TCAF/CSAF Drama Director OAP Workshop 

Schedule
          10:00-10:50

• Purpose of Theater Education
• The Director’s role before, during and after rehearsal
• Building a winning Rehearsal Schedule
• Considering Limitations Given by Your School
• How to Structure Rehearsals in the Early Days and the Late Days
• Getting an Outside Opinion
• Championing the drama program to Administration and Parents
• Building a drama program

10:50-11:00 Break
          11:00-11:50

• Judging, Play Choice and Casting
• What Judges are looking for
  • Speech
  • Character
  • Low Hanging Fruit
    • ​Blocking
    • Miming
    • Costuming
    • Set
• What Judges Remember
  • ​The Beginning
  • The Characters
  • The Moment
  • The End
  • The X Factor
• Play Choice (OAP vs. Program Building Shows)
• Casting

11:50 Break and grab lunch
12:00-12:50 Working Lunch

• Q&A- Director Choice

12:50-1:00 Break
1:00- 2:00

• Technical Considerations
  • Set
  • Costumes/Makeup
  • Music and Sound
  • Lighting and Special Effects

2:00-2:50

• Modeling Direction
• Scene Workshop and Performances

2:50-3:00 Break
3:00-4:00 OAP

• Competition Help
  • Cutting the show
  • TCAF vs. Other Competitions
  • Excellence vs. Ego- balancing competition in a healthy way
  • Structuring your tech rehearsal and competition days
  • To hire or not to hire: acquiring consultant or show workshop partners

Questions to Discuss

Why do YOU do theater?
Were you an actor? What was your best role?
Did you compete in OAP? What was your most successful show?
Who inspires you the most as an actor? A director? A playwright?
Why do you think your students chose to be a part of your program?
What do you hope to get out of OAP competition?

Sample Documents

1. Sample Class Syllabus (Parent and Student Production Expectations)
   
2. Sample Parent Information Meeting Slides
   
3. Possible Play List (Hay)
4. Sample Rehearsal Schedule
5. UIL OAP Program Sample (2025)
   
6. ​Sample Tech Cues Sheet
   
7. Youtube to MP3 converter website
   
8. Download backing tracks and adjust the key
   
9. Tech Rehearsal Minute By Minute

Music Exercise

Spotify List

Cheerios Monologue

Music Moments

Annie Sullivan's final speech with music.

Direction Modeling

Miracle Worker Script Hay cut for OAP

Previous Productions

Click here to see some of our shows.