Drama is an activity involving a wide range of internal or external movements related to life situations that one or more people live with each other, and interactions with the nature or other objects. Since drama is a group work, it encourages groups to work together and communicate with each other. In this context, drama is a way for the individuals to develop themselves. It is easier to observe the desired behaviors in the individual because an individual learns through living real life situations and hands on experiences in the drama. Drama plays an effective role in terms of individual self-realization and development of empathy ability due to playing roles from different social groups. This research was conducted to examine the effects of drama education on the communication skills of teacher candidates. For this purpose, semi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test control group was used in the study. The sample of the study consisted of 52 primary school teacher candidates (38 female and 14 male) for the experiment group and 46 mathematics teacher candidates (39 female and 7 male) for the control group. The experimental group took 12 weeks of drama education supporting basic communication skills, verbal and non-verbal expression skills and effective listening skills. The personal information form and the Communication Skills Scale were applied both to the experimental group and the control group before the study. The results show that there is a significant difference in favor of the experimental group when the average scores of communication skills are examined.