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Directing

Teaching Students The Art of Directing

Cultivating Leadership, Vision, and Collaboration in Young Directors

Contributing Educator: Lori Koenig

This is an introductory unit in Directing for the Stage. The focus of the unit will be to give students an opportunity to develop artistic and leadership skills by engaging in active lessons designed to teach the basic skills that a beginning or young director would need to successfully direct a short scene.

Lesson Plans Included: 8
Materials: Scope and sequence for directing a play. Printable resources to guide students. Performance rubrics.
Grade Levels: High School

Lesson Plan Topics

  1. So, You Want to Be a Director? - Overview of the unit and the expectations (TH:Cr2.2.I.b)
  2. Reading and Studying the Script - Developing an artistic vision (TH: Cr1.1.I.c.; TH:Cr2.-I.b)
  3. Staging - Blocking and creating effective stage pictures (TH: Cr1.1.I.c.; TH:Cr2.-I.b)
  4. Pacing and Timing/Communication with the Actor - Entrances and exits, dialogue and dynamics (TH:Pr5.1.I)
  5. Guiding the actor in Character Development - Relationships and given circumstances (TH:Pr4.1.I)
  6. Towards Performance - Solidifying choices and thinking about the audience (TH:Pr4.1.I; TH:Pr5.1.I)
  7. Adding Production Elements - Technical design vision and development (TH:Pr5.1.II)
  8. The Performance of the Process - Peer feedback and discussion (TH:Pr6.1.II; TH: Re7.1.I)

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Develops student leadership

Collaborative group work

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