May, Betty

Betty May is a theatrical director, a writer, a high school teacher, a circus coach, and a clown. Her career in theater has taken her across the United States; to Europe, where she toured England, France and Switzerland with her Teens Onstage troupe; and to Central America, where she founded a company of ninety street children in a Guatemalan squatters' settlement. She has no professional experience in the criminal justice system, nor does she have any academic credentials in the field. She went into the prison in response to a somewhat bizarre request: write a comedy about life in prison. Six...