"The Healing Stage makes the powerful claim that prison performance programs not only serve to enhance the self-worth of incarcerated women, but also provide a space for enacting worlds full of greater justice, collaboration, respect, and Freedom. Moving across disciplines and practices, Biggs unites disparate intellectual, artistic, and activist communities." —Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, author of Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment
“Biggs’s writing comes alive in her case studies––especially in moments when her mixed participant/observational status leads to a confession of her own fears or deeper connections with the directors and the women participants.” —Rena Fraden, author of Imagining Medea: Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women and Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre, 1935–1939