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Shakin Up Shakespeare

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16- One Minute Mens Shakespeare Monologues for Classwork or Auditions

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

These monologues have each been cut to approximately one minute's worth of Shakespeare text. They are not modernized in any way. This is the real stuff. The great thing about each one is: - Each cutting contains a linear plot line which makes them

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Drama, Literature

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Printables, Scripts, Centers

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17 One Minute Womens Shakespeare Monologues for Classwork or Auditions

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

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English Language Arts, Drama, Literature

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7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Activities, Scripts, Centers

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Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing 90-Minute Cutting (of the original play)

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing is Shakespeare's lush comedy/drama set on the coast of Italy. We had fun with it using a certain Disney pirate ride as a concept for the set, costume and characters. What a blast! Argh! This is the full story, however, it's

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English Language Arts, Drama, Theater Arts

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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Activities, Cultural Activities

$10.00

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A 90-minute Cutting of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

A great choice for students of all ages, but especially high school programs interested in introducing Shakespeare to their student body. This is a beautiful romantic play and a laugh-outloud comedy that the cast and the audience will talk about for

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English Language Arts, Drama, Theater Arts

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

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Scripts, Cultural Activities

$15.00

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Renaissance Style Feaste Fundraiser Full Planning Packet and Script

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

This is a very valuable packet of information that includes the full planning, instructions and script for a Shakespearean/Renaissance-style dinner theatre and performance. We do this event annually and have made up to $10,000 in a single night.

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English Language Arts, Music, Drama

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Scripts, Cultural Activities

$25.00

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Shakespeare's Loves Labours Lost Act 5 Scene 2 Ten Minute Ensemble Large Cast

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

This is a careful Shakespeare cutting of Love's Labour's Lost Act 5 Scene 2 for scene study and performance.This comedic Shakespeare scene has four big parts for women and six smaller roles for men. It can be set in any time period. It could even be

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English Language Arts, Drama, Literature

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Activities, Scripts

$10.00

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Shakespeare/Renaissance Style Feaste Fundraiser SCRIPT ONLY

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

This is the SCRIPT ONLY that will allow you to create a Renaissance style FEASTE with your students. It is not only a great performance and cultural event for your students but we have done this annually with our students and regularly make $10,000.

Subjects:

Music, Vocal Music, Drama

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Scripts, Simulations, Cultural Activities

$15.00

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Shakesspeare's TAMING OF THE SHREW 70-Minute cutting of the original play.

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

Taming of the Shrew 70 Minute-Cutting! Perfect for any group! We added an "American Frontier" concept and you could add an old fashioned shoot-out for 90 minutes of fun! It's tried and true through the Education Touring company at the Tony

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Drama, Theater Arts, Literature

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

Activities, Literature Circles

$15.00

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WHEN, a full-length play for high school students by Jan Shelton Hunsaker

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

WHEN is the perfect play for a high school-aged cast. It is also rich in characters for women: EIGHT great roles for girls, three for men and can be made into a much larger cast with many more FEMALE ROLES. In it's initial production, we used more

Subjects:

Drama, Theater Arts, Other (ELA)

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education

Types:

Activities, Scripts, Service Learning

$7.50

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Renaissance Style Feaste Fundraiser PLANNING PACKET ONLY

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

This is the planning packet ONLY that will allow you to create a Renaissance style FEASTE with your students. it is not only a great performance and cultural event for your students but we have done this annually with our students and regularly make

Subjects:

Music, Drama, British History

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Simulations, Cultural Activities

$15.00

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Shakespeare's Richard III 10 Minute Cutting of Act 4 Scene 4

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

This is the famous scene with Queen Margaret, Queen Elizabeth and the Duchess of York when they compare their losses and confront the "toad" Richard. A rich and delicious scene for three talented actresses and a powerful actor. I've added an

Subjects:

Drama, Theater Arts, Literature

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education

Types:

Activities

$15.00

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Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus - 10 Minute Ensemble Scene

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

This is a scene from Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare. It is not a cutting that would be found consecutively in the text. It has been meticulously compiled from Act 5. It takes approximately 10 minutes to perform and can involve as many as

Subjects:

Drama, Theater Arts, Poetry

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

Activities, Scripts

$10.00

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Shakepeare's Hamlet - Get Thee To a Nunnery Scene

