Lisa Biggs, PhD, is a Performance Studies and Africana Studies scholar, a playwright, and actress. Originally from the Southside of Chicago, she currently serves as an associate professor in the Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre at Brown University. In addition to her many plays, she is the author of the award-winning critical ethnography, The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation (Ohio State University Press, 2022).