The Second Step Players theatre troupe creates and performs educational sketch comedy about mental health issues for the purpose of educating the public and reducing stigma. The Players have been ambassadors in community education and advocacy since 1985.

The Second Step Players are approved for the New England States Touring Program. If you would like to hire us to perform, click here to find more information.

The Second Step Players Touring Theater Troupe performs nationally to spread the word that Recovery Happens and Creativity Heals.  The skits, musical parodies, and stand up comedy illuminate the experience of living with a mental illness. 

Second Step Players productions are professional-quality theater primarily written, produced, directed, and acted by individuals with mental illnesses.  The Players’ 25-year body of work also includes plays by talented community writers like Kato McNickle, Anna Mara Trusky, Frederick Vaughn and Donna Mansfield.  
Spreading their positive messages of hope and recovery both locally and nationally enables The Second Step Players to have a powerful impact on a very large number of people.  After each public performance, the Players engage in a lively Q & A with the audience which deepens the experience, as they reveal their diagnosis and share their story of how engaging in the creative arts has helped rebuild their lives.

The Second Step Players perform for:

• Colleges (for Psychology, Counseling, Psychiatry and Nursing programs)
• Mental Health Conferences
• Civic organizations
• Public audiences

• The Spirit of Broadway Theater
• The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
• The Donald Oat Theater

Photos From Second Step Players Shows