Speaking Engagements
Founder/Artistic Director Deborah Nowinski shares her years of experience in inclusion theatre to educators throughout Texas.
She has been invited to speak at educators' workshops for Katy ISD, Clear Creek ISD, Texas Educators Theatre Association, and also at state level conventions for special educators and administrators. She is currently writing a guidebook "Your Role in Inclusion Theater, A Guide for Educators and Artistic Directors"
To book, please call (713) 728-0041
True Confessions of a Bully
Bringing actors with disabilities and those who are able-bodied to your school or organization is much more than a theater experience.
Our production True Confessions of a Bully teaches students why it is wrong to bully, and what they can do to prevent it from happening. This production includes a ten to fifteen minute talk back.
For more information, contact Deb@dionysustheatre.org
or call (713) 728-0041
Main Stage Productions
Pictured Above: The Boys Next Door.
We cast the show honestly as the playwright inteneded: 4 men who had varying degrees of intellectually disabilities that lived in a group home.
The performance was flawless.
Main Stage & Youth Theatre
Reviews about our anti bully show: TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A BULLY
"[True Confessions of a Bully] was real. There were no weaknesses. I only see this as a positive program"
-Kinkaid School Principal
"Thank you for educating me on how to deal with bullies. I am tired of them bullying my sister with a disability."
-Audience Member- National Down Syndrome Association 2011 San Antonio, TX
"What a commendable job Dionysus does"
-Doctor Sadhwani - audience member
"Dionysus Theatre's True Confessions of a Bully is an authentic enactment of where students live... the hallways, lockers room, cafeteria, and buses of middle school. This one act play could not be more perfect appealing to students who experience the harsh words of classmates, that at times, make them feel unsafe. Each and every True Confessions character could be a student attending Cook Middle school. Our students could relate to the passionate and heartfelt performance of each actor. Cook's student audience responded to the performance by writing a letter to one of True Confessions' characters. Our students' responses were insightful and compassionate. Ms. Nowinski's incredible words as the play write are spot on. Her words are honest, poignant, at times painful, and worth the time taking students out of their regular curriculum to experience a real life lesson... the importance of treating their peers with dignity." – CYFAIR ISD Joyce Bontke, Counselor
"Im a bully. I need to change." - Liberty County Student