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The Persephone Project

Still Point Theatre Collective facilitates theatre workshops with women in four detention centers in and around the Chicago area: the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), the Salvation Army Halfway House, Lake County Jail, and the Dwight Correctional Center.

These workshops are safe spaces for incarcerated women, where they can be free to tell their stories, build community, and explore together. At the end of a three to four month process, the participants present a performance, written by themselves, for invited guests, prison volunteers, and their fellow inmates. This performance gives them a forum to express their views, and an opportunity to share with the larger community the experiences and challenges of incarcerated women.

Allow us to share with you two comments, one from a former workshop participant who now works on our board, and one from a jail administrator:

"I can not begin to tell you how important those sessions were to me and the rest of the group. It was the one time we were able to interact together in a constructive, non-competitive way. I saw my fellow inmates in an entirely new light, as creative, intelligent women. The classes were both freeing and empowering. Still Point brought us color, light and imagination. I can honestly say that Lisa and her group enriched not only my prison experience but my life."
-Roberta Ashley Board Member Former Workshop Participant

"Still Point Theatre is courageous in its efforts to make a difference in the lives of our inmates and our community... The creativity of this project, along with the skills and enthusiasm of the people involved, are very effective and are slowly breaking the many complex barriers of incarcerated female inmates, who are so often depleted of hope and motivation."
-Rick Riddle Program Manager Lake County Jail