E81- Broadway, Bars & Fortune

A CONVERSATION WITH DR. SHUVENDU SEN

In this Short Fuse conversation, Elizabeth Howard talks with Dr. Shuvendu Sen, director and producer of Broadway, Bars & Fortune. The documentary showcases how theater and the arts can serve as powerful tools for healing and redemption among formerly incarcerated individuals. Broadway, Bars & Fortune focuses a lens on David Rothenberg, the well-known Broadway theater producer and the organization he founded, the Fortune Society, one of the country's leading organizations working with the formerly incarcerated as they learn to adapt to a life beyond bars. An estimated two million individuals are incarcerated in federal and state prisons, and local jails in the United States. The largest number in the world.

The Short Fuse Podcast  hosted by Elizabeth Howard, are conversations with artists, writers, musicians, and others who have a lens on contemporary thought and stir us to seek change. Through their art, music, performances, and singular vision they lead us through the social and environmental transformations sweeping across the globe. Gerald Kent, a musician and audio engineer based in Cape Town, South Africa, is the producer of the Short Fuse..

“Artists are here to disturb the peace.” James Baldwin.

The Short Fuse is distributed through the Arts Fuse, a journal of arts criticism and commentary.

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