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Craft unique voices for your characters that reflect their personality and background. Use dialogue as a vehicle for expressing their desires, motivations, and relationships.

Use physical mannerisms to convey your character's emotional state, personality, and reactions. These should be consistent with the character's psychology and backstory.

Develop a history for your character that informs their motivations, fears, strengths, and weaknesses. Use this backstory to guide how they react to events in the play and interact with other characters.

Explore the varying relationships your character has with others in the play. Use these relationships to reveal different aspects of your character and to propel the narrative.

Chart the transformation of your character over the course of the play. Decide whether they will change (dynamic) or remain the same (static) in response to the plot.

Give your character flaws that make them relatable and add depth. Flaws can be a source of conflict, drive the plot, and facilitate character growth.

Establish clear goals that your character is trying to achieve in each scene. These objectives should drive their behavior and create conflict when they clash with other characters' desires.

Assign secrets to your characters that inform their actions and create dramatic tension. Decide when or if these secrets will be revealed to impact the narrative.

Define what internally drives your character to act. Motivation can stem from a character's personality, backstory, or external pressures and is crucial for understanding their behavior.