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This week: Host Bobbee Zeno talks with playwright Leonard Manzella
From 1968 to 1983, Leonard Manzella lived in Italy and worked as an actor in the Italian film industry. Manzella returned to the U.S. in 1983 and trained as a psychodramatist under the tutelage of renowned psychologist-criminologist, Dr. Lewis Yablonsky. Inspired by that work, he went on to earn a master’s degree in social work from USC in 1989 and has been a practicing psychotherapist ever since. In 1999, he designed and directed the AVERT project, an emotional intelligence program aimed at teaching correctional officers empathy to avert institutional violence. In 2003, he contracted with the California Department of Corrections and began working with mentally ill inmates at state prisons, where he gained a deeper understanding of the dynamics of violence within our correctional systems. Manzella’s latest endeavor, this time as an emerging playwright, is CAGES, based on his work treating mentally ill inmates held in Administrative Segregation at a California state prison. Learn more about Leonard Manzella here and here. CAGES is playing at The Matrix Theatre in Hollywood through July 15th. Click here for more information.
