Pioneer Drama | Theatrical Publishing

MAR
14

Working with Young Actors
How to Keep Young Actors Invested During Rehearsals by Grey Pratt

MAR
7

Tips for Directors
How to Keep Actors Off Their Phones During Rehearsal by Christina Hamlett

MAR
2

Tips & Tidbits
It’s Spring Performance Season!

FEB
21

Directing Student Actors
Supervising Student Actors by Flip Kobler

FEB
13

Tips & Tidbits
It’s Contest Season!

FEB
7

Tips & Tidbits
Online Ordering

JAN
26

Choosing a Musical
Give My Regards to Un-Broadway by Debra Fendrich

DEC
6

Creative Theatrical Ideas
The Power of Stage Lighting by Grey Pratt

OCT
18

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Masculine Makeup for the Stage by Grey Pratt

OCT
11

Building Writing Skills
Incorporating Playwriting into Your Already-Packed Drama Program by Kendra Thomas

OCT
4

Promoting your Production
Marketing for Community and School Theatres by Grey Pratt

SEP
20

Tips for Directors
How to Talk to an Actor About a Role (Privately) by Jon Jory

SEP
13

Building Acting Skills
Introducing Theatre Skills to Young Actors by Grey Pratt

SEP
6

Working with Student Actors
Bring a Playwright to the Classroom by Charlie Lovett

AUG
22

Welcome to a New Season
Tips for Working with Pioneer Drama Service

AUG
17

Tips for Directors
The First Day of Rehearsals by Jon Jory

AUG
8

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Better Call Pioneer Drama

MAY
17

Tips for Actors
Three Simple Rules to Theatre by Jon Jory

APR
14

Working with Actors
Vacillation on Stage by Jon Jory

MAR
3

Working with Student Actors
The Great Un-Boring by Flip Kobler

FEB
3

Tips for Directors
Audition Tips for New Directors by Christina Hamlett

JAN
20

Tips for Directors
10 Rules for Auditioning by Jon Jory

JAN
13

Building Acting Skills
Improv Games and Exercises for Character Development

DEC
3

Tips for Directors
Blocking Notes by Jon Jory

NOV
9

Working with Actors
Acting Is Thinking by Jon Jory

OCT
26

Staging Your Production
Horror in the House of Theatre by Grey Pratt

OCT
22

Choosing a Musical
The Ease – and Joy! – of Producing a Pioneer Drama Musical by Debra Fendrich

OCT
19

Working with Actors
Teaching Actors Variety by Jon Jory

OCT
12

Tips for Actors
Don’t Get Rusty! by Christina Hamlett

OCT
7

Tips for Directors
Six Horrible, Awful, Terrible Mistakes I’ve Made as a Director by Jon Jory

SEP
28

Working with Actors
Making Your Theatre a Safe Space for Trans/Non-Binary People by Grey Pratt

SEP
14

Tips for Actors
10 Tips to Showcase Your Monologue Skills by Christina Hamlett

MAY
18

Building Your Theatre Program
Give My Regards to Un-Broadway by Debra Fendrich

MAR
11

Working with Actors
Voila! Virtual Vocal Warm-Ups by Lavinia Roberts

FEB
17

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Green Screen Backgrounds Can Take You Virtually Anywhere! by Karen Vuranch

FEB
2

Tips for Directors
Zooming in on Virtual Auditions by Lavinia Roberts

JAN
26

Tips for Directors
If I Can Do It, So Can You! by Courtney Hess

JAN
19

Tips for Directors
Virtual Theatre Secrets by Deborah M. Sansone

JAN
13

Tips for Directors
All the World’s a Screen by Chris McRae

JAN
4

Tips for Directors
Glass Half Full: Some Surprising Benefits of Virtual Theatre by Lavinia Roberts

DEC
14

Tips for Directors
The Amazing Possibilities of Virtual Theatre by Tommy Croll

DEC
7

Tips for Directors
Not All Virtual Theatre Is Created Equally by Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus

