Workshops/Conferences Presented with Narrative Well
Narrative Well
My company is a storytelling, learning, and facilitation hub that helps people and institutions excavate, shape, and steward meaningful narratives (especially those rooted in Black history, cultural memory, social emotional learning, and lived experience) for purposes of education, reflection, and transformation.
Feel free to reach out if you’d like me to design a workshop or curriculum for your organization/univeristy/program
Workshops include :
Artivism and Creative Resistance.
Length 90 minutes
Description:Using my play in progress 111 Orchestra Place as a case study I will present a workshop that explores my See,Say,Do methodology for creating Artivism (arts activism).
Presented at
Ursinus College Spring 2026
Visionary Collective Spring 2025
Archiving Across
Length 90 minutes
Description Using my play in progress, 111 Orchestra Place, as a case study this is a workshop that explores how I’ve used oral history with Detroit elders and archival research to create 111 Orchestra Place.
Presented at:
City Center Winter 2026
Producing Indie Theatre from Head to Tail: A Case Study
Length 90 minutes . Created in collaboration with DaMonique Ballou
Description: Through two productions, 2Plays2Days and Mud, Camille Simone Thomas and DaMonique Ballou created, engaged, and educated audiences about bipolar disorder. Using their experiences as case studies, this workshop intends to support arts-educators and theater-makers looking to develop audience experience, create healthy working communities, and articulate their own artistic philosophy. Participants will walk away having first articulated the aspects of theatre/ the creative process they are disillusioned with and what their dream collaborative process looks like.
Essentially, these discussions ask participants: (1) How do we usetheaterto create, engage, and educate a community about a particular topic or social justice issue? How do we produce performances that prioritize both a healthy process ofmakingtheater and a successful performance?
Presented at:
American Alliance for Art Education Leaders of Color Initiative Fall 2024
Classroom Management
Length: 2 hours (can be adjusted)
Description: This classroom management workshop will equip teaching artists with practical relationship-building and classroom management skills. Participants will master setting clear expectations in classrooms for both classroom teachers and students, learn how to build reciprocal relationships and manage student expectations, and learn how to build trust with students. They will learn the A.S.K. method for engaging students and then use theatrical skills to roleplay, utilising the A.S.K. tool. Finally, participants will engage in a closing conversation where we will share our knowledge of what has helped us most in our teaching artist practice and where we still hope to grow.
Presented at:
Partnership with Children
Transforming Together: Theater, SEL, and the Power of Student Voice
Presented by Sam Leopold: Program Manager,
Camille Simone Thomas: Teaching Artist
American Alliance for Theatre Education National Conference 2025 in Cleveland
This interactive session explores the "Stages of Change" model applied to theater education and social-emotional learning (SEL). By reflecting on both innovative practices, such as the Student Voice and Engagement (SVE) program, and the core values of theater education, participants will engage in hands-on activities, collaborative discussions, and reflective exercises to explore how to sustain student engagement while maintaining traditional values.
The Healing Arts: Lessons from a Trauma Informed Healing Arts Theater Program
Presented by Sam Leopold: Program Manager,
Camille Simone Thomas: Teaching Artist
American Alliance for Theatre Education National Conference 2023 in Seattle
In this interactive session we will share our experience collaborating between theater artists, classroom teachers, and social workers in our four year Federally Funded Student Voice and Engagement Program in four schools in Brownsville, Brooklyn. We will explore our program model, discuss how theater taps into students' natural language of play and storytelling and strengthens classroom community, students' coping skills, self-expression, and relationships. Through small group discussion, hands on games and theater exercises, and the presentation of media from our program, we will share, reflect, and actively explore what we have learned about program design and implementation thus far, and talk about how we plan to scaffold our learning into years 3 and 4 of the program. Join us for a conversation of what we have learned about the impact of this collaboration and bring back ideas, tips, and strategies for application at your own setting.