Jan Cohen-Cruz—See Me

Name: Jan Cohen-Cruz—See Me
Start: 2024-10-07T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-07T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Labyrinth Books Princeton

Schedule

Mon Oct 07 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Labyrinth Books Princeton | Princeton, NJ

See Me: Prison Theater Workshops and Love is 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 of a workshop. 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, in each other, in the future they imagined together, and in 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 is a former Professor of Drama at NYU and founder of the department’s 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 include Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965–2020, 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.
This event is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books, Princeton University’s Humanities Council, Princeton University’s Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship, The School of International & Public Affairs in NJ, and the Department of African American Studies.