Speeches & Workshops
Ken Bradbury was one of America's most produced authors of school speech-contest material — monologues, duets, and humorous and dramatic interpretations performed by students for decades.
Ken wrote prolifically for the world of high-school forensics — the speech-contest pieces that students across the country performed in competition. These are the scripts and workshop materials preserved in his archive.
- - Over the rainbow……….. Group
- ---Spoken..played… brought some help
- . Team Improv
- “The Dirty, Rotten Kid”
- (Linda is down left, looking at something she’s holding)
- (music under)
- (singing) Oh well-a listen Son, now it can’t be done if a poor country boy can’t do it.
- * Dance naked in front of your pets.
- 07 Judge Booklet Suggestions
- 1 Welcome
- 1: 9:40-10:30
- 10 Commandments of aging
- 10 Commandments of aging
- 10 Commandments of aging
- 10 Commandments of aging
- 10:05- 11:45- Session III
- 11 July 96.. White Hall Group
- 1st Christian Men’s retreat
- 1st Christian White Hall Travel
- 1st Christian White Hall Travel
- 1st part: demo, then more audience participation
- 2 Rivers Municipal
- 2001 Speech Workshop
- 2002-2003 Speech Workshop Schedule
- 2003 Triopia Chorale Presentation
- 2004 Speech Workshop Schedule
- 2004 Speech Workshop Schedule
- 2005 Jr High Speech Entries
- 2005 Jr High Speech Entries
- 2005 Speech Workshop Schedule
- 2006 Roberta'
- 2006 Speech Workshop Schedule
- 2006 Speech Workshop Schedule
- 2007 Speech Workshop Schedule
- 2008 Extra Lines
- 2008 Scholastic Bowl Topics
- 2009 Brown Co. Library Program
- 2009 Speech Workshop Schedule
- 2010 Speech Workshop Schedule
- 2011
- 2011 Music Workshop Schedule
- 2011 Scholastic Bowl Workshop Schedule
- 2011 Speech Workshop Schedule
- 2012 IESA Team Improv Games
- 2012 Scholastic Bowl Workshop Schedule
- 2012 Speech Workshop Schedule
- 2012 Speech Workshop Schedule “Western Revue”
- 2012 Testimonials
- 2012 Workshop Inquiry Letter
- 2013 GI Prompts And Descr
- 2013 Opening Skit
- 2013 Scholastic Bowl Workshop Schedule
- 2013 Speech Workshop Schedule
- 2013 Team Improv prompts:
- 2014 GI Prompts And Descr
- 2014 IESA Conf
- 2014 Improv Tips
- 2014 Scholastic Bowl Workshop Schedule
- 2014 Speech Workshop Schedule
- 2014 stimulating, educational
- 2015 Improv W'shop Notes
- 2015 Opening skit
- 2015 Passavant Stroke Support
- 2016
- 2016 Speech Workshop Schedule
- 2016 Speech Workshop Schedule
- 2017 Speech Workshop Schedule
- 2018 Speech Workshop Schedule
- 21 August 2000
- 24 April 2007
- 2nd career…. NPR… “extended avocation” May-October
- 3rd Pres. S’field
- 4-H Conf April 96...Springfield Mansion View Motel
- 5:30..be there
- 6 Oct 96, 3rd Presby. S’field
- 6 Oct 96, 3rd Presby. S’field
- 8 Block Conf.
- 8:20 arrive
- 8:25-9:00 9:05-9:40 9:45-10:20 10:25-11:00 11:05-11:40
- 9:30 and 11:00 Mt. Sterling, 1:30 Versailles, 3:30 Clayton.
- A Glossary of Improv Terms
- A note to coaches and judges regarding improvisation. . .
- A prayer makes me giggle.
- Abeline If you’re not from J’ville....
- Acting
- Acting Workshop
- Activity Update
- Administrator’s Academy
- Advice to Commencement speakers:
- Agenda 1-9-06
- Alaska
- Alberta’s obituary
- All but Adrienne: They've Put a Brassiere On a Camel!
