• 2025 - Alumni artist LaWanda Jackson is nominated for Outstanding Performer in a Comedy for Don't be a Hero, Thank You by the St. Louis Theater Circle Awards

   

• 2024 - Alumni artists Eric Satterfield, David Nonemaker, and PPA are nominated for Outstanding New Play for The Privilege of Being Second by the St. Louis Theater Circle Awards

   

• 2023 - PPA publishes Odysseys & Anthems a collection of original writing from PPA artists.

   

• 2023 - Artistic Director, Rachel Tibbetts, receives the “Community Impact Artist” St. Louis Visionary Award.

   

• 2022 - The documentary Prison Performing Arts: The Voice Within becomes available to stream on including Amazon Prime, Tubi, and Peacock. It takes a deeper look at incarcerated individuals for who they are as people, not just the crimes they committed, and navigates a two-week Prison Performing Arts workshop along with inmates at Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia, Missouri.

   

• 2021 - PPA is heavily featured in the book Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration. PPA remains the subject of numerous research projects on the efficacy of arts-in-prison rehabilitation work.

   

• 2020 - PPA receives the Focus St. Louis “What’s Right with the Region” Award for “Fostering Creativity for Social Change.”

   

• 2002 - NPR's This American Life with Ira Glass broadcasts a one-hour documentary on PPA’s work at MECC entitled "Act V."  

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