See Me: Prison Theater Workshops and Love [Hardcover]

Encounters, transformations, and reflections from in-prison and post-release theater workshops

See Meis a collection of intimate dialogues about collective experiences in the context of prison theater workshops. Each essay is a collaboration between two or three people who connected profoundly in the temporary community that a workshop can create. Part I is an exchange grounded in the prison theater workshop between the author and one of the incarcerated participants. They alternately tell the story of what they found in the workshop, each other, the future they imagined together, and the social turmoil and utopian aspirations of the times. Part II consists of essays jointly written by eight other people impacted by close relationships spawned in diverse in-prison and re-entry theater workshops.

Jan Cohen-Cruz (Author, Editor)
Jan Cohen-Cruz is a former professor of drama at NYU and founder of the departments applied theater minor. As a past director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, she co-founded its journal, Public. Her numerous books includeMeeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 19652020, by Those Who Lived It, Local Acts, Engaging Performance, Remapping Performance, and two co-edited texts on Augusto Boal. Cohen-Cruz was director of field research for A Blade of Grass and an ATHE awardee for Leadership in Community-Based Theatre and Civic Engagement. She currently teaches at Touchstone Theatre/Moravian University.

As a professional Prison Arts Practitioner, with a career spanning 40+ years of working
intimately from the center of marginalized communities that society often labels as outcasts,
outlaws, and outsiders, I discovered myself and my work within the pages by Jan Cohen-Cruz
and her cohort of collaborative authors in their stunning book,See Me: Prison TheaterWorkshops and Love.

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