Steve Pearson

This is an acting unit asking students to recognize Necessary Actions (physical actions that must be performed for the scene to continue). It contains: scene analysis, performance rubric, workshop dialogues, quiz, and a monologue. It's a fun little unit. This is typically a 2 week unit: Introduction, improv, written scene analysis/identification, workshopping, partners rehearse and perform dialogue.

This is a scene analysis following the Affective Memory technique of Lee Strasberg. It asks actors to attack the scene by using Sense Memory and Emotional Memory as it applies to their character and given circumstances.

Simple Props List Sheet

This is a simple scene analysis covering props, objectives/obstacles, given circumstances and beats. It assumes you have covered these topics.

This is a nice introduction to a theatre production class or technical theater class. It asks students at the beginning of the semester to do some preliminary research careers the course will be discussing. It comes with a rubric. It also comes with an application piece (mine was for The Dining Room).

Personal Strasberg exercise utilizing Sense Memory

6 quick open dialogues in which students fill in the missing lines. Challenges students to take the same dialogues and create original and different interpretations.

This is for a technical theatre student to locate the sound cues in a script.

Simple light cue sheet

These are closed "straight" dialogues to be used for Meisner's belief in actors' "communion." They have no plot. The challenge is to see who controls the scene, who can emotionally hold the scene, who can maintain an activity on stage while engaging in the dialogue. Have one actor doing a mundane activity, but one that require focus: circling adjectives in a script, playing solitaire, separating items by color, etc.

Reflection for students for their Meisner performance in which they were not allowed to actually rehearse with their partner. Individual learning of lines (rote) and interpretation followed by a performance in which they get together and create a very organic scene - since they don't know what their partner has rehearsed.

Unit that asks students to bring childhood mentality and physicality into a scene.

This unit asks students to illustrate how powerful acting can be by utilizing the 5 senses.

This is a quick introduction to Props in the theatre.

This is a simple activity for movement and activity through the stage areas. Students in groups or solo must perform activities as they follow a random pattern of stage areas.

This is a presentation for character and scene analysis using Motivation, Actions, Attitudes, and Pre-Scene factors.

This is an improv exercise used in a Stella Adler unit. It focus on WHO is controlling the scene.

This is an acting exercise based on Lee Strasberg's Affective Memory.

This is an acting project that asks students to create a simple 3 character dialogue in which all characters speak equally.

Simple outline for an a/b dialogue for 4 actors. The intended unit is a "Childhood Unit."