Education Resources from Performing Arts Directory

Creative Directions - Offers creative drama and arts education resources links lesson plans and professional development for teachers.

Double Mirror - Research on theatre as therapeutic medium and class plans for Romeo and Juliet and the Commedia Dell'Arte.

Drama Education: A Global Perspective - Educational theatre resource for teachers and students. Contains articles classroom handouts lesson plans event calendar and a newsletter.

Drama in the Middle School - Designed for the middle school drama teacher. Includes evaluation forms projects terms games and activities grade level syllabus and lesson plans.

Drama Teacher's Resource Room - Resource centre offering lesson plans for grades 1-6 details on reference texts and teacher seminars stagecraft actitvities and links to various theatre sites.

Ideas For Teaching Drama - Tried and tested activities for educational drama.

Kenneth Taylor's Drama in Education - Educational drama site with resources and links to playwrights practitioners lesson plans arts associations UK theatres teacher education and other drama directories.

National Standards for Theatre Education - Curriculum standards for levels K-12 Theatre in US schools plus an extensive collection of lesson plans improvisation ideas drama games text books and teacher certification details for the USA and Canada.

Playsandsongs.com - Free playscripts for children and young people. Songs musicals and pantomimes.

Richard Hayes-Marshall - Research articles about acting techniques.

Spirit Productions - Educational consulting firm. Offers classroom materials and services for theatre speech and oral interpretation.

Stem Net's Drama - A useful resource for drama and theatre teachers and students containing lesson plans links to drama sites and a question and answer section.

The Virtual Drama Studio - A site which aims to offer a collection of ideas and resources for teachers of Drama and Theatre. Including lesson plans production photos advice and a forum for discussion.

Training An Actor Will Need - Highlights the need for training for success in acting/performing arts and provides a checklist for training resources to develop skills an association list and glossary.