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

Hamlet! This is a powerful scene between a girl and boy. Hamlet loves Ophelia. I believe he does. But he loves his dead father more. And he is SO angry. So to revenge his father he has to make everyone think he’s nuts. Including Ophelia. In this

Subjects:

Drama, Theater Arts, Literature

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

Activities, Scripts

$5.00

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Shakespeare's - Macbeth and Lady Macbeth Kill Duncan Scene

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

Lady Macbeth has convinced her husband to start killing everyone that lies in his path to the King-dom. After Macbeth does the first deed he returns with the daggers. She must return them to the scene so they don't get caught. This is the first

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Drama, Theater Arts

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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Activities

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Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors - Dromio of Syracuse Monologue

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

This is a cut and competition ready monologue from one of Shakespeare's funniest plays. Dromio of Syracuse is being chased by an interesting woman who claims that they are betrothed to each other. He is in a hilarious panic!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Drama, Literature

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Printables

$3.00

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Monologue for Young Woman - Shakespeare's Emilia from Othello

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

Emilia has just learned that her husband is responsible for the plot that eventually has killed her beloved Lady Desdemona. This is her reaction! It's a great monologue for a girl that isn't afraid to cry.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Drama, Literature

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Scripts

$3.00

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You Don't Say - Word Wall and Game Encouraging Specific Language Use

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

This is a 34-page packet of mini posters for you to hang up in your room and/or use in an exercise that will encourage your students to be more specific in their word choices. The end result is a hilarious storytelling event that each student gets

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Short Stories, Writing

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Posters, Lesson

$3.00

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Shakespeare Monologues for Young Women - Isabella, Measure for Measure

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

This award-winning Shakespeare monologue is cut and ready for competition or classwork. It is approximately 3 minutes in length. This is from Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure. The character is Isabella, who is accusing a jailer of wanting to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Drama, Theater Arts

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Scripts, Literature Circles

$3.00

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Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus - Aaron Kills the Nurse 2 Boys and a Girl

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

In this scene, Tamora, Queen of the Goths has given birth to her lover's child and demands that he kill it before her husband finds out. Aaron takes the baby and kills the nurse instead. This content is probably for high school students and older.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Drama, Theater Arts

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education

Types:

Activities, Scripts

$5.00

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Breathless, A One Act Play

By Shakin Up Shakespeare

The story of a group of women that lost their husbands to the Black Lung epidemic in 1938, Mercur, Utah. Roles for 6+ women and 4+ men. 45 minutes long.

Subjects:

Arts & Music, Drama, Theater Arts

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Activities, Scripts

$7.50

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

5 years - junior high school speech and drama 8 years - high school theatre, technical theatre, musical theatre, speech, debate and English 8 years - public charter school arts administration 6 semesters teaching theatre education and film on the university level

MY TEACHING STYLE

Highly disciplined classroom and rehearsal space, very competitive, direct BIG musicals with hundreds of kids, high expectations!

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

2011 Hall of Fame National Theatre Educators Association (5 in the nation) Accent on Excellence (Teacher of the Year) Alpine School District, 2001 Winner, American High School Theatre Festival, 2002 Volunteer of the Year, Lehi City Corporation, 2003) Theatre Coach of the Year, Utah High School Activities Association, 2003 Woman of Distinction, Miss Lehi Pageant, 2004 Administrator of the Year, Utah State Charter Association, 2009 Hall of Fame Award (Lifetime Achievement) National Educational Theatre Association, 2011 (one of five teachers in the nation) Coach of the Year, Utah High School Activities Association, 2012

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Bachelors Degree, Theatre Arts, Southern Utah University Masters of Fine Arts, Theatre Education and Directing, University of Utah

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

My husband is also an actor and theatre teacher. We work hard to get our students into the top theatre colleges and universities around the nation. We have a lot of awards from Shakespeare, acting and musical theatre competitions. Our forte is Shakespeare, cutting competition pieces and doing award-winning musicals in under 6 weeks. We love what we do and we love kids!

GRADES

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Social Studies, Arts & Music, Music, Vocal Music, Drama, British History, Other (ELA), Literature, Short Stories, Writing, Poetry