Red Ladder Theatre Connects Inmates With Their Creativity
by David John Chavez It?s rare to hear of a prisoner pleading with a judge to postpone their release date. For Karen Altree Piemme, that request, from an inmate participating in Red Ladder Theatre Company?s improvisation class a few years ago, spoke to a much larger life lesson that might not have been discovered without theatre education. This inmate and his classmates had spent weeks rehearsing for their fina…