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Direct linkFisher, Maisha T.; Purcell, Susie Spear; May, Rachel – English Education, 2009
This article examines relationships among process, product, and playmaking in a southeastern playwriting and performance program for teen girls, Playmaking for Girls (PFG). The authors have chosen to focus on tensions between process and product. Such tensions are present in the challenges teachers experience when privileging student-centered…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Playwriting, Creative Writing, Program Effectiveness
Fisher, Maisha T. – English Education, 2008
Playmaking for Girls, founded by Rachel May and directed by Susie Spear Purcell, assembles a diverse ensemble of teaching artists committed to using playwriting and performance to help with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated teen girls to help them "think and thus act for themselves" (Freden, 2001, p. 70). These teaching artists, with the…
Descriptors: Females, Prevention, Juvenile Justice, Delinquency Prevention
