Laura Gosheff, co-founder of Phoenix Project NYC, and I were talking the other day about the use of the term "At-Risk"as it pertains to the women and girls we aim to serve through LET THE PHOENIX RISE! and our therapeutic theater workshops. We agree there is a pejorative and misleading quality to this term, as it implies that women and girls who...
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” ― C.G. Jung
As I child I succumbed to selective mutism. That and living in my head were responses to living in a household in which violence and other forms of insanity were a daily occurrence. Nevertheless, the arts sustained me. My father was a painter and a writer. It was understood I was to be the proverbial ‘audience’, but I also wanted to bring those deepest...
Recently I was tested. The seductive lures of grandiosity and acclaim competed with the integrity of my vision with Phoenix Project NYC
Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside you that you didn’t dare let them escape in case they blew you wide open? Have you ever been so angry that you couldn’t look in the mirror for fear of finding the face of evil glaring back at you?―
On Sunday October 28, 2012 Phoenix Project NYC founders Laura Gosheff and Sheri Heller had the privilege of facilitating a full day comprehensive creative arts workshop for a group of women courageous in their willingness to give creative...
We are very excited to present our promo for The Phoenix Project NYC, featuring excerpts from LET THE PHOENIX RISE! Produced and Directed by Daniel Neiden
Cinematography by Nick Lopez
Edited by Nick Lopez and Daniel Neiden
Sound and Lighting...
At my final MFA residency at St. John’s College just outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, we are discussing Cormac McCarthy, Richard Rodriguez, the art of rhetoric, describing smell. The one thing we are not discussing this week, oddly, is the Olympics.
