ELIZABETH MALONE, MFA, is in the final stages of obtaining her RDT with DTILA. Elizabeth works with people impacted by incarceration, inside and outside of correctional facilities including directing and creating plays in men’s maximum-security prison, improvisational workshops for women in jail, and an after-school program for children impacted by incarceration. As an actor, director, teaching artist, and drama therapist based in Los Angeles, Elizabeth is passionate about bringing theater to unconventional spaces. Elizabeth received her BFA from NYU and MFA from Columbia University in Acting.

Kamran Afary is an Assistant Professor of Intersectional Identities and Relationships and a recipient of the 2016 Outstanding Lecturer Award at Cal State Los Angeles. Afary has incorporated Narradrama approaches in teaching courses in Communication studies; including: Interpersonal Communication and Health Communication at Lancaster Men’s Prison. He received his Registered Drama Therapy (RDT) certification in 2018 and teaches a training workshop for mental health professionals on Intersectionality at the Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles.  He is also an active member of the North American Drama Therapy Association. Afary is co-author of Iranian Diaspora Identities: Stories and Monologues (forthcoming 2020). He received his PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University in 2007. He is the author of Performance and Activism: Grassroots Discourse after the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992.

Lynn is a MFT Associate with a masters in counseling psychology and drama therapy at CIIS (California Institute of Integral Studies) in San Francisco. She uses drama therapy and expressive arts techniques as tools to enhance the healing process.

For the last four years, she has been working with individual clients and facilitating groups with incarcerated men and women using drama therapy techniques to access emotions, conflict resolution, enhance self-esteem and trust. In these groups, she works with a social justice framework and uses their personal stories and/or Shakespeare to access universal themes and to facilitate personal growth.

I'm Marianne Shine. I'm first generation American as my parents were both immigrants. I graduated from CIIS-  the California Institute of Integral Studies, with a Masters in Counseling Psychology. I am a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist and a Registered Drama Therapist and hold a certificate in Shakespeare from A.C.T. I completed the Hakomi Comprehensive (a somatic therapy), am an assistant trainer and am nearly fully certified. I have completed all three levels of EMDR training through the Parnell Institute and use this frequently in my practice with great results around trauma based issues. My clinical experience includes drama therapy at UCSF Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital, grief counseling at Hospice By The Bay and counseling at Elementary and Middle Schools. I direct Shakespeare plays with incarcerated men at San Quentin Prison through the Marin Shakespeare Company.