The house where our stories live

How storytelling in different mediums can affect scale, audience, and impact

Sarah Shourd
Nov 5 · 8 min read
The BOX, a play about solitary confinement, performed at San Francisco’s Z Space in 2016. Photo by Todd Sanchioni.

It is the ninth performance of the world premiere of my play, The BOX, and the screaming and banging has been getting to me. My play, based on stories I collected from people in solitary confinement in prisons across the U.S., was a culmination of years of investigative work. Thus…

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Sarah Shourd

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Sarah Shourd is a multi-media, award-winning journalist, storyteller and former JSK Knight Fellow based in Oakland, California.

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