End of Isolation Tour and Documentary

End of Isolation uses art & education to knit-together local campaigns across the country seeking to replace mass incarceration and solitary confinement with real safety and justice in their communities.

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25 PERFORMANCES

INFINITE IMPACT

We accomplished the impossible...

What's Next?

In the summer of 2022, nine people embarked on a two-month tour to 10 cities across the US, traveling 8,000 miles in a converted school bus to perform The BOX, a critically-acclaimed play about prison resistance, in communities on the frontlines of reimagining justice. In the words of D.C. theater critic John StoltenbergI cannot recall a theater experience that had a greater lock on the conscience of its audience. It was not just good theater, it was phenomenal.

The momentum from the tour is palpable and the movement to transform our carceral system unstoppable.  The End of Isolation Tour is being transformed into a feature length documentary.  Through our continued partnership with The Pulitzer Center the film will travel the country as impactful advocacy and communication tools. Join us!

We Did It!

Our tour bus hit the road in July 2022, visiting ten cities in two months.

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Who we are

First and foremost, we are humans. Many of us are humans who have experienced incarceration and the horrors of solitary confinement first-hand.

Together, we’re a team of organizers committed to creating an impact through transformative theater- -and transformative justice. On the tour, we will travel, eat, work, and live together in a converted school bus for two months as we bring The BOX to communities across the US. This makes us more than a team. We are friends. We are a chosen family. Together, we are strengthening a movement.

Individually we are professionals: award-winning authors, interdisciplinary artists, activists, actors, educators, chefs, and storytellers.

We are also artists, teachers, healers, mentors, parents, allies, founders, movement strategists and movement weavers. We change laws, save lives and shut down carceral facilities.

Get to know us! Check out our bios and explore our personal websites.

What We Do

As a part of our tour, the team visits universities, community organizations, and advocacy groups with a curriculum designed to educate and empower changemakers around solitary

We create a unique, strength-based opportunity to connect communities, bringing together those who have been impacted by a brutal and outdated system to community and survivor-led support systems.

We bring policy makers to the table and sometimes bring the show to the policy makers, whether it’s rehearsals in front of the White House or panel discussions around specific legislation

Each performance ends with a survivor-led healing circle, using the experience of the show and artistic ritual to focus on collective healing and restorative justice.

What We Do

As a part of our tour, the team visits universities, community organizations, and advocacy groups with a curriculum designed to educate and empower changemakers around solitary

We create a unique, strength-based opportunity to connect communities, bringing together those who have been impacted by a brutal and outdated system to community and survivor-led support systems.

We bring policy makers to the table and sometimes bring the show to the policy makers, whether it’s rehearsals in front of the White House or panel discussions around specific legislation

Each performance ends with a survivor-led healing circle, using the experience of the show and artistic ritual to focus on collective healing and restorative justice.

National Partners

The End of Isolation Tour would not be possible without our Presenting Sponsor, The Pulitzer Center; our National Sponsor Unlock The Box, and our Organizational Ally, Solitary Watch.

Community Partners

We’re honored and excited to partner with anti-solitary advocacy organizations across the United States. Together, we’re creating a borderless community committed to:

Dedication

In memory of Kalief Browder, Evan Ebel, Dannie Martin, Brian Nelson, Herman Wallace and all the others we’ve lost to the horror of solitary confinement.

With gratitude toward the people who shared their stories with us from solitary confinement, hugely contributing to this project:

And the survivors on the outside, who will never forget those they had to leave behind:

And family members: