Witness Theater

Director and Facilitator

Witness Theatre is an intergenerational therapeutic theatre program that brings together holocuast survivors and adolescents for a 9 month program each year. During the program meaningful relationships are created by passing down the stories of the holocaust using drama therapy tecniques. Once these stories are told a play is written, the group enters into the rehearsal process, and a performance occurs at the end. The adolescents play the young versions of the survivors while the survivors are often on stage narrating their own story. Jessica has been facilitating this incredible program for the last 7 years.