Scenes from the ex-prisoner performing arts show "From Prison to the Stage" at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (presented as part of the Stage-to-Page Festival at the Kennedy Center) on September 1, 2007.

Produced by the Prisons Foundation in association with the American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capital Area, Drug Policy Alliance, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, Grace Episcopal Church, and Prison Art Gallery, with additional support from Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, Art Appreciation Foundation, The Sentencing Project, Welcome Home Program, The Justice Policy Institute, First Trinity Lutheran Church, Robert Novotny, Lloyd Rubin, Horton Dance! Inc., Inner Ear Studios, Universal Madness, and ACLU National Prison Project.

"From Prison to the Stage" stars 1 WISE AFRICAN (AKA JOSEPH BRIGGS), LAMONT CAREY, RINGO FERNANDEZ, HARRY “CUPCAKE” COLEMAN, MALINDA DIX-HUNT, ELISA FERNANDEZ-ARIAS, JOE SHADE, DENNIS SOBIN, MICHAEL YUGO, HORTON DANCE!, INNER VOICES, RICO JEROME, RON KEMP, MUDPIE, and ANTHONY NEWLON.

(Special thanks to photographer Judy Presson and to Gregg Henry and Julia Stemper of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.)





























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