Stacey Picard has been involved with the Theatre Lab Life Stories program at N Street Village in Washington, DC since 2013, and has directed that program since 2015. She has also directed similar stories programs for formerly incarcerated women in a transitional re-entry program andmiddle school children in the inner-city of Cleveland, Ohio, including a program specifically designed to empower young women. Inspired by this work, she launched The Urban Stories Project in 2017. She holds a Masters degree from John Carroll University and a Certificate in Non-Profit Management from Case Western Reserve University. She is a graduate of the Theatre Lab’s Life Stories Institute, and has apprenticed under Thom Workman and Elizabeth Pringle. She has a lifelong passion for theatre and for community work, especially with the poor and marginalized, and has served on numerous boards of organizations supporting those communities. She has taught in the immigrant community of Northern Virginia since moving to the area in 2012, and is super excited to join the Ballou Story Project Team at Shout Mouse Press this year.

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