfect for elementary students.

More Talking Objects
Students take on the characteristics of inanimate objects to improvise a scene.

Introduction to Props PowerPoint
Use this PowerPoint and helpful transcript to teach your students about the props for theatre productions and the job of a prop designer. Great for elementary through high school.

Introduction to Props PowerPoint Transcript
Use this transcript as a guide for the Intro to Props PowerPoint.

Story Drawing Worksheets
The playful drawings from the Drama Notebook website will inspire students to write short scenes.

SPANISH – Cormorant and Rainbow Snake
Short script based on a Venezuelan myth. Parts for 15, flexible cast. Ages 6-10. Includes activities and more! (3 credits.)

SPANISH-Places and Environments
Fantastic list of places and environments to use with improv games or to teach students how to create the illusion of space using movement and imagination. Almost 100 places on three printable pages.

Stage Directions Printables
Brighten your classroom with these colorful graphics explaining theatre stage directions.

Superhero News Report
This just in! A super fun drama lesson where students create their own news program about superheroes and supervillains. Perfect for ages 10-18.

Earth Day Adventure
8-9 Characters, approximately 5 minutes long. A group of children learn about Earth Day. Perfect for elementary students and assemblies.

Shakespeare’s Birthday Bash
9-10 characters, Approximately 7 minutes long. A group of students are surprised when Shakespeare appears in their classroom. A great choice for elementary students learning about Shakespeare.

Shoe Puppets
Fun puppetry lesson using student’s own shoes.

Simple Sock Puppets
Easy tutorial for making sock puppets with students of all ages. A low-stress and creative project that can be completed in one class period.

Crazy Life of Cuy
5-6 characters, flexible casting, approximately 5 minutes long. Cuy, the guinea pig, is a trickster who must escape the fox. This short folktale play from the Andes Mountains is great fun for elementary students. Features a few words in Spanish.

Introduction to Shakespeare PowerPoint
Use this PowerPoint and helpful transcript as you introduce your students to the world and works of Shakespeare.

Introduction to Shakespeare PowerPoint Transcript
Use this transcript with the Intro to Shakespeare PowerPoint as you introduce your students to the world and works of William Shakespeare.

The Wizard of Oz in 30 Minutes
12+ characters, flexible casting., Approximately 30 minutes long. Abridged play script based on the classic story of The Wizard of Oz. Perfect for children and teens.

How to Make a Production Book
If you are directing a play, this amazing guide will help you build and organize your production notebook. It is perfect for both new and experienced directors and stage managers.

The Sweet History of Valentine’s Day
4 characters and approximately 5 minutes long. Candy characters come to life and share the sweet history of Valentine’s Day. This is a fun play for elementary students to perform in class or at an assembly.

Sittin’ in a Tree
6-23 characters. Approximately 45 minutes long. Perform the entire play or explore individual monologues and scenes.

Spanish – 20 Short Practice Scenes
Twenty, one-page scenes that can be acted out immediately!

Spanish – Jaguar and Deer
5+ characters; Flexible cast. 3 pages in length. Approximately 1-5 minutes running time. A South American folk tale adapted by Janea Dahl.

Spanish – Adjectives and Adverbs
Four printable pages of adjectives and adverbs for drama class categorized by ‘easy’ and ‘difficult.’ Includes five drama games to use with the lists.

How to Make Your Mystery Play Interactive
Tips for making any mystery play more interactive.

Perstephanie Va Al Inframundo
7 personajes. Fundición flexible. 24 páginas de extensión. Aproximadamente 30 minutos de duración. Una obra cómica griega de la dramaturga Elizabeth Rapoza.

Poisoned in the Garden Script
17 characters, flexible casting. Approximately 45 minutes long. A comical and colorful mystery based on the interactive mystery of the same name. A wealthy old woman is found poisoned in her garden. There are lots of clues and suspects, but only one real murderer.