- ALL: Give ‘em the old…Razzle Dazzle… Razzle Dazzle ‘em…
- Alsey Grade School Graduation
- Ambucs
- Ambucs, Oct 2008
- Anderson, Andy__________ Burbridge, Megann_________
- Ann Marie Stahel
- Announcement To Kids
- April 10th
- April 10th
- April 2004
- April 2010
- April 2016
- April 21, 2001
- April 21, 2001
- April, 2009
- Arenzville and Concord UME
- Arenzville UME 2018
- Asbury
- Asbury
- Asbury
- Asbury
- Asbury 2004
- Asbury 2007
- Asbury 2015
- Asbury May 98
- Asbury2003
- Ashland Alumni Banquet
- Ashland/Plains Libraries.. Writers life
- At The Hop!
- Athens Middle School
- Auburn Pre-School Parents Nov96
- Aug 02
- Aug 02
- Aug 2003
- Aug 2013
- Aug 2015
- August 2005
- August 97 Riverton
- August 98 Athens & Warrensburg
- August 98 Athens & Warrensburg
- Autobiographical Stories
- B. Improv Duet Acting
- B’town Teachers Keynote, Oct 06
- Baccalaureate & Commencement Speakers
- Baccalaureate & Commencement Speakers
- Baccalaureate:
- Be a Survivor!
- Beardstown
- Beardstown Community Church 2003
- Beardstown Extension
- Beardstown Institute
- Beardstown Library
- Beardstown Opera House Fundraiser
- Beardstown Scholars Banquet
- Becky Oliver.. Reading Council and Principals May 97
- Beethoven.. Alabama Jubilee
- Beginning teacher…asked to coach speech…cardboard box full of contest speeches.
- Big Bro-Sis
- Bill Miller
- Bill Miller...to Edith
- Bishop Hill Writers
- Bishop Hill Writers
- Bluffs 9 Nov 95
- Bluffs church, 2002
- Bluffs Reunion..travel
- Bob Reeves
- Bob Slavens story…
- Book Bindery July 19, 2004
- Boy Scout service day, 2013
- Brad..
- Bradbury 2007 prompts
- Brains Hit Broadway!
- Brian. . clowning
- Broadway Hits Bloomington!
- Brooklyn Methodist
- Brown Co. Soil & Water Conservation
- Brown County Fair Board
- Brown County Library Improv
- Bud
- Bud Carls' Funeralt
- Buffalo Heart church
- Bummy
- Bummy
- Bummy
- Burke, Sylvia
- Bus Women
- Bushisms
- C G
- C'sistry
- Camp Point
- Camp Point
- Camp Point Central Teacher’s Banquet, May 20. 1996
- Camp Point Writing
- Canton, IL Aug 2012
- Canton...Young Authors....2 March 95
- Cantral Elementary
- Carl Sandburg
- Carrollton seniors
- Carrollton seniors
- CASHE Kickoff Breakfast..I.C. Jun 4, 96
- Cass Co Mental Health
- Cass Co Soil and WAter
- Cass Co Soil and WAter
- Cass. Co. Volunteers
- Centenary Methodist
- Centenary UME
- Centenary UME
- Centinary Methodist
- Central 8 Leadership Conf.
- Cerro Gordo…famous author’s day.. “Probably dead”
- Chamber Ag Night
- Chandlerville Travel
- CHARACTERS: Mother, Father, Leonora, Max, Roof the Dog.
- CHARACTERS: Mother, Father, Leonora, Max, Roof the Dog.
