Brian Sweis Email & Phone Number

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Essential Theatre’s primary art form is Playback Theatre, an improvisational theatre performance format in which audience members tell stories from their lives and watch them brought to artistic life by the ensemble of actors and musicians. Weaving improvised scenes with music, movement, and metaphor, Playback Theatre performances reflect the diversity of human experience and celebrate our common humanity.Essential Theatre serves inner-city and rural audiences across Arizona and the southwest, including incarcerated and at-risk youth; homeless adults and children; domestic violence survivors; developmentally disabled adults; public school children and educators.

Partners That Heal use improvisation and structured play to elevate mood and improve communication with individuals in a wide variety of care settings. Team members are specially trained to assess the individual qualities and needs of each person and create specific repertoire of improvisational interactions for them, making magic that helps soften hard edges and ease fear and pain. Partners That Heal help bridge trust and communication between individuals and their caregivers by creating shared memories that act as future points of conversation.