We’re celebrating 14 years of The Phoenix Players Theatre Group!
In honor of our anniversary, please consider contributing to help PPTG do even more in the years to come.
The PPTG Motto
Each evening’s workshop begins with the PPTG Motto, written by one of the founding members of the group, Michael Shane Hale
We are a community of transformation.
Through the power of self discovery,
We create the opportunity
To know and grow
Into ourselves.
“In 2009 Michael Rhynes and Clifford Williamson, incarcerated men in the Auburn Correctional Facility in central New York, founded the Auburn Phoenix Players. Shortly thereafter, the two renamed the company to form The Phoenix Players Theatre Group (PPTG). They did this because they both realized that, while they were “in” Auburn, they were not “of” Auburn. In the founders’ own words, “PPTG is a grassroots program developed by and forincarcerated persons and communities in a maximum security prison. It is a transformative theatre community, which utilizes theatre to reconnect incarcerated people to their full humanity” (Phoenix Players Theatre Group 2014a).” -Excerpt from “Where the Walls Contain Everything but the Sky: The Birth and Growth of the Phoenix Players Theatre Group”
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