Our Programs

Supporting Roles is here to support all aspects of your work. We want to help you to produce great theater while building and maintaining a resilient, productive and impactful creative team.

Supporting Roles can build programs for a season, a production, a full organizational assessment or a one-time workshop.

Support for a     

 Production

Production mental health services:

For a single production with strong emotional content.

  1. Prospective Session with Director:  Discuss mental health resources and participants’ relationship to material.

  2. Mental Health for Artists 101 Workshop for production team.

  3. Mental Health for Artists 101 Workshop for casts.

  4. Mental Health Intermission - Check-in mid-production.

  5. Production Debrief for Team and/or the Cast - what’s important that we didn’t have (or make) time to deal with during the run?  How can space be made for it now?

  6. Participation in 1-2 public talkbacks (optional).

Support for your

Organization

Support for arts organizations for three distinct purposes:

  1. Assessment: Culture audit with presentation and report.

  2. Remediation:  Culture repair and team-building.

  3. Transition:  Support theater staff through a leadership transition.

  Support for a

Season  

   

Proactive resourcing for the full production season:

This includes but is not limited to offerings available above in Production Support.

  1. Consultation and collaboration with production, administrative and executive staff to evaluate organization-wide needs.  

  2. Mental Health workshop curriculum for creative communities. Workshops for each production team as well as the larger organizational staff, by department.

  3. Quarterly Play Session - 90-minute sessions open to anyone involved in a production

  4. Production Role-ing and Derole-ing workshops for each show in a season

  5. Additional emotional and technical support for sensitive topic productions

  6. Crisis intervention and acute individual counseling support for all staff in all departments.

À La Carte  

  Workshops

Mental Health for Creative Communities:

3 hour workshops for teams

  1. Crisis Intervention (can be extended to additional time)

  2. Body Image for Actors, Directors and Costume Designers

  3. Burnout and Self-Care in the Theater

  4. Role-ing and De-role-ing for Wellness

  5. Supporting the Whole House

  6. Naming and Framing the Relationship to the Material

  7. Creating and Maintaining Mentally Healthy Creative Cultures

Contact Supporting Roles to discuss which option would best fit your organization and to discuss our pricing. We can also curate a program to meet your organization’s particular needs.

Even in the most stressful situations, the healthier a creative environment is, the more resilient, productive, and impactful it can be.