DEC
2

Tips for Directors
Directing Theatre Virtually? Totally Possible! by Katie Rich

NOV
17

Tips for Actors
The Basics of Theatre Auditions by Chase Conlin

NOV
3

Tips for Actors
Virtual Auditions and Self-Tapes by Chase Conlin

OCT
6

Working with Student Actors
Helping Students Find Their Voice, Part 2 by Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus

OCT
5

Working with Student Actors
Helping Students Find Their Voice, Part 1 by Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus

SEP
22

Creative Theatrical Ideas
The Scale Model Set Design Distance Learning Lesson Plan by Brian D. Taylor

SEP
15

Tips for Directors
Virtual Theatre Is Not the Same by Flip Kobler

SEP
10

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Livestreamed and Virtual and Streamed... Oh, My!

SEP
1

Tips for Directors
The Art of the Virtual Stage Manager by Karen Vuranch

AUG
27

Tips for Directors
Making Musicals Possible

AUG
17

Creative Theatrical Ideas
How Virtual Theater Works for Small Community Theaters by Gene Worthington

JUL
14

Tips for Directors
Help for the First-Time Virtual Director by Kevin Stone

JUN
9

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Theatre in the Next Year by Debra Fendrich

MAY
21

Coming Soon!
Introduction to Theatre Arts — Second Edition

MAY
20

New releases!
Two Versions of a New Virtual Play!

MAY
14

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Cover All Your Bases

MAY
13

New release!
Left to Our Own Devices

MAY
12

Monologue Mania!
Virtual Cooking, Anyone?

MAY
7

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Skits from The Carol Burnett Show

MAY
6

New release!
A Virtual Family

MAY
5

Creative Theatrical Ideas
A How-To Guide to Virtual Theatre

APR
29

New release!
Another Virtual Production Package

APR
27

New release!
Virtual Scene Collection #2

APR
24

Monologue Mania!
Cell Phone Envy

APR
23

Building Your Theatre Program
Let’s Pause and Take a Breath

APR
22

Monologue Mania!
The Secret Garden and The Adventures of Rikki-Tikki Tavi

APR
21

New release!
Virtual Complaint Department and Lemonade

APR
20

Monologue Mania!
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz & The Nose That Ran Away from Its Face

APR
17

Monologue Mania!
Decorating Decisions

APR
16

New release!
Virtual Scene Collection #1

APR
15

Monologue Mania!
The Boy with No Name and A Memory of Harold

APR
14

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Distance-Learning Resources

APR
13

Monologue Mania!
Anne of Green Gables and The Selfish Giant

APR
10

Monologue Mania!
Blood Moon? Boring!

APR
9

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Theatre can be fun and games with Class Act Reproducibles!

APR
8

Monologue Mania!
The Last Leaf and Pride and Prejudice

APR
7

Tips for Directors
We’re All In This Together

APR
6

Monologue Mania!
Scheherazade and Whispers

APR
3

Monologue Mania!
Mom’s Mushy Meatballs

APR
2

Monologue Mania!
Camp Stowaways and The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

APR
1

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Distance Learning with Royalty-Free Skits

MAR
31

Monologue Mania!
Fighting for My Self and If These Walls Could Talk

MAR
30

Monologue Mania!
Bayou and Diary of a Wallflower

MAR
27

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Turn Your Hard Work Into a Distance Learning Opportunity!

MAR
26

Monologue Mania!
Grover and Rememberin’ Stuff

MAR
25

Monologue Mania!
Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Secret Garden

MAR
24

Monologue Mania!
Dodgeball

MAR
23

Monologue Mania!
Perspectives on a Ban on Gum

MAR
20

Monologue Mania!
Dracula and Frankenstein

MAR
19

Monologue Mania!
Bigger Than Life and In the Hood

MAR
13

Touching Lives Through Theatre... Together™
The Show Can Go On... Virtually!

