In a recently published Teaching Artist Journal article, Cornell Department of professor Bruce A. Levitt and graduate student Nick Fesette write about how "practicing collaborative prison theatre to cope with traumatic experiences constitutes a pedagogy of self-narrating, self-teaching, and self-humanizing."
"The Phoenix Players Theatre Group (PPTG) is a performance collective founded by incarcerated men and located in a maximum-security prison [Auburn Correctional Facility] with the aim of creating a space where they can be witnessed and where they can initiate a process of personal, cultural, and sociopolitical transformation. In the words of the group's founders, 'It is a transformative theatre community, which utilizes theatre to reconnect incarcerated people to their full humanity.'"
Read the full article in the Teaching Artist Journal.