- Chenoa
- Chillicothe…famous author’s day.. “Probably dead”
- Chilochothe
- Chorale Presentation Workshop
- Cindy Anderson..Yes HYPERLINK "mailto:csa3@earthlink.net" csa3@earthlink.net
- College Hill Book Club
- Comparative Folklore
- Compiled by Ken Bradbury
- Compiled by Ken Bradbury
- Compiled by Ken Bradbury
- Compiled by Ken Bradbury & Stolen from various sources
- Compiled by Ken Bradbury & Stolen from various sources
- Compiled by Ken Bradbury & Stolen from various sources
- Concord Lenten Service
- Contest Schedule
- Contestant
- Create a panel discussion…
- Creating Character Feb. 25, 2012
- Creative Dramatics ideas:
- Creative Dramatics in the Classroom
- Dale Spencer
- Dalton…Helen
- David
- Dec 96, Scott County and Catholic Daughters
- Dec,2002
- Dennis..
- Dick Orr’s funeral
- Dirt:
- Dist 117
- Donovan II
- Doris Groat
- Dr. Chet Bone
- Dylan…
- Earl Cully’s memorial service
- Effingham Farm Bureau
- EMBED MSWordArt.2 \s
- Energizers
- Esley Sisson, Jr.
- Event
- Explain the Rules
- Explain the Rules
- Famous Author’s Day… Peoria school… “Probably Dead.”
- Feb 2008
- Feb 2012
- Feb 7, 2000
- February 2008
- February 2008
- February 2008
- February 2010
- Festival of Trees Volunteers
- First page (cover) of brochure:
- First time in Mt. Sterling Legion…across the road, playing in a rock band.
- Fishhook Sunday School Convention
- Fishhook Sunday School Convention
- Folk songs... literally..Music of the people.
- Foodvoln
- For Sale
- Fox Ellis Material
- Franklin Methodist
- Funeral Speech
- Galations 6:
- Game Descriptions
- Game Descriptions Additional Wording In Red>
- Getting Your Head Ready for Christmas
- Getting Your Head Ready for Christmas
- Getting Your Head Ready for Christmas
- Getting Your Head Ready for Christmas
- Good to be here without giving blood.
- Grace Meth Ladies Night
- Grace Methodist
- Greene Co. Farm Bureau
- Greene Co. Farm Bureau
- Greetings from Coonridge.
- Griggsville Teachers
- Group 1: Katie Evans, Corey Andrews, Sydney Meyer, Erin Washington
- Group I:
- Groupings
- Groupings
- Gustaf: Mary, this moment means more to me than you know.
- H-15 Telling Personal Tales
- Hall Of Fame
- Heart Association Fundraiser 2 March 96
- Heart1
- Hey Ken! I have my list for chorale reading. They are:
- Hi everyone, Thanks to all of you we are going to have a wonderful evening.
- Hi…I’m _____...and this is my new friend ___________
- Hillsboro 2003 Aug 23
- Hiney the Mule
- Hitchhiker (destinations)
- Hitchhiker (Destinations)
- Hoosen Johnny... Chris on guitar
- Hospice Volunters
- Hospice Volunters
- How To Tell A Tale
- Howe Electric Employees
- HTMLCONTROL Forms.HTML:Text.1
- Humorous Duet Improv:
- Humorous IDA prompts
- Humorous IDA prompts:
- Humorous IDA Prompts:
- Humorous IDA:
- Humorous Improv Prompts
- Humorous Improv Prompts:
- Humorous Improv:
- Humorous Improv:
- Humorous Prompts
- Humorous:
- Humourous Ida Prompts
- HYPERLINK "mailto: Sheila.Taylor@morton709.org" Sheila.Taylor@morton709.org
- I am the perfect choice …my amazing and award-winning career in FFA.
- I come from Arenzville…nice to be around Democrats.
- I wrote a poem for today…Need some help.
- I.C. Parents 1997, Dec
- I’ll Take My Jesus Dancing
- I’m dreaming of a White Christmas….
