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Programs
The SOS Players focuses on educating students through peer-to-peer connections in a theatrical medium. The success of SOS Players lies predominantly in the interpersonal connection that teen audience members feel as they watch young people – just like themselves – perform and share real life situations and how we can all learn ways to make better choices. The impact of SOS Players rises from the high-energy performances of committed and talented young people.
SOS Players offers a full range of educational performance and workshop opportunities in Hudson, WI, St. Paul, MN, and surrounding areas. Contact the SOS Players for complete program and booking information.
Educational and Artistic Presentations
SOS offers performance packages that are geared to specific age groups – Teens (Grades 9-12), Teens to Teens (Grades 6-9), Choices (Grades 3-6), Meth Show (Grades 9-12) and Respect Show (Grades 9-12). Also, there is a menu of A la Carte Sketches which can be selected to address a specific issue a school or organization may be facing such as: bullying, poverty, depression, “Mean Girls,” etc. The intent of all presentations is to address current social issues impacting youth every day.
Break-out Sessions
In addition to the question and answer period that follows each show, the SOS artistic staff and actors are available for small breakout sessions. The goal is to provide a more comfortable forum for audience members to share their feelings and concerns. In some cases, these sessions reveal significant personal issues and our actors become the bridge to providing the audience member resources to seek additional assistance.
SOS Youth Development, Guidance and Mentoring
The SOS teen actors receive training in acting, improvisation, peer mentoring, and leadership.
Artistic Internship Program
Each year up to two outgoing seniors are awarded a yearlong internship with the SOS Players organization and receive a modest stipend.
Guest Artist Series
Local and regional artists are invited to perform and/or share their knowledge of their particular art form.
Guest Educator Series
This program is designed to provide our actors educational opportunities in addition to the skills they learn as members of SOS. Examples of recent presentations: Kathy Kater, nationally recognized author and public speaker on the promotion of healthy body image, eating, nutrition and fitness; Mike Huntley, M.A. LP,clinical director and youth and family therapist for the Youth Service Bureau in Stillwater, MN.
Academic Internship Program
Theatre students from the University of Wisconsin at River Falls intern with SOS Players and receive class credit.
SOS Juniors (ages 6-13)
A preparatory program to develop presentation skills in youth ages 6 to 13. The goal is to identify and build a talent base to join senior touring troupe once eligible. The junior program began with eight students in 2006, but includes over 65 youth today.
KITE Workshop (Knowledge and Ideas through Theatre Education)
An interactive theatre workshop targeting grades 3-6. Presentation focus is on a single issue such as bullying. In a KITE program, the audience joins the actors in presenting the message and, in the process, learns a more acceptable approach to solving a real-life problem.
Booking with SOS Players
For booking information on the SOS Players and their teen-to-teen education programs, contact the SOS Players Hudson office.
"SOS has become an annual treat for our eighth grade students in New Richmond. They are well-organized, talented, and inspired, and their performances have been springboards for our advisory group discussions of values and choices. In the past couple of years, New Richmond students have joined the troupe. On the stage and off, these people serve as great role models for younger students. 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 for our teachers and homeroom advisors 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 Cobian,
New Richmond Middle School Contact
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