“…Empathizing with a protagonist allows the recipient to see themselves and their human value reflected in someone else, and "feel and experience to a more intense degree what it means to be a human being" (Lipps, 1903, p. 564), facilitating changes in perspective and fostering the development of new beliefs. Not surprisingly, theater has long been used to critique social issues and raise public awareness (e.g., "Theater of the Oppressed"; Boal, 1979) and is an effective tool to improve mental health knowledge (Kosyluk et al, 2018(Kosyluk et al, , 2021b and reduce stigma (Hawke et al, 2014;Massa et al, 2020;Michalak et al, 2014;Roberts et al, 2007;Skrine Jeffers et al, 2021). The types of theater performances in mental health stigma reduction work vary and include musicals and operas (Johnston, 2008;Kosyluk et al, 2018Kosyluk et al, , 2021bSherman et al, 2021;Skrine Jeffers et al, 2021;Walton, 2018), plays (Hawke et al, 2014;Michalak et al, 2014;Roberts et al, 2007;Wasmuth et al, 2022), playback theater and improvisation (Yotis et al, 2017), poetry, monologues, and comedy (Kosyluk et al, 2018(Kosyluk et al, , 2021a.…”