Category Archives: Teaching Drama
Beat by Beat Response to COVID-19
Theatre is about community. Beat by Beat’s role has always been to enrich the lives...
Teaching Improv: How do I help students create specific environments within their scenes?
“My students are very vague when it comes to object and environment work. How do...
Teaching Improv: How do I help students make their scenes more interesting?
“My students get stuck fixating on one thing in a scene and the scene...
Drama Game: Emotional Quadrants
Type: Creativity Purpose: An active way to allow students to explore a range of emotions. Procedure: 1. Create...
Drama Game: Affect the Player
Type: Creativity, Improv Purpose: A useful game that will help students explore objective and tactics. Most...
Drama Game: The Truth About Me
Type: Ensemble Building Purpose: Participants share truths about themselves in order to find commonalities amongst the group....
New Play for Middle & High School Coming February 5th, 2018
We’re kicking off the new year with a big announcement… On Monday, February 5th, 2018 we’re releasing...
Drama Game: MeYouYouMe Name Game
Purpose: A fun, quick game to help learn the names of everyone in the class. Procedure:...
VIDEO: Tony Nominee Mentions Beat by Beat Musicals on Late Night with Seth Meyers
We just had a I-can’t-believe-that-just-happened moment! Patrick Wilson was a guest on Late Night with...
Drama Game: Do Nothing
Type: Warm-Up Purpose: This game fits in a category that I call minimalism 🙂 Extremely simple, yet effective at...