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This session is part of the 4th International Shakespeare in Prisons Conference (SiPC4) and was originally posted on Friday, November 13th, 2020. Find out more about #SiPC4 at https://shakespeare.nd.edu/service/sh....

SESSION DESCRIPTION:
Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration: Author Ashley Lucas Interviews a Panel of Prison Theatre Program Directors (Session 3 of 3)

When conducting research for her new book "Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration" (Methuen Drama, 2020), Ashley Lucas traveled throughout ten different countries to observe as many theatre companies inside of prisons as she could. The directors on this panel represent prison theatre companies in Canada, the United States, Australia, South Africa, and Brazil. They discuss the challenges of making theatre in prisons before and during the global pandemic.

CONTRIBUTORS:
Ashley Lucas is Associate Professor of Theatre & Drama, the Residential College, the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, and English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan (UM).

Maud Clark is the co-founder of Somebody’s Daughter Theatre, and has been the principal director and writer of many highly successful theatre works both inside and outside of the Victorian women’s prison.

Viviane Narvaes is currently an adjunct professor at Unirio and Head of the Department of Theater Education. She coordinates, in partnership with other teachers, the Culture in Prison Extension Program and also Fuga Coletiv@, a theater group which involves students and people who live in open prisons (i.e. prisons which allow inhabitants to leave during the day for work or school).

Frannie Shepherd-Bates is an accomplished prison theatre practitioner, director, educator, and grant writer. She is the founder and director of Shakespeare in Prison, Detroit Public Theatre's signature community program.

Kate Rubin is a theatre artist in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Over the past 15 years she has worked in the capacity as a director, performer, facilitator, and writer with William Head on Stage (WHoS) Theatre Company. WHoS is an inmate run theatre company that exists within a men’s prison at William Head Federal Institution.

Johnny Stallings is Executive Director of The Open Road, which is a Learning Community (openroadpdx.org). From 2006 to 20019, he went to Oregon prisons every week, where he facilitated meaning of life dialogues and directed eight plays--seven of which were by Shakespeare. Open Hearts Open Minds, the nonprofit organization Johnny started in 2006, continues to do Arts and Education programs in three Oregon prisons, under the leadership of Carla Grant (https://openheartsopenminds.net/).

Dr. Miranda Young-Jahangeer is the current Academic Leader for Teaching and Learning at University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa but is based academically in the Drama and Performance Studies programme. Her research is primarily in the area of Applied Theatre, Prison Theatre, African popular performance, Critical pedagogy, gender and identity. She has an ongoing participatory theatre programme in Westville Female Correctional Centre which has been running since 2000.