Still Point facilitates theater workshops with women in Chicago-area detention centers including the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), Lake County Jail, and the Dwight Correctional Center.

These workshops are safe spaces for incarcerated women to tell their stories, build community, and explore together. At the end of a three- to four-month process, participants present an original performance for invited guests, prison volunteers, and their fellow inmates that provides a forum to express their views, and share with their experiences and challenges, as 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 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