MAR
4

Building Acting Skills
Stage Voice for Grandpa Cletus by Alexi Alfieri

FEB
5

Working with Actors
Let’s Lose Those Scripts! by Christina Hamlett

JAN
22

Working with Student Actors
Memorization and the Old Schoolmarm by Alexi Alfieri

OCT
9

Working with Actors
Enter (Laughing) Stage Left by Christina Hamlett

SEP
17

Working with Teen Actors
The Contract That Could Save Your Sanity by Edith Weiss

AUG
21

Building Acting Skills
Beyond Learning Lines by Margaret F. Johnson

MAY
16

Building Writing Skills
Scripts for Stage vs. Screen: Aren’t They Interchangeable? by Christina Hamlett

APR
10

Creative Theatrical Ideas
How to make large, lightweight masks for kids (and adults, too!) by Susan Frost

APR
3

Creative Theatrical Ideas
How to make large, lightweight masks for kids (and adults, too!) by Susan Frost

MAR
6

Working with Actors
The Show Must Go On... With or Without You by Christina Hamlett

FEB
20

Working with Actors
Stage Fright Is Not a Thing by Brian D. Taylor

FEB
6

Working with Actors
Creating Onstage Chemistry by Christina Hamlett

JAN
16

Creative Theatrical Ideas
The Rainbow Fish Musical

JAN
9

Working with Actors
Audition by Improvisation by Christina Hamlett

NOV
1

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Creative Approaches to Understanding Characters by Margaret F. Johnson

OCT
17

Building Your Theatre Program
25 Ways to Fund Your Theatre Production by Raechel Odom

SEP
6

Working with Actors
Mindfulness in Rehearsal by Ashley Rice

AUG
8

Recruiting Young Actors
Recruiting: How to Attract Young Actors into Theatre by Flip Kobler

JUL
19

Tips for Directors
Help for the First-Time Director by Kevin Stone

MAY
2

Playwright Profile
Q&A with Todd Wallinger

APR
4

Building Your Theatre Program
Promoting Your Show

MAR
21

Playwright Profile
Q&A with Kendra Thomas

MAR
7

Advocating for the Arts
Advocate for the Arts Any Time, All the Time

FEB
21

Working with Student Actors
Self-Producing for Students by Brian Hampton

FEB
7

Tips for Directors
For the Love of Theatre by Mike Steele

JAN
24

Working with Actors
Theatre games to help you warm up by Wade Bradford

JAN
10

Working with Actors
Theatre Resolutions for the New Year by Edith Weiss

DEC
19

Touching Lives Through Theatre... Together™
Count Your Blessings by Cindy Marcus

DEC
6

Building Your Theatre Program
Service Learning: The Gift of Theatre by Lorraine Thompson

NOV
15

Working with Student Actors
Theatre Things for Which We Are Thankful by Lavinia Roberts

NOV
1

Building Your Theatre Program
The Write Stuff: Building Real, Student-Made Theater by Margaret F. Johnson

OCT
18

Working with Young Actors
Helping Shy Kids Break Out of Their Shells by Flip Kobler

OCT
4

Working with Actors
Tricks and Treats of Memorizing Lines by Brian Hampton

SEP
20

Working with Student Actors
Creating Student Internship Opportunities with Cooperative Drama by Mike Steele

SEP
6

Working with Student Actors
Developing Trust with Cooperative Drama by Mike Steele

AUG
24

Advocating for the Arts
Advocate for Your Program During Arts in Education Week

AUG
10

Working with Young Actors
Setting Rules and Expectations for Your Theatre Program by Brian D. Taylor

JUL
26

Working with Teen Actors
Empowering Kids Through Theatre by Klarissa McAuley, KRCG-TV

JUN
28

Staging Your Production
No Set? No Sweat! by Edith Weiss

JUN
7

Building Your Theatre Program
Tips for a Productive — and Fun — Summer! by Lori Conary

MAY
24

Tips for Directors
Our Staff Favorites

MAY
17

Great Literature in the Theatre
Putting Classic Literature on Stage by Thomas Hischak

MAY
3

Director Appreciation
Ode to the Drama Teacher by Samantha Bennett

APR
19

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Quick Change Artist by Chris Wheeler

