Labre Fulcher showed up at Richard Hoehler's acting class at Otisville State prison a few weeks before he was to be released. He expressed his regret that he hadn't known of the class sooner and so did Hoehler who recognized a gifted artist when he saw one. But Labre was given an opportunity to continue the work he started when, upon his release he joined Acting Out where he performed in two online productions this past year. In this podcast Labre will present excerpts from those performances – Ben in Clifford Odets' Paradise Lost and Kevin Davis in The Dilemma, an original piece penned by Bill Blount, who created the piece while he served time at Otisville. Labre also shares his feelings about and deep connection with The Dilemma, how it mirrored his own life, imprisonment, and multiple parole hearings, and how he, like the character in the piece, underwent a powerful transformation while incarcerated – a transformation that continues to bring deep meaning to his life and the lives of others he now helps on a daily basis.
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