Rumpelstiltskin: The Last Straw
13-18 characters, 45 minutes long. This Rumpelstiltskin adaptation is filled with magical fantasy and rich, comedic language. It stays true to the Grimm fairy tale and introduces a cast of supporting characters to reimagine a way for Miller’s daughter to overcome the challenges before her with the agency.

The Missing Masterpiece
6-20+ characters, 15 minutes long. A piece of art is stolen during a fancy fundraiser at the art museum.

Impressions
Flexible casting, 10-36 characters, approximately 30 minutes running time. Perfect for middle and high school. Impressions is a vignette play comprised of several scenes that explore the many meanings of the word “impressions.”

Oh, Demetrius
3 characters, including 2 black students. Approximately 15 minutes long. This play for middle and high school students explores the idea of integrity. Charmaine has a crush on Demetrius and willingly does his homework for him. In the end, Charmaine takes back her power, and Demetrius owns his mistakes as well. Oh, Demetrius also provides a lesson in cultural history and the importance of knowing the sacrifices made by others for the sake of justice. The end of this play discusses great black people in history.
Themes: Integrity, Honesty.

The Fight Before Christmas
10-14 characters, approximately 10 minutes long. Coal, the Christmas elf, becomes a villain and attempts to ruin the holiday. Wordplay makes this fun for both children and teens to perform.

With Vigor
6+ characters, approximately 60 minutes long. With Vigor is a fast-paced, interactive comedy that employs audience participation, improv, and physical comedy to enthrall the audience in a whirlwind of fun. The play opens with a community theatre rehearsing a new play. The director, who also happens to be the playwright, takes the project very seriously, but the cast and crew have a lot of work to do. Excellent for teens and community theatres.

Elections Drama Lesson
Fun drama lesson to learn about elections and voting. Perfect for elementary students ages 8-12.

Costume Design Templates
13 different templates of different body types, genders, abilities, and ages. Use this as a blank canvas upon which students sketch their costume design ideas.

Dog Barking in the Distance
6 characters, gender flexible, approximately 15 minutes long. Scary and suspenseful play about teens who are lost in the woods. Fun for readers theatre, radio drama, classroom study or live performance.

Feedback Framework
This simple yet powerful framework helps students learn to give and receive feedback in drama class. This tool fosters student voice, vulnerability, and risk-taking. It can be applied to all K-12 drama classrooms.

Rehearsal Checklists
Keep track of all the scenes you’ve worked on from blocking through tech week. Whether you are rehearsing a simple play with kids, or a full-length musical, these checklists are a lifesaver.

Lista de Animales
Un listado de 50 animales diferentes para utilizar en tu clase de arte dramático. Listos para imprimir, cortar y poner dentro de un sombrero.

Lista de Colores
Lista imprimible de 39 colores y seis maneras de utilizarlos en clase de arte dramático.

Lista de Emociones
Lista de 37 emociones diferentes para la clase de arte dramático. Listas para imprimir y poner dentro de un sombrero para usar en situaciones o juegos de improvisación.

Escenas de Emociones Para Lectores Principiantes
Diez escenas cortas acerca de emociones para lectores principiantes o aprendices de Inglés. Cada guión es de una página y contiene una indicación para discusión al final. El vocabulario reconocible a la vista y la rima hacen que las escenas sean fáciles y divertidas de leer.

Escenas Divertidas y De Amistad Para Lectores Principiantes
Diez escenas cortas acerca de emociones para lectores principiantes o aprendices de Inglés. Cada guión es de una página y contiene una indicación para discusión al final. El vocabulario reconocible a la vista y la rima hacen que las escenas sean fáciles y divertidas de leer.

Guion De La Mariposa y Actividades
Más de 20 personajes pero puede ser flexible. Incluye notas de producción, preguntas de discusión y actividades de extensión. (3 créditos.)

Sword Fighting for the Stage
Introduction to sword fighting video series and printable worksheets.

Quiz-Journey Through the Ages in Costume
Use this quiz to assess your students’ knowledge after sharing the History of Costume Design PowerPoint and Teacher Transcript.

