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Media

Television appearances, radio interviews, podcasts, and press coverage featuring Jean Trounstine and her work.

As Featured In

The Boston Globe
NPR
WBUR Radio Boston
The Today Show
David Pakman Show
Boston Magazine
Dig Boston
HuffPost
Truthout
BINJ
Boston Herald
Solstice Lit Mag
San Francisco Chronicle

TV & Video
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Radio & Podcasts
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Web & Blogs
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Reviews



TV & Video

2024

About the Authors TV — Jean Trounstine on Shakespeare Behind Bars & Motherlove
2024

Lit Fic with Caroline Leavitt — Jean Trounstine on Motherlove
2024

Fierce Conversations with Toby — “I Could Hear Their Voices Speaking Out of the Darkness” — Jean Trounstine on Shakespeare Behind Bars, Boy With A Knife & Motherlove
March 12, 2024

2019

Changing Lives — Theatre and Literature in Prison as Sources of Change — Jean Trounstine leads an educational seminar at Pesaro Prison, Italy, with incarcerated individuals, theatre staff, court officers, and students from Carlo Bo University of Urbino. Filmed November 4–5, 2019. Produced by Aenigma University Cultural Association for the International Network Theatre in Prison (INTiP).
November 2019 — Pesaro Prison, Italy

2016

David Pakman Show — “Juveniles in Adult Prisons: A Disastrous Idea” — re: Boy With A Knife
May 19, 2016

Rising Up with Sonali — re: Boy With A Knife
April 19, 2016

2012

Marblehead Community Access TV — “Changing Our World