Workshops

Supercharged Skits

Do your students perform skits? Would you like those skits to have greater impact? Do you want to get your students talking about hot topics?

Michael Agnew, Artistic Director of GTC Dramatic Dialogues, uses his theatrical expertise to train your students and supercharge your skits. His directorial approach provides non-actors a safe environment that draws out the best performances possible. With 25-years of experience in issue-based theatre, Michael insures that your students’ scenes are engaging and keenly focused on the issues.

Michael works with students to create simple, effective skits. For greater impact, he will train student leaders to do interactive scenes to get students talking. Michael can facilitate the interactive performance or he can train a faculty/staff member to do the facilitation.

Choose the workshop model that best suits you.

Supercharged Skits

Develop, create, and rehearse up to three skits on issues including diversity, sexual assault, alcohol and roommate issues. Michael guides students to work from their own ideas or to customize basic scenarios that he provides, making them campus specific. This workshop requires a minimum of 5-hours with a group of up to 25 students.

Interactive Skits with Facilitated Performance

To make your Supercharged Skits go above and beyond, Michael trains students to interact with the audience using a talkback format. Each actor receives a set of possible questions/answers and a statement of their character’s core point of view that enables them to handle the interaction with confidence. This workshop includes practice talkbacks and Michael’s facilitation of your performance. A minimum of two days with a group of up to 25 students is required. Each day consists of at minimum a 5-hour session with the students; additional time is required to train a faculty/staff facilitator.

All models include extensive consultation before and after the workshop to plan and implement a program with the greatest impact.

The presentations helped our students process and discuss sensitive, yet important, issues that are germane for the collegiate population. It led to many engaging conversations among students, which I am confident will translate into more thoughtful future actions throughout the semester.

Lenoir-Rhyne College
Hickoy, NC

Booking Information

Length: Recommended minimum 5 hours. Longer workshops available according to desired objective.

Number of Participants: Maximum 25

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