Do you need to teach your students remotely, or online?
Here is a collection of drama resources for online drama classes and social distanced drama classes!
FREE-Distance Learning Drama Activities
18 pages of distance learning drama activities and with links to over 100 videos.
How to Teach Drama Online
Easy-to-follow guide to setting up your drama classes on Zoom or other virtual platforms.
Drama Warm-up Activities for Online Learning
35 drama activities that help students warm-up their bodies, voices and imaginations, and build trust within the group.
Drama Games to Teach Online
45 drama games and improv activities for online learning.
Socially Distanced Drama Warm-ups
24 drama warm-ups that can be done while social distancing!
Socially Distanced Drama Games
75+ drama games that can be played while social distancing.
Scavenger Hunts and Challenges for Drama Class
28 drama scavenger hunts and challenges for online drama classes!
More Scavenger Hunts
Four more printable scavenger hunts for online drama class!
Theatre-themed Scavenger Hunts
4 printable drama-themed scavenger hunts ready to share with your students!
Ten Interactive Murder Mysteries
Fun and easy online activity in which students play detectives and suspicious characters. Ten titles in all! (Like a murder mystery dinner party.)
Play Report Worksheets
Three printable worksheets for students to fill out after watching a stage play.
Theatre Vocabulary
Have young actors study the vocabulary, and then assign 5 random terms that they must expand upon (a paragraph each).
Character Worksheets
Have students choose a character from a play or a fairy tale and fill out a character analysis worksheet.
Practice Scenes for Two
Ask young actors to memorize one or more of the scenes and act it out with a family member or friend.
Memorization Strategies
Ask young actors to try five of the memorization strategies in this tutorial, and choose the one that worked best for him/her. Have them write a paragraph about each technique detailing their process and experience with each method, citing the reason they chose the memorization technique that they did.
Activity Pantomimes
Have young actors practice these pantomimes at home. They can also make them into a game of ‘activity charades’ with friends or family members.
Sensory Pantomimes
Have young actors practice these pantomimes at home. They can also make them into a game of ‘sensory charades’ with friends or family members.
Solo Improvisation with Obstacles
Have students practice these challenging pantomimes, paying close attention to making every movement more visible to an audience sitting some distance away.
Funny 911 Calls
Have students rehearse and perform these funny 911 calls with a friend. Ask students to record their ‘calls’ and play them back and listen for how ‘believable’ they are. Have students re-record until they are happy with the result.
Phone Conversations
Have students pick one or more conversation starter and ask them to script a one-minute call (both sides of the conversation) based on the prompt and rehearse their piece for performance.
World’s Worst Auditions
Ask students to imagine that they are at an audition, and doing the WORST job possible. Have them come up with ten different ways to deliver a bad performance, and then practice each idea and choose one to capture on video.
Poetry Director Game
Give students these simple poems, and this list of different ways of performing them (sad, angry, etc.). Have them choose the one that they feel lends the most drama to the poem, and then video it.
Experts
Have students write and rehearse a short monologue based on one ‘expert,’ in this hilarious list.
Auditioning for Film Commercials
Give students this list of tips and techniques for auditioning for film commercials. Have them rehearse and then video themselves auditioning for the commercial (scripts included).
magic product commercial
Fun, original Drama Notebook activity in which students create commercials for fictional magic products!
Clown Gags to Perform
Have students practice their physical comedy and timing skills with these fun clown gags. If possible, have students video their work.
Writing Monologues and Short Plays
Short Play Outlines
Give students these play outlines to use in concert with any prompt-based writing assignment.
Story Starters
Have students write monologues, scenes, or short plays based on these prompts.
Scene Starters
Have students use these scene starters to write scenes or short plays.
Advanced Scene Starters
Have students use these advanced scene starters to write scenes or short plays.
Bag of Titles
Assign, or have students randomly choose a title from this list and have them write a skit or short play based on the title.
The Great Debate
Ask students to choose a debate topic and write a one-minute speech that supports one side of the issue.
Headlines
Have students choose a headline and write their own funny or serious news anchor report on the topic. If possible, have students video their performance.
Advice from Dear Abby
Have students choose one letter and write a monologue or short skit that portrays the writer’s dilemma.
Imaginary Worlds
Have students choose one imaginary world and write a monologue, scene, or short play based on the imagined inhabitants of that world.
Magical Object Stories
Have students write a short play based on a magical object.
Proverbs
Have students choose one proverb and write a one-minute monologue, or short skit based on the proverb.
Chinese Proverbs
Have students choose one Chinese proverb and write a one-minute monologue, or short skit based on the proverb.
Magical Object Stories
Have students write a short play based on a magical object.
Myths
Have students create an original story about how something came to be. Ask them to write a short play with at least three characters that tells the story.
Fairy Tale Mix-up
Ask students to create an original fairy tale by mixing up the locations/characters, etc. Have them write it in script form.
Forbidden Room Story Outline
Have students write an original short story that involves a ‘forbidden room.’ Ask them to write it in script form.
Photo Prompts-Animals
Have students write an original monologue from the viewpoint of one of the animals shown in this collection.
Photo Prompts-Dwellings
Have students write an original monologue or short play based on one of the dwellings shown in this collection.
Photo Prompts-Emotions
Have students write an original monologue or short play based on one of the emotional photographs shown in this collection.
Photo Prompts-Unusual
Have students write an original monologue or short play based on one of the unusual photographs shown in this collection.
Photo Prompts-Advanced
Have students write an original monologue or short play based on one of the complex photographs shown in this collection.
Words Shakespeare Invented
Ask students to research five words Shakespeare invented and write two sentences that contain each word. Then, have students invent their own word and write a dictionary definition for their new word.
Name that Shakespeare Play
Give students the list of 37 clues to Shakespeare’s plays, and have them fill in which play goes with which clue.
Shakespeare Mystery Characters
Ask students to choose one character and write a one-page essay about that character. Or, have students fill out a character analysis on that character.
Shakespeare Death Quotes
Ask students to choose a death quote and create a one-minute monologue based on the life and experience of the character who died.
Shakespeare Soliloquies
Ask students to memorize and rehearse one of these soliloquies. If possible, have students video their performance.
Sonnets to Perform
Ask students to memorize and rehearse one of these soliloquies. If possible, have students video their performance.
Shakespeare Trivia Game/Quiz
Give students just the quiz portion of this tutorial, and have them find the answers online.
Shakespeare Character Match-up
Give students just the quiz portion of this tutorial and have them research online to find the answers.