APR
4

Simplifying the Director’s Job
Pioneer Drama Gives You More

MAR
21

Tips for Directors
Winning the Production Schedule Marathon by Brian D. Taylor

MAR
7

Advocating for the Arts
Be a Champion of the Arts

FEB
22

Advocating for the Arts
What Are Your Numbers? by Debra Fendrich

FEB
7

Creative Theatrical Ideas
How to Build a Simple and Sturdy Stage Platform by Brian D. Taylor

JAN
24

Building Your Theatre Program
Inviting a Playwright to Your School by Todd Wallinger

JAN
10

Working with Young Actors
Stage Acting vs. Screen Acting by Edith Weiss

NOV
16

Building Your Theatre Program
Watch It! Being a Good Audience Member by Margaret F. Johnson

NOV
1

Directing Student Actors
Managing Successful Rehearsals by Edith Weiss

OCT
12

Working with Actors
Taking Care of the Actor’s Voice by Kevin Stone

SEP
27

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Building a Simple Stair Set by Brian D. Taylor

SEP
13

Working with Student Actors
In the Spotlight: Character Building by Lorraine Thompson

AUG
30

Choosing a Musical
Give My Regards to Un-Broadway by Debra Fendrich

AUG
3

Working with Student Actors
Activities to get your school year started by Margaret F. Johnson

JUL
12

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Unique Outdoor Performance Challenges by Edith Weiss

JUN
28

Building Acting Skills
Summer Fun with Royalty-Free Skits

JUN
14

Working with Young Actors
Developing a Young Actor by Flip Kobler

MAY
24

Staging Your Production
Simple Stage Costuming and Make-up Tips by Margaret F. Johnson

MAY
11

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Giving Them Wings and a Voice by Lorraine Thompson

APR
27

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Make an Actor Appear Onstage Out of Thin Air by Mike Steele

APR
13

Simplifying the Director’s Job
Finding Buried Treasures

MAR
22

Building Your Theatre Program
Including Special Needs Actors in Your Program by Kevin Stone

MAR
8

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Going the Extra Mile with Costumes by Mike Steele

FEB
23

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Easy and Inexpensive Traveling Sets by Margaret F. Johnson

FEB
9

Working with Actors
Bring Something Fresh to the Rehearsal Process by Mike Steele

JAN
26

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall by Kevin Stone

JAN
12

Creative Casting Ideas
Creating a Role for Everyone by Flip Kobler

DEC
2

Creative Theatrical Ideas
The Power of Projection by Brian D. Taylor

NOV
4

Working with Student Actors
Memorizing Lines: Tips for Young Actors by Kevin Stone

OCT
20

Working with Student Actors
How to Manage Fifty Youth When Your Show Has Thirty Roles by Wade Bradford

OCT
6

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Fire Up Your Next Production by Kevin Stone

SEP
15

Building Your Theatre Program
Volunteers. Finding and Keeping ’Em by Flip Kobler

SEP
1

Creative Casting Ideas
When You Have More Performers Than Roles by Mike Steele

AUG
18

Tips for Directors
Top Ten Reasons Why You’ll Love Working with Pioneer!

JUL
28

Simplifying the Director’s Job
Taking Advantage of the Dog Days of Summer by Mike Steele

JUN
24

Simplifying the Director’s Job
The Awesome and Excellent Play Reading Committee by Edith Weiss

JUN
3

Building Acting Skills
The Word on Mime by Patrick Rainville Dorn

MAY
13

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Playwriting Projects for the Drama Classroom by Brian D. Taylor

APR
29

Building Your Theatre Program
The S.O.S. Guide to Taming the Storage Room Monster by Brian D. Taylor

MAR
25

Creative Theatrical Ideas
The Power of Living Theatre by Lorraine Thompson

MAR
3

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Make Shakespeare Fun for Your Students by Wade Bradford

FEB
18

Building Acting Skills
Thanks, I Needed That! by Kevin Stone

FEB
4

Working with Young Actors
Introverts in Theatre by Wade Bradford

JAN
20

Working with Young Actors
Encouraging Young Performers to Audition Again and Again by Mike Steele