Quiz-People of the Theatre
Use this quiz to assess your students’ knowledge after sharing the People of the Theatre PowerPoint and Teacher Transcript. Great for middle and high school students.

Quiz-Theatre Spaces
Use this quiz to assess your students’ knowledge of theatre spaces and basic stage vocabulary. Use it with the Theatre Spaces PowerPoint and Teacher Transcript. Great for middle and high school students.

Printable Classroom Art-Theatre Rules
Help everyone follow theatre rules with these colorful posters.

Printable Classroom Art-Basic Theatre Vocabulary
Brighten your classroom with these ten graphics that define common terms used in theatre.

Turning Stories into Radio Dramas
Radio dramas are a fun, low-pressure way to share stories and practice reading aloud. This lesson by Ruth Giordano provides ideas for turning a story you love into a radio drama or reader’s theatre performance.

Costume Plot Template
Keep track of all the costumes in your play with this easy-to-use template.

Drama Activities for Small Classes
Six pages of warm-ups and activities, plus links to other titles on Drama Notebook that work with smaller groups. Great for older elementary through high school.

Defective Heroes Anonymous
10 characters, flexible casting. Approximately 15 minutes long. Sometimes even superheroes need a support group.

Picture Girl
7 characters. Approximately 30 minutes long. Historical drama based on the true story of a young girl whose drawing spared her family at Ellis Island in 1924.

Peter Pan
27 roles, flexible casting, approximately 30 minutes long. An abridged version of Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie.

Accordian to Sean
2 characters, spouses. Approximately 10 minutes long. Sean O’Malley wishes to right the wrongs of his childhood and believes that learning to play the accordion is just the way to do that.

Memory Junk
2 characters, spouses. Approximately 10 minutes long. Heart warming comedy about letting go of “things” as we get older.

War and Pizza
15+ Characters, flexible casting. Approximately 40 minutes long. A young man tries to help save the family ranch but is roped into his uncle’s illegal schemes. Will pizza be the key to success? Historical fiction, drama, comedy, and mystery, all served up in one play.

The Comic Book Play
15 characters, approximately 40 minutes running time. Aspiring comic book writers bring their characters to life in this fun and female-driven play for teens.

Snow White and the Magic Go Go Boots
12+ characters, flexible casting. Approximately 40 minutes long. Comedy script loosely based on Snow White. Includes songs from the public domain and audience participation.

Chaplin in Wonderland
15+ characters, flexible casting. Approximately 10 minutes long. Charlie Chaplin takes a trip down the rabbit hole to Wonderland. A fast-paced comedy that incorporates pantomime.

No Princesses Need Apply
8 characters, flexible casting. Approximately 10 minutes long.

The Queen’s Masquerade
12+ characters, approximately 20 minutes long. Original fairytale script about a queen and her surprise birthday gift of colorful songbirds.

Admission Impossible
5 Characters (plus one offstage voice), approximately 15 minutes running time. This comedy play script features various contaminants who are plotting ways to evade the water treatment process (to no avail).

The Scarecrow’s Christmas
7+ Characters, 10-minute running time. A short Christmas play about a kind girl, a lonely scarecrow, and Santa’s proposal for the scarecrow to come to the North Pole! Perfect for elementary, middle school, or community groups. Royalty-free for educational use.

The Enchanted Garden
10-11 characters, flexible casting, approximately 10 minutes long. A young girl wakes up in an enchanted garden. Is it real, or is it her imagination?

The Crowded House
16-20 roles, flexible casting, approximately 10 minutes long. A Yiddish Folktale about a family who thinks their home is too small for them.

Customer Service
Hilarious improv game in which one player is a customer and the other is a store clerk.

Silly Skits for Kids
Your students will love these ten short and silly skits. They are perfect for class, camp, and assemblies. Or weave them together to make a fun performance. Perfect for elementary and middle school.

Animal Skits for Kids
Your students will love these short and funny animal skits. Use them in class, camp, assemblies, or weave them together to make a fun performance. 12 skits perfect for elementary and middle school.

