New Collision Project connects criminal justice with theater at Kennesaw State

The New Connections Collision Project — inspired by the Alliance Theatre’s Palefsky Collision Project — combines the most unlikely subjects of criminal justice and theater at Kennesaw State University.

For this year’s project, KSU students performed the play “Long Way Down” for a special group of Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice youths and found the process to be transformative in the most unexpected ways.

Margaret Pendergrass is a senior lecturer of theater and performance studies at the College of the Arts at Kennesaw State University. Marlon Burnley is an assistant professor of theater at the College of the Arts at KSU, and Rodney Williams is an assistant stage manager at the Alliance Theatre. In this interview, all three joined “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes to talk about the project.