JAN
7

Directing Student Actors
Tidbits of Advice for School Musical Directors by Gary Ewer

DEC
2

Building Acting Skills
The Sounds of Silence: The Power of a Well-placed Pause by Kevin Stone

NOV
12

Building Acting Skills
Creative Drama Class Units Using Royalty-Free Skits by Brian D. Taylor

OCT
28

Working with Young Actors
Breaking Down the Bard: Unlocking Shakespeare’s Language by Lorraine Thompson

OCT
14

Building Acting Skills
Acting in the Past by Charlie Lovett

SEP
30

Promoting your Production
Advertising with Social Networking by Mike Steele

SEP
16

Working with Actors
It Takes a Town: Activities for Building an Ensemble by Lorraine Thompson

SEP
4

Welcome to a New Season
Pioneer Drama is bigger and better than ever!

JUL
22

A New Take on Improvisation
Improvisation: What It Is, Is Not and Why It’s Necessary by Stephanie Muller

JUN
24

Working with Young Actors
Dealing with Stage Parents by Edith Weiss

MAY
29

Touching Lives Through Theatre... Together™
The Heart of Theatre

MAY
22

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Putting on a Radio Play by Cindy Marcus

MAY
7

Simplifying the Director’s Job
Electronic Production Scripts Are Here!

APR
22

Working with Student Actors
To Cut or Not to Cut? by Mike Steele

APR
1

Building Acting Skills
Blocking Tips by Kevin Stone

MAR
18

Staging Your Production
The Set Builder’s Nightmare by Brian D. Taylor

MAR
4

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Costuming on a Budget by Mike Steele

FEB
28

Adding Music to Plays
Putting the Sound of Music in Your Production by Edith Weiss
Music and Fair Use: Honoring Copyright by Lori Conary

JAN
29

Creative Casting Ideas
Casting Without Stereotypes by Edith Weiss

JAN
21

Working with Actors
Natural Speech: Losing the ‘Actor Voice’ by Lorraine Thompson

DEC
10

Working with Actors
Conquering Stage Fright by Charlie Lovett

NOV
5

Building Your Theatre Program
Fan-o-Grams: A Fundraiser That Raises Much More Than Money by Lorraine Thompson

OCT
22

Working with Young Actors
The Loner, the Slacker and the Drama Queen by Flip Kobler

OCT
8

Working with Student Actors
Help Students Learn Their Lines by Mike Steele

SEP
24

Directing Student Actors
The Tradition of Team by Lorraine Thompson

AUG
27

Welcome to a New Season
Fifty Years, Fifty New Titles by Steven Fendrich

AUG
13

Casting a Great Show
Careful Casting Leads to a Great Production by Craig Sodaro

JUL
23

Working with Actors
Casting and the Actor’s Ego by Kathleen Wallace

JUN
18

Working with Actors
Casting with Too Many Girls by Lucy Lovett

MAY
22

Theatre as Literature
Who Was This William Shakespeare? by Charlie Lovett

MAY
7

Working with Young Actors
The Case for Double Casting and Using Understudies Effectively by Brian D. Taylor

APR
17

Tips for Directors
Speak the Speech by Brian D. Taylor
Travelling the House by Brian D. Taylor

APR
3

Building Your Theatre Program
Double a Donor’s Impact with a Challenge Grant

FEB
20

Building Your Theatre Program
Filling Seats by Flip Kobler

FEB
6

Working with Young Actors
Helping Kids Make Emotions Look Real by Flip Kobler

JAN
23

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Curtain Up by Brian D. Taylor

JAN
9

Choosing a Musical
Good-bye, Broadway... Hello, Unknown Play by Edith Weiss

DEC
12

Touching Lives Through Theatre... Together™
Theatre Rocks by Chris Wheeler

NOV
28

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Creating Trees for the Stage by Brian D. Taylor

NOV
7

Working with Actors
Surviving the Less Than Stellar Performance by Flip Kobler

OCT
24

Working with Actors
Surviving the Less Than Stellar Performance by Flip Kobler

OCT
10

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Creating Old Age Characters by Chris Wheeler

SEP
6

Directing Student Actors
Working with Teenage Actors by Edith Weiss
The Ten Commandments for Directing Student Actors by Edith Weiss

AUG
24

Simplifying the Director’s Job
Introducing E-view subSCRIPTions™!

