Some examples of this work are:

Parks Board work
The National Parks' Board employed Ellis & Bheki create a theatre piece and train a group of actors who came from the tribal areas surrounding the Kruger National Park (KNP). The piece was based on the history of the KNP and the aim was to give employment to local communities by their performing to tourists.

The KZN Conservation Board similarly made use of Ellis and Bheki's skills as trainers of teachers. They performed in the schools surrounding the game reserves and then worked with the teachers encouraging them to use theatre as a method of enlivening other curricular subjects. The project was sponsored by The Southern Life Foundation.

Performances In Economically Depressed Schools
Through the generosity of sponsors, Ellis and Bheki have often performed their work in schools where the audience does not have to pay for the performance. The aims behind this scheme are to introduce children to theatre for the first time, to educate and to entertain.

Self Empowerment Theatre Scheme (SETS)
The aim of this project is to train young people as actors so that they can realistically begin to earn a living by creating and performing theatre which is relevant in its style and content in South Africa today.

The first SETS project was run by Bheki, at his own expense. He trained three young men and created a piece called SITTING ROUND THE FIRE. Since their first performance in 1997, they have continued to earn a living by performing this piece of theatre around SA. Because of the skills gained from this project, they have been employed by other organizations and theatre groups.

The second SETS project was sponsored by The Southern Life Foundation. A group of five young would-be performers were trained over a period of six weeks. A theatre piece called THE MEALIE FIELD resulted from this collaboration with Bheki & Ellis. It was performed twice daily for a month in township schools. These young people were able to earn their first salary thanks to the sponsorship. The impact of this salary on the families of the actors was significant.

The third SETS project was sponsored by the National Arts' Council of SA (NAC). Over the period of a month Ellis and Bheki worked with an already existing community group from Fredville in KZN. This group was already concerned with the upliftment of their own community and the theatre skills they gained together with the new piece they created helped them to increase their impact in their the community. Furthermore, they began to bring much needed money into their community by performing for tourists.

"A further SETS programme in Fredville, working with the same group, was sponsored by FirstRand. This project ran intensively in 2000 and has regular follow up sessions throughout 2001. The group performs an adapted an expanded version of KABOOM for local school and community groups as well as at various venues on the 1000 Hills Tourism route."

THE LUBOMBO SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE CULTURAL PROGRAMME has been initiated in the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park area through an inter-departmental process with the National Department of Art, Culture, Science and Technology (DACST), KZN Department of Education and Culture, the National Department of Environment and Tourism and the KZN Economic Council. This cultural programme aims to develop the capacity and skill of the region's artists, facilitate the development of entrepreneurs in the cultural industry and contribute towards the process of recovering and remembering local tradition and indigenous knowledge through the performance, presentation and documentation of oral history.

Ellis and Bheki led the theatre and story telling aspects of this project and created two pieces of African street theatre with two separate groups from the area. The project ran from January - May 2001, after which the groups were empowered to perform and be self employed within their own communities. The project culminated in the performance of the works at the International Tourism Indaba held at the ICC in Durban in April 2001. The works are now being performed in tourist venues in KZN.