About Shawn and Social Theatre™
Growing up going to Music, Arts, and Drama camp, I loved taking the clowning workshop every summer. It was really a great experience just being able to be free and express yourself through play with others!
As a school social worker, I began a clown troupe that wrote their own plays about social skills and prevention issues. Our clown troupe evolved into a comedy troupe, and we began incorporating Social Thinking® concepts. Bringing the idea of Social Theatre to Colleen Hanson, the owner of CORE Connection Counseling in Lisle, IL, she allowed me to begin theatre groups to practice and teach social skills in the clinical setting.
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