JUN
20

Building Your Theatre Program
Promoting Your Production by Lori Conary

JUN
6

Working with Young Actors
Engaging Students with the Drama Class Blog by Brian D. Taylor

APR
25

Advocating for the Arts
The Magic of Theatre by Lori Conary

APR
11

Directing Student Actors
Teaching Through Validation in Your Theatre Program by Nathan Hartswick

MAR
7

Directing Student Actors
The Pros and Cons of Producing a Broadway Musical by Debra Fendrich

FEB
22

Building Your Theatre Program
Finding an Appropriate Script by Brian D. Taylor

FEB
8

Simplifying the Director’s Job
Chasing Away a Director’s Worst Nightmares by Brian D. Taylor

JAN
25

Theatre Tech
The Incredible Scale Model Set Design Lesson Plan by Brian D. Taylor

DEC
7

Staging Your Production
Dare to Go Big by Brian D. Taylor

NOV
16

Theatre as Literature
To Teach, Or Not to Teach... Shakespeare by Charlie Lovett

NOV
2

Creative Theatrical Ideas
The Green Theatre by Brian D. Taylor

OCT
19

Working with Actors
Differently-abled: Working with Disabled Actors by Edith Weiss

OCT
5

Building Your Theatre Program
Don’t Ruin Opening Night with Closing Night Blues by Edith Weiss

SEP
21

Welcome to a New Season
The Awesome and Excellent Play Reading Committee by Edith Weiss

AUG
24

Working with Actors
Building Community in Your Theatre

JUL
20

Directing Student Actors
The Ten Commandments by Edith Weiss

JUN
22

Working with Young Actors
Why a One-Act Musical? by Flip Kobler

MAY
18

Building Your Theatre Program
Commedia Dell’Arte

MAY
4

Building Your Theatre Program
Top Ten Tips for Taking Your Show on the Road by Edith Weiss

APR
20

The Moments before the Show
The Power of Pre-Show Pow-Wows by Flip Kobler

APR
6

Building Your Theatre Program
Be a Champion of the Arts by Brian D. Taylor
What Do I Teach? by Tim Reagan

MAR
23

Working with Actors
Casting with Too Many Girls by Lucy Lovett

MAR
9

Building Writing Skills
The Great Scriptwriting Challenge by Brian D. Taylor

FEB
23

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Shadow Puppetry Solutions to Production Challenges by Brian D. Taylor

FEB
8

Creative Theatrical Ideas
Simple Shadow Puppetry for the Classroom and Stage by Brian D. Taylor

JAN
26

Building Acting Skills
Make an Entrance! by Edith Weiss

JAN
12

Building Acting Skills
Preparing for a Musical Audition

DEC
3

Working with Actors
Too Many Actors, Not Enough Parts? by Edith Weiss

NOV
17

Working with Young Actors
Using Theatre to Prevent Bullying by Madeline Stephenson
Anti-Bullying Resources

NOV
3

Working with Young Actors
Using Theatre to Prevent Bullying by Madeline Stephenson

OCT
20

Working with Actors
Breaking Walls: Getting a Reluctant Actor to Come Out of His Shell
by Stephanie Muller

SEP
22

Working with Teen Actors
Aiding Your Theatre Students in the College Hunt by Stephanie Muller

SEP
8

Welcome to a New Season
Good-bye, Broadway... Hello, Unknown Play by Edith Weiss

JUN
1

Developing a Parent Volunteer Corps
Confessions from a Parent Volunteer Junkie by Debra Fendrich

MAY
4

Staging Your Production
No Stage Lights? No Problem! by Edith Weiss

APR
7

Building Your Theatre Program
Supplement Your Theatre Budget with Grants by Karen Gilchrist

MAR
17

Building Your Theatre Program
Save Your Budget

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