"Founded in 2020, FIPPP develops and presents solo performance stories by formerly incarcerated people. After presenting festivals in 2021 and 2023, and offering workshops and special events in 2022, the East Bay nonprofit embarked on a three-year residency with the nationally lauded theater company. In 2026, the culmination of their relationship is a four-day festival on Jan. 15-18. Five different shows feature solo performances by 12 formerly incarcerated people."
"FIPPP performers range from veterans of the stage-stand-up comedians, TEDx speakers, Moth winners, Shakespearean actors and more-to storytellers with new, freshly minted voices. Each individual speaks with clear intention, sharing prison and post-prison experiences and realities. The stories reveal hard-won success, reinvention and rise-above initiative in the face of opposing forces. Which means their stories are also filled with sobering truths about prison life and obstacles to reentry,"
FIPPP, founded in 2020, develops and presents solo performance stories by formerly incarcerated people. The East Bay nonprofit built a three-year residency with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, culminating in a four-day festival Jan. 15-18, 2026. The festival features five shows with 12 formerly incarcerated solo performers, short documentary films by Jim Granato, and three moderated post-show panels. The artistic team includes Berkeley Rep School of Theatre director Anthony Jackson, FIPPP co-founder Mark Kenward, and guest coaches and directors. Performers include seasoned stage veterans and new storytellers who convey prison and post-prison experiences with intentionality, revealing reinvention and sobering truths about reentry.
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