- I’m just a lowly speech coach… I feel so all alone…
- IC Trivia Night Music
- IDA:
- IESA Judge Evaluation Form
- Iesa Judges Instructions:
- Iesa Judges Instructions:
- Iesa New Teachers
- Iesa New Teachers
- Iesa New Teachers
- Iesa Speech
- IESA Speech..Hitting the High Notes in 2008
- IESA Storytelling
- IESA Storytelling
- If you are a dreamer, come in,
- Illinois College Commencement
- Illinois College Phi Alpha Lecture
- Illinois College Phi Alpha Lecture
- Illinois Principal’s Association, 2007
- Impromptu Speaking
- Impromptu Speaking:
- Improv Exercises
- Improv Games
- Improv games workshop, 2011
- Improv Olympics
- Improv Olympics
- In Honor Of Veterans
- Individual
- Intro Steve, me and kids.
- Invention Game Rules
- IS Topics
- Isles School, April 2011
- Isvi Youth Conf.
- It’s a Roundup!
- It’s Flashy! It’s Affordable..and It’s Important!
- It’s……..
- J’ville 4-H club
- J’ville Centinary Meth & Pittsfield 1st Christian
- J’ville Monday Club
- J’ville Pilot Club
- J’ville Pilot Club
- J’ville Retired Teachers, 2011
- Jacksonville Administrative Assistants
- Jacksonville Library Annual Meeting
- Jacksonville Retired Teachers
- Jacksonville Women’s Club
- Jane 18, 1998
- Jane 18, 1998
- Jansen Joehl
- JESS: (entering) Are you ready yet?
- JHS area teachers
- JHS English Honor Society
- JHS English Honor Society
- JHS English Honor Society
- JHS Opening ‘96
- JHS Seniors
- Jillian’s confirmation class
- John Wood Class
- Johnny Appleseed
- Joint Bar/Medical society
- Joint Bar/Medical society
- Joint Kiwanis-Rotary
- Jonathan Turner Graduation
- Joy in Christ
- Joys of Teaching
- Jr. High Speech Contest
- Jr. High Speech Contest
- Judges Choice Awards
- Judges Choice Awards, Area 16
- JUDITH: (entering R as Sylvia stands in front of a mirror preening) You ready?
- JUDITH: You ready?
- June 2008
- June 2016
- June 21
- Just a Closer Walk
- Kate Scott, Brandon Cook, Zach Pickens, _________
- Kate Scott, Brandon Cook, Zach Pickens, Calla Kauffman
- Kathy Seymour - Ann Marie Stahel (Ams)
- KATIE E: Hi. We’re the Triopia Chorale Presentation Group …
- Ken - IESA Idea-4
- Ken Bradbury
- Ken,
- Ken,
- Key adjudication points:
- Kiwani.. Rotary
- Kiwani.. Rotary
- Kiwanis National Day of Prayer
- Kiwanis Prayer Breakfast
- Kiwanis Prayer Breakfast
- Kiwanis-Rotary Prayer Breakfast
- Kiwanis/Rotary Dec 2005
- Knox County Institute Presenter
- Koinania Lay Speakers
- Krista Dougherty Savage.. Amazing Grace
- Let it Go! Let it Go!
- Liberty Church
- Liberty Church
- Liberty Church
- Liberty Church
- Liberty Church July 4, 2004
- Liberty Writers Week
- Library Conference
- Lincoln Land
- Line Talk
- London Hotel.. 13 Triopia girls.. “what time would you like your girls knocked up?”
- London: Girls.. knocked up
- Loosen ‘em UP…The Energizer
- Lords and Ladies, Knights and Maidens with strain of contest heavy-laden..
- Lynville Methodist
- Mac Speakers series
- Mac Speakers’ Series
- Mac Theatre Class
- Mac Theatre Class
- Macomb Institute
- Macomb, 2008..Final comments
- MADD Award Banquet
- Maddy Perry reads something
- Manchester Mom-Daughter
- March 2004
- March 2008
- March 2008
- March 2008
- March 97 Divernon
- March 99
- Martin Burrus eulogy
- Mary Bunting
- Mary Nelson,
- Mary Tedrow
- Matt Magelitz
- Matt..baritone Rudolph, Jingle Bells, Oh Come All Ye Faithful
- May 97 Monmoth
- Meredosia PTA
- Methodist Ministers and Spouses
- Monday Conversation Club
- Montserm
- Morgan Cass Red Cross
- Morgan Country Historical Society
- Morgan Country Historical Society
- Most of our folk music comes from British Isles.
