HIDDEN VOICES Plays John Jay College's Lynch Theatre, 11/14

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College continues the Fall 2009 Season The Art of Justice Series, which integrates the performing arts and issues on justice with HIDDEN VOICES on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 2pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC. 
 
This season the Gerald W. Lynch Theater launches a new JustIce Theatre Festival, which showcases new plays that address themes of justice. The theme for Fall 2009 is FLESH & BLOOD: Justice and the Family.
 
HIDDEN VOICES is comprised of true stories of abandonment, drug abuse, loss, imprisonment, healing and freedom voiced by the people who lived them.  Four mothers, three men and a nine-year-old girl relate the struggles of a life scarred by incarceration. Directed by Carli Gaughf and made possible by Hour Children and Prison Fellowship.

Carli Gaughf has directed and produced theater at the American Theatre of Actors, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Taconic Correctional Facility and most recently the new play Las Catrinas, inspired and performed by formerly incarcerated women. She has trained with the Cornerstone Theater Community and Urban Bush Women.

Admission is $15 (CUNY Students FREE).  For tickets, call Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 or visit www.ticketcentral.com.
 
Since opening its doors in 1988, the Gerald W. Lynch Theater has been an invaluable cultural resource for John Jay College and the larger New York City community.  Under the new direction of Executive Director Shannon R. Mayers, the Theater is dedicated to the creation and presentation of performing arts programming of all disciplines with a special focus on how the artistic imagination can shed light on the many perceptions of justice in our society.
 
About John Jay College of Criminal Justice: An international leader in educating for justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York offers a rich liberal arts and professional studies curriculum to upwards of 14,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 135 nations.  In teaching, scholarship and research, the College approaches justice as an applied art and science in servIce To society and as an ongoing conversation about fundamental human desires for fairness, equality and the rule of law.  For more information, visit www.jjay.cuny.edu.

For more information, visit www.jjay.cuny.edu/theater.php.

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