About Us
“Changing your business through theatre” is a workshop that helps people in the customer driven environment to build their confidence, interpersonal abilities and other soft skills using theatre.
This workshop is all about helping you to better your people skills and daily interactions with customers and potential clients - pushing you out of your comfort zone to gain the confidence you need to speak in public, to be bold, engaging and inspiring.In theatre we're always presenting, speaking text or lines that are delivered to have an effect, to influence people, to persuade them or inspire them or challenge them, which are the same techniques used to win over new clients and keep existing ones.
Preparation is key in both the theatre environment and the customer oriented environment.
To become familiar with the lines, we have to know what we're saying, to whom and why, but we have to practice our communication skills in a rehearsal room where we can try things out and discover different ways of doing things.
This is the opportunity that the workshop presents to customer related clients, to help their staff understand the importance of building a clear communication channel between the customer attendant and the customer. This is done through of exercises that have been developed to better enhance the communication skills of the customer attendant.
Throughout the workshop we will use simple and effective exercises which will encourage you to be yourself, with more confidence and skills. These are the skills which will help you to grow as a customer oriented service provider which will help enhance your personal performance in the working environment.
Our Founder
Luntu Masiza is the first AFDA Live Performance student out of two nominations at the school to win the prestigious Fleur Du Cup award (2018) for the year 2017. It is no small achievement to scoop the award in a first round of nominations when you do not come from a traditionally acknowledged training center.
In April 2018, Luntu won another award in Czech Republic, the Setkani/Encounter Theatre Director’s Special Award for his performance in The Island, directed by Chris Weare . Only five awards were made at this festival in which 12 highly reputable international schools participated: actor [SA] actress [Israel], scenographer [Czech Republic], costume design [Germany] and new writing [Scotland]. The award was given to Luntu for his personal acting statement and significant ethic insight into totalitarian tendencies and racism within the society in broader context expressed in the synergy with his acting partner and fellow AFDA alumni Siya Mayola. The Island was recently staged at the National Arts Festival, Luntu Masiza and Siya Mayola have recently won the Standard Bank Ovation Awards, an award given for outstanding work presented on The Fringe at the festival.
While in the UK, Luntu Masiza was involved in training programs such as the Director’s course at the Young Vic Theatre, The Soho Theatre Writers Lab and a training programme run by BBC with Mamma Youth. In 2015 he was a cameraman for broadcast magazine, Masiza wrote “After Freedom”, which was performed at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland in August 2015 under the direction of Morgan Njobo. He also had the opportunity to showcase two of his 15 minutes plays, Status 319 and Ubudoda which were performed in West End London. Ubudoda, written, directed and starring Masiza, was redeveloped as a full-length play and featured in Baxter’s Zabalaza Festival 2016 where it won. “Ubudoda” won Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor. It was later performed at Cape Town Fringe Festival in September (2016) and was co-directed by Chris Weare after being chosen as one of Zabalaza Theatre Festival’s outstanding productions in 2016.“Ubudoda” won Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor.
Recent roles ‘Christian’ in Ruined by Lynn Nottage, directed by Lara Bye (3rd year AFDA production), ‘Skuwit’ in Horn of Sorrow directed by Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi (2nd Year AFDA production), ‘Luthando’ in Ubudoda directed by Luntu Masiza & Chris Weare (Cape Town Fringe Festival), ‘The Porter’ in Macbeth directed by William Straford (Dudley College) and ‘Paris’ in Romeo and Juliet directed by Vicky Roberts & Pamelia Williams (1st Chance Youth Theatre at the Birmingham Rep).
He’s had the opportunity to experience different aspects of performing arts ranging from acting, scriptwriting, producing and directing. He was a co- founder of a production company called ‘Kmedia Films’ in London and he recently started a new company “Changing Your Business Through Theatre” which focuses on facilitating workshops in customer driven environments to build staff confidence, interpersonal abilities and other soft skills through theatre skills.