Rhodessa Jones founded and still directs the Medea Project, a theater program for incarcerated women. Jones believes that by engaging incarcerated women in the process of developing and staging dramatic works based on their own stories, she can push them toward tapping into thei…
""This ain't no Dreamgirls,"" Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs. Her expectations are grounded in reality, tempered, for example, by the fact that women are the fastest growing populati…
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Fraden explores artist Rhodessa Jones' theater work with incarcerated women, known as the Medea project. Balancing narrative and commentary, Fraden chronicles the process of turning inmates personal stories into public performance.