Drama Workshop: Teaching Drama to Beginning Actors

Teach and learn the basics of acting with this essential guide for actors, drama teachers, and theater directors. Jump-start your drama troupe, class, or next theatrical production with this fun, hands-on interactive workshop to train your actors. Drama Workshop uses theater games and exercises that make it easy and fun to "learn by doing." No experience required.

Drama Workshop will:

• Serve as basic training for your actors. Even if you have team members with previous experience in theatre, the workshop will get everybody on the same page.
• Allow you to establish the rules of the stage and rehearsal, and define the roles of the actor and the director.
• Serve as an informal audition for your next play, musical, or film project as you observe the talent and abilities in your group.
• Promote team-building. The very experience of being together an intensive training course will accomplish much in unifying your team and building trust among the members.

Drama Workshop is the training that Chuck Neighbors has conducted for theatre companies, schools, and church drama groups in 18 countries on 6 continents over the past 45 years. The workshop has helped train hundreds of actors, from beginners just starting, to professional performers working in stage and film. It is a great resource for:

• actors
• drama teachers
• theater directors
• theatre troupes
• schools
• churches
• homeschool groups

"Every theatre director should have this valuable guide on their bookshelf." - John Lee Welton, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus Of Theatre, Carson-Newman University, Jefferson City, Tennessee

Note: this book is an updated version of Drama Now! (Lillenas Publishing 2005).