In recent years there has been an increasing interest in social concepts that might contribute to new advances on social intelligence and believability in agents. A key social concept in social interactions is social power. To explore the potential of social power in human-agent interactions we created an interactive virtual environment depicting a theatre company where the user plays the director role and the actor roles are played by agents with behaviors guided by social power decision mechanisms. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.0 [Artificial Intelligence]: General—Cognitive simula