Status Drama Lesson
8 pages. In theatre, status refers to the power difference in the relationship between characters. This drama lesson includes ten drama games to teach status along with prompts for improvising scenes where status changes.

The Great Baking Play
6-31 characters, flexible casting, approximately 30 minutes long. 13 scenes all set in a kitchen.

Cake Prop Design Lesson
In this fun and easy lesson, students will create their own pretend sponge cake slices. Using a variety of craft supplies and basic kitchen sponges, they will learn about making props for the stage. Fun for elementary through high school.

Character Monologue Worksheets
The playful character drawings from the Drama Notebook website will inspire students to write their own monologues.

More Character Monologue Worksheets
The playful character drawings from the Drama Notebook website will inspire students to write their own monologues.

Character Scene Worksheets
The playful character drawings from the Drama Notebook website will inspire students to write short scenes.

More Character Scene Worksheets
The playful character drawings from the Drama Notebook website will inspire students to write short scenes.

30 More Scene Starters for Younger Students
30 more playful prompts to use as improv starters or inspiration for writing short scenes and monologues with younger students (elementary).

30 More Scene Starters for Older Students
30 more playful prompts to use as improv starters or inspiration for writing short scenes and monologues with older students (ages 11 and up).

Go Go Green Machine
6 characters, 10-15 minutes long. Students encounter a supervillain while participating in Earth Day cleanup. Perfect for elementary students.

Stella the Umbrella
9+ characters, flexible casting. Approximately 15 minutes long. When Stella the Umbrella begins changing colors for no apparent reason, her friend Uta helps her stand up to bullies and discover her true colors. This play addresses themes of diversity, bullying, acceptance, cliques, forgiveness, and friendship, all in a whimsical setting with unique and endearing characters.

Scenes from Summer Camp
8 characters, approximately 10 minutes long. Comedy play about girls at summer camp who are stuck in their cabin because of the rain.

List of Tactics
Printable list of 60 tactics and instructions for three drama games to explore objectives and tactics. Great for middle, and high school grades.

Superhero Scenes for Pairs
These 11 short scenes about superheroes are perfect for elementary and middle school. Includes 10 scenes for pairs and one scene for three people. Also includes ideas for using the scripts and discussion questions.

Alice in Wonderland Experience
10+ characters. 20-40 minutes. A step-by-step guide to help you create your own immersive, promenade-style Alice in Wonderland performance piece. 25 pages filled with creative ideas, scenes, and practical suggestions. Great for elementary through high school. Royalty-free for educational use.

Drama Bingo
Fun and easy classroom game that can help students learn drama vocabulary. 30 unique bingo cards filled with words used in the theatre.

Page to the Stage
In this community-building drama project, elementary students write short plays to be performed by high school students. Includes instructions for the process from beginning to end.

Rehearsal Strategies
Do you ever wonder how to keep everyone occupied at rehearsal? This resource is full of strategies to keep kids engaged so you can focus on directing.

How to Write Bios
Helpful guide and templates for creating actor bios to use in your theatre program.

More Children’s Books to Act Out
List of 30 more children’s books to use in drama class. 13 pages long. Includes extra information on each title!

How to Host an Improv Show
Everything you need to put together a fun and easy improv performance with your students!

The Bravest Badger
12+ characters, 5 minutes running time. It’s no wonder the animals on Apple Tree Farm are suspicious of this new creature. None of them have ever met a badger before. Rhyming and narration make this a perfect choice for early elementary. Royalty-free for educational use.

How to Make Drama Class Agreements
Easy, helpful guide to making a list of rules for your drama class!

Bravo Tags
Awarding Bravo Tags promotes positive behavior and lets drama students show off their great choices and hard work! Just print, cut, and pass them out. Students can collect and display them in many ways.

Practice Scenes for Three Young Actors
Short scenes for three actors. Best suited for elementary and middle school.

Practice Scenes for Three Teenage Actors
Short scenes for three actors. Best suited for ages 12-18.

More Mad Libs Scenes
Ten funny scenes with five suggestions for how to use them. Great for elementary through high school.