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This website has a lot of information on how to go about designing sets and props. It also has information about working with other production team members. This includes information on how to draw floor plans to show your fellow production team members exactly what you are thinking the set should look like. The article gives a list of suggested pieces to add to a set that make your set successful and good quality. A list of designing tools are also written on the bottom of the page.

How to go about designing sets and props/working with other production team members

This website provided me with games to help create immediate and reactive character development. I'm enrolled in theatre arts this semester, and some of these games are similar to ones we play. I may even suggest one of these games to play in class.

This site is completely dedicated to different costumes and materials. I recommend it to anyone who is looking to buy or make a costume.

Painting a theater set is much different than painting a house, the solid colors and muted tones of most residential homes would wreak havoc with stage lighting. This site is very helpful as it has many tips on how to paint your set so that it looks good on stage. It also has a lot of information on how not to spend too much money when designing and building your sets. Construction rules are also included in the article.

Painting a theatre set is much different than painting a house – the solid colours and muted tones of most residential homes would wreak havoc with stage lighting and not

This website allows you to read "A Christmas Carol" free online. It's a great way to read the original text without having to buy the book because it has the full text online for free. The site also supplies other books online for free, like an online library.

This website gives 6 steps you can go through to master difficult acting scenes. The six tips they provide are helpful hints about how to get around common difficulties when acting harder emotions, such as anger or sadness.

Here's another short video, apart of a mini series about acting, by professional theater director Dr. Charles Grimes that touches on how to tap into your real emotions on stage, and in acting auditions. Helpful for anyone dealing with hard emotions to portray onstage.

I watched the movie version of "A Christmas Carol" with Kelsey Grammar and Jennifer Love Hewitt. This version is the one closest to the musical script that we used for the fall musical. An enjoyable movie that helped me visualize the characters and understand the story in another way.

12/4/13 I found this article on how to make an actor become a three-dimensional character. The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts Dee Cannon shares the ten questions that actors need to investigate about their character to make them a fully-idealised person instead of just a character's dialogue with a visual of them. The ten questions and Cannon's advice on how to answer the questions through your character's point of view helped me to understand how professional actor's are able to become the character. A couple of the questions reminded me of what I talked about with Jen Allred about how to act my break-up scene in "A Christmas Carol" well. It also gave me other suggestions that I will use the next character I act.

Written by Bruce Miller, the director of acting programs at the University of Miami, this article talks about the skill of listening and reacting on-stage during scenes. Miller starts out by talking about his experience with his freshman acting classes, then goes on to talk about the skills of how to listen and react to the actions and dialogue on-stage and in the moment.

Just some books to read before you go see them...or maybe after you see them.

This article was published by the Lee Strasburg Theatre and Film Institute to describe the goals of their acting abilities. It is a good article to further describe Method Acting, and is a good prelude to Stanislavski's An Actor Prepares.

Really cool video of an idea on how to do makeup for Scrooge in the play A Christmas Carol. Many ideas to build from.

This video goes back to the original designs by Dickens and also shows designs from modern day.

This is a short video by professional theater director Dr. Charles Grimes about finding your character while rehearsing monologues by using a outside to inside method. Helpful if you're having a hard time understanding the personality of your character for an audition.