Ashley Lucas

Professor of Theater & Drama/Residential College, DCC co-PI, Co-Director DPEA Team. Ashley Lucas, who served as co-PI of Documenting Criminalization and Confinement from 2019-2021, is the co-director of the Documenting Prison Education and Arts team and former director of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Her book Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration (Bloomsbury, 2020) examines how incarcerated people all over the world use theatre to advocate for themselves and improve their lives.

Professor of Theater & Drama/Residential College, DCC co-PI, Co-Director DPEA Team. Ashley Lucas, who served as co-PI of Documenting Criminalization and Confinement from 2019-2021, is the co-director of the Documenting Prison Education and Arts team and former director of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Her book Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration (Bloomsbury, 2020) examines how incarcerated people all over the world use theatre to advocate for themselves and improve their lives.