The Voices Inside Festival | April 2-6, 2025

This festival is a collaboration of Voices Inside, Ivette Dumeng of Nylon Fusion Theater Company, and Pen America. For more information go to VoicesInside.org Voices Inside is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Nancy Friday Foundation. We are also working in association with the PEN AMERICA incarcerated writer program. Special Thanks to Theater Lab. In Memory of Lanie Zipoy.

 

About: Voices Inside is an outreach program of Pioneer Playhouse, now in its 15th year, Voices Inside strives to use creativity to promote empathy, humanity, and raise communication skills and self esteem behind bars so as to fight recidivism. We teach writing and performance skills and those in our program have seen their words sail beyond the razor wire and have gone on to win the Pen America award and other national playwriting contests. PEN America, founded in 1922 and headquartered in New York City, is a nonprofit organization that works to defend and celebrate free expression in the United States and worldwide through the advancement of literature and human rights.