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Freehold's Engaged Theatre Program

Teaching artists Daemond Arrindell and Carter Rodriquez helped eight inmates at Monroe Correctional Facility produce this original play through writing and theatre workshops at the prison for Engaged Theatre, a program by Freehold Theatre of Seattle.