- Motivation
- Mt Sterling Presby. 22 Dec 96
- Mt. Sterling Baptist
- Mt. Sterling Baptist
- Mt. Sterling Baptist
- Mt. Sterling H.S. Writers
- Mt. Sterling Head Start
- Mt. Sterling Headstart, Aug, 2006
- Mt. Sterling Methodist
- Mt. Sterling storytelling…
- Mts. Methodist Oct, 2002
- Mts. Pres.
- Mts. Pres.
- Mts. Presbyterinan
- New Berlin
- New Berlin
- New Berlin 2015
- New Berlin Leadership Conf
- New Salem Lincoln League
- North Jacksonville Reading Night
- North Mac Career Fair
- Notre Dame
- Nov 05
- Nov 2000
- Nov 2000
- Nov 2001
- November 2007
- Oct 03
- Oct 2004
- Oct 2011
- Oct 97
- Oct 98 Rushville pol. officials
- Oct 99
- October 2008
- October 2012
- October 2012
- October 2013
- Oddfellows Celebration
- Oh Beaver!
- Oh, the places you’ll go, Dr. Seuss! The people you’ll meet on the way!
- On behalf of Marty, Dutchy, boys and family, thanks for coming here today.
- Once up dug dead men.
- Our newest event
- Our Saviors
- Own life
- Pana Writing
- Pana Writing
- Passavant Auxiliary
- Pathway
- Perfecting the Performance
- Pergrad
- Perry DAR
- Perry Griggsville
- Perry Griggsville
- Perry Lent
- Perry Lent 04
- Perry Methodist
- Perry Methodist
- Perry Methodist
- Perry Methodist Lenton Service 6 March 95
- Perry UME Lent
- Perry/Griggsville Teacher’s Institute
- Petersburg NHS
- Pi Pi Rho
- Pike Co. DAR 2012
- Pike Co. Retired Teachers
- Pike Co. Scholars’ Banquet
- Pike Co. School Secretaries
- Pike Co. School Secretaries
- Pike Scholars, 2013
- Pike Scholars, 2018
- Pikeland Writing Workshops, 2007
- Pilot Club... Feb 96
- Pittsfield Crossroads
- Pittsfield DAR
- Pittsfield DAR
- Pittsfield Middle School Reading
- Pittsfield Reading Motivation
- Pleasant Plains
- Pleasant Plains
- Pleasant Plains
- Pleasant Plains Methodist
- Please bring 20 humorous Improv and Impromptu prompts and 10 serious Improv prompts.
- Prairieland Heritage School Dedication
- Pray for the kids
- Pray for the kids
- Presbyterian Youth
- Presbyterian Youth
- Principal’s Meeting
- Private School Association
- Production Script
- Promise Keepers
- Promise Keepers
- Proposed change to Group Improv rules for 2014.
- Props: What is and is not a Prop?
- Questions commonly asked by judges….
- Quincy Girls’ Conf.
- Relay for Life, 2007
- Relay for Life, June 2008, Hamilton’s
- Retiring with grace and class……
- Retiring with grace and class……
- Retiring with grace and class……
- Retiring with grace and class……
- Retiring with grace and class……
- Returned, wrong address
- Rhoers...Feb 95
- Roast
- Rochester Student Leaders Conference 2016
- Roodhouse 5th-grade Writing, 2010
- Roodhouse Sandy Creek Baptist Men, Wild game dinner
- Rotary-Kiwanis Joint Meeting
- Rotten Convention
- Routt HS
- Routt Night Thing
- Rubrics for evaluating storytelling
- Rushville Hospice
- Ryan Bradney Charge
- S’field Baptist, May 2012
- S’field Lifelong Learning
- Sadly, it seems like we were just here.
