Illinois Youth Center

SBB | Audubon Youth Development Center, Spring 2017

Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice
Illinois Youth Center – Chicago, IL

Shakespeare Behind Bars believes it is imperative to create transformational programs that provide incarcerated and at-risk youth with the tools they need to work towards a future outside correctional institutions and thereby reduce the rate of youth who will commit crimes that could lead to their spending their adult lives behind bars.

The Shakespeare Behind Bars juvenile programs employ the same vision, mission, values, and techniques that have proven successful in the adult program founded in 1995 at the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in La Grange, KY.

 

First program 2019.

 

Second program 2020. 

Due to COVID restrictions, the program was entirely virtual.

The JJ Effect
Jason Boulware, Filmmaker
2020 Documentary

True to Yourself

 

Third program 2021.

The program was face to face.

The JJ Effect
Jason Boulware, Filmmaker
2021 Documentary

Life Thru My Eyes

 

Fourth program 2022.

The program was face to face.

The JJ Effect
Jason Boulware, Filmmaker
2022 Documentary

To be or Not To Be: That is the Question

 

Fifth program 2023.

The program was face to face.

The JJ Effect
Jason Boulware, Filmmaker
2023 Documentary

A Plague on Your Houses

 

Our program at Illinois Youth Center – Chicago made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, Shakespeare in American Communities, Juvenile Justice Program, and administered by Arts Midwest.

Funding for Fifth Season was also provided by The Buck Foundation.