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Auditions & Workshops
AUDITIONS OPEN
In Skits Outreach Services, Inc. (known as SOS Players or SOS), young people create and produce original dramatic sketches that address and illuminate serious issues that teens face: choices related to substance abuse and sexual behavior, and struggles with depression, bullying, racism, and sexual and physical abuse. In the course of our 20-year history, we’ve enabled hundreds of students, in their after school and summertime hours, to build leadership and artistic skills and community connections—sometimes life-saving ones—as members of our company. These dedicated students reach thousands of audience members each year with moving presentations, inspire personal responsibility among youth, and help adults better understand the teens they work with.
Landmark Center in St. Paul
75 West Fifth Street #319
May 11, 2010 4:00-6:00pm
And May 18, 2010 4:00-6:00pm
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Hudson Playhouse in Hudson, WI
900 Fourth Street
May 20, 2010 4:00-6:00pm
May 21, 2010 4:00-6:00pm
No preparation Necessary
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SOS Juniors 1 and 2 Auditions
Since 2006, SOS Players has offered an opportunity for younger actors called SOS Juniors. This unique program gives youth ages six to twelve the forum to develop presentation and theatre skills as well as discover how to be positive peer role models.
SOS Juniors is a training ground for future members of the senior touring casts of the SOS Players in both St. Paul and Hudson. SOS Juniors prepares young people to become mentors and role models with skill development in the following key areas.
- Confidence building
- Public speaking
- Theatre education
- Compassion
- Respect
- Friendship
Hudson Playhouse in Hudson, Wisconsin
900 Fourth Street
May 19, 2010 4:00-6:00pm
No preparation is necessary
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Call for more information.
715-441-6902 or 651-438-5416
Auditions are held each year to maintain a touring cast of 55 teen actors ages 13 to 18 in both the Hudson and Landmark locations. A typical performance requires a cast of eight to ten actors.
The SOS Players present as many as 200 educational programs annually to school audiences, church groups, and youth leadership conferences. They also deliver presentations to audiences of educators, social workers, and law enforcement.
WORKSHOPS
SOS offers and/or designs workshops to meet specific group needs or educators’ curriculum requirements.
KITE Workshop (Knowledge and Ideas through Theatre Education)
This is an interactive workshop targeting grades 3-6. The focus of the presentation is on a single issue such as bullying. In a KITE program, the students join their mentors in presenting the message and, in the process, learn a more acceptable approach to solving a real-life problem.
SOS Residency
This is an interactive workshop with seven sessions, 90 minutes per session, for seven weeks. Using theatre education as the medium, and character education as the mission, it is an excellent mentoring program for 10-12 students from one school. They will learn two sketches with a focus on youth social issues. At the end of the seven weeks, the result is an SOS performance that includes the two residency sketches (performed by the 10-12 local students).
SOS Peer Advisor Workshops(high school and middle school only)
New in 2008, this is a three-hour workshop addressing four issues of concern for a school. Students learn and discuss how to be a helper and how to answer the hard questions.
“SOS has become an annual treat for our eighth grade students . . . they are well-organized, talented, and inspired, and their performances have been springboards for our advisory group discussions of values and choices. In elementary school, values education takes place every day, but when students reach middle school, a stage at which many important and sensitive choices first present themselves, we sometimes see a gap. A performance by the SOS Players provides a great opening . . . to begin a classroom dialogue on those issues.
“Thanks for your energy and your courage, SOS. Your messages are the ones our students need to hear more often today, and your use of humor, action, music, sound, and lighting engages them from the first seconds of the show till the last.”
~ Vicki, New Richmond Middle School
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