- Salem Lutheran
- Salvation Army
- Salvation Army 2-12-02
- Saturday, Feb 10
- Saturday, Feb 10
- Schuyler Hospice 2002
- Scott Co. Extension
- Scouts Day
- secretary day
- Sent 21 Feb 96
- Sept 19, 1997
- Sept 97
- Shayla Grantham
- Silverstein New
- Small Group Acting
- Small Group Acting Casts
- Small Group Intro
- Soil and Water Feb 3 & 4, 1997
- Some music about People helping people…
- Sparrow Records
- Speech
- Speech Advisory Committee
- Speech Advisory Committee
- Speech Entries
- Springfield 3rd Pres
- Springfield College Writing Class
- Springfield Extension Gardeners
- Springfield Teachers of Deaf
- SSU
- St Peter’s Travel
- St. John’s Lutheran
- Start Action
- State FHA Leadership
- Station K-O-R-N
- Station K-O-R-N
- Steve…
- Storytelling
- Storytelling
- Storytelling
- Storytelling
- Storytelling Activity
- Storytelling As A Rewriting Tool
- Storytelling As A Rewriting Tool
- Stress speech
- Sunday
- Surfin’ IESA!
- Sylvia…
- Take An Old Story And Make It New
- Taking the stress out of parenting.
- Teachers’ Institute October 2005 Beardstown Energizers
- Team Improv
- Telling Tales Tall And True
- Thanks…cards and prayers
- That Age
- That’s Shel!
- The Coonridge Digest
- The Five Commandments of Improv
- The Five Commandments of Improv
- The Five Commandments of Improv
- The Five Commandments of Improv
- The Jungle Book. . kids and parents. . . no one speaking to each other. . all on devices.
- The Oral History Interview
- The Real American
- The setting is Louisville, Kentucky, late 1930s.
- Theatre Fest Brainstorming
- Theatre Techniques and Games in the Classroom
- There was a boy named _________ in a county known as Pike
- There was a boy named _________ in a county known as Pike
- There’s a certain feelin’ when you’ve got no reason to shout that you suddenly sing
- There’s a sound in the wind. Be quiet, you’ll hear it.
- They didn’t know each other.. .
- Timewell
- Timewell Baptist
- Timewell Baptist
- Timewell Baptist
- Timewell Baptist March, 2000
- Timewell Oct 02
- To the Rochester Board of Education,
- To: Those beating the bushes for Theatre Festival Workshops
- Top of Form
- Travel speech....Quotes
- Triopia Jr. High
- Triopia Speech Class
- Try Again, Please
- Turner IESA
- Turner presentation.
- TV commercial for an auto body shop in Beardstown..Booley
- Two New Events:
- USE OF MUSIC in theatre
- Utterly Ridiculous
- Utterly Ridiculous
- Volunteer Chaplain Recognition Dinner
- Washington School
- Washington School, Washington School
- Wesley Chapel
- What experiences do Il authors share? How do Midwestern values shape writing?
- When there was Me and You
- White Hall Baptist
- White Hall First Christian
- White Hall First Christian
- Willamsville Young Authors
- Winchester Extension
- Winchester Library
- Workshop Schedule
- Workshop Schedule
- Workshop Schedule
- World Day of Prayer
- Writeown
- Writers
- Writing scripts, 2013 IESA
- Writing Winners 2016
- Writing Winners 2018
- Yesterday.. Dave Zink. Lincoln Land.. 3-Legged Dog. Convenience store on North Main..
- You can never have authority over your enemies as long as they’re upsetting you.
- Doxology…Great is the Lord
- Something you were dreading about today.(Me: attitudes)
Nothing matches that filter.