Acting Out: How A Prison Theatre Workshop Broke Free

When Richard Hoehler first walked through the doors of a medium security prison in upstate New York, he assumed it would be a one-time thing. As a busy freelance writer, actor and teacher he had nonetheless agreed to drive upstate to teach an acting class for inmates pro bono. At the very least he hoped the experience might give him new ideas for his teaching on the outside.
What he could not have anticipated was the beginning of an odyssey that led Hoehler to an incredibly popular series of...