‘Sing Sing’: Read The Screenplay Based On A Real-Life Theater Program For Incarcerated Men
deadline.comThe Colman Domingo-starring Sing Sing is the latest installment in Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series that highlights the script behind this year’s most-talked about movies in awards season.
The Greg Kwedar-directed film from A24 is based on the true story of John “Divine G” Whitfield (Domingo), who’s imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit but finds purpose by acting in a theater group alongside other incarcerated men like Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin (who plays himself).
The movie also stars Sean San José, Sean “Dino” Johnson, Jon Adrian “JJ” Velazquez and Paul Raci. The prisoners were part of program called RTA, or Rehabilitation Through the Arts.
Launched at New York’s Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 1996, RTA has grown from a single theater workshop to a comprehensive arts program in multiple prisons in the state and is a world leader in arts-in-prison programming, the organization said.
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