This workshop is a cross-pollination between social research and narrative practices in theater and anthropology. Affect Theater creates a dialogue between these disciplines in a laboratory format, using theatrical techniques to engage empirical questions and material. Rather than merely enacting or performing ethnographic findings, we put the elements of the stage (lights, sets, objects, sound, bodies etc.) into conversation with our research material. Students will learn an interdisciplinary approach to anthropological research questions, and they will experiment with translating ethnographic material into short theatrical episodes, placing text-based research into relationship with the other elements of the stage.