Fall Touring dates: September 11, 2025–November 28, 2025
Spring Touring dates: January 5, 2026–May 29, 2026
Schedule a social-emotional learning assembly for your school today!
Pets! by Melanie Godsey
NEW for the 2025–2026 school year.
It’s a tail-wagging time at Pet School, where Biscuit the pup and all their furry and feathered friends learn to sit, stay, and help a human in need. When things get ruff for Biscuit’s best human friend, Corey, it’s time to fetch help. A once-close friendship has gone to the dogs, and the bus stop becomes a bullying zone. Using every paws-itively clever trick from Pet School, Biscuit will stop at nothing to help Corey and teach the other kids that being an upstander is the best trick of all.
1-hour presentation including performance and actor-led talkback.
Bullying prevention
Turning bystanders into upstanders
Overcoming failure
Teamwork
Rocks! by Melanie Godsey
Returning for the 2025–2026 school year.
S’mores, stargazing, swimming—Jamie’s family promises him that Camp Obsidian is a hidden gem. And when he makes friends with Casey on the first day, he knows this camp could rock. But when Casey’s jealousy spreads like poison ivy, Jamie gets caught between a rock and a hard place. Is Jamie really being bullied? Or is it all a harmless prank? The other campers and Jasper, the down-to-earth counselor, will leave no stone unturned to make it the best summer ever.
1-hour presentation including performance and actor-led talkback.
Bullying Prevention
How to be an Upstander
Celebrating Differences
Empathy
We are still finalizing our script selection of the 6–12 grade level show for the 2025–2026 school year. If you would like to be notified of our show selection as soon as it’s been decided, please email touring@taproottheatre.org.
Story of an Off-Brand Band by Michelle Lang-Raymond
Returning for a limited time during the 2025–2026 school year.
Everyone’s ready to rock and roll to the sound of the American dream—except one. When the members of The Preamble go on tour, the band is living the dream, except that the guitarist is treated differently. If each of them truly matters, then this band has a decision to make. In this poignant metaphor for Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech, the band must figure out how and if the show will go on.
1-hour presentation including performance and actor-led talkback.
Excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1963 speech:
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.” But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
45-minute presentation streamed through Vimeo. Unlimited, private access within your school for a set period of time.
For Grades K–5
For Grades 6–12
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Since 1985, Taproot Theatre Company’s Road Company has been bringing professional-level theatre directly into schools across Washington State. They serve more than 75,000 students in grades K–12 annually with our dynamic bullying prevention plays—designed to educate, empower, and inspire.
Each year, our scripts are updated to reflect the evolving challenges students face, including:
Our scripts are guided by Second Step Curriculum.
Taproot Theatre acknowledges that we live, work and play on the unceded and traditional territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, specifically the Duwamish, and that we occupy this land. This acknowledgement does not take the place of authentic relationships with Indigenous communities but serves as a first step in honoring the land we occupy and resisting the erasure of Indigenous past, present and future.