Nikki Weaver, Co-Founder and former Education Director leads the Apprentice Solo Show work. This year with a mix of virtual classes that began in January and then moved to in person in April at the Playhouse. The creation of solo shows is deeply personal, and revealing this 5 month process takes an artist through identity, family dynamics, and ultimately uncovers what the voice and body need to say now. It's a journey that changes moment to moment, and the process is often gruelling. This year's company through themselves into the discovery of this work working against a world pandemic to dig in deep.

 

These days you can find Nikki building On The Inside, a nonprofit that works to build creative connections for incarcerated women and women on the outside through theatre, storytelling, and healing arts. On The Inside currently serves adults that are incarcerated in three states, and is growing to serve worldwide. This summer, Nikki will travel to Kenya to work alongside Girls on Fire in Lunga Lunga to pilot a program that serves mothers and daughters creatively through voice, body, and healing arts. On The Inside will then take this knowledge to build out our work here in the US as we look at how many mothers in our country are serving time, and how this affects the family long term.

 

website: ontheinside.space

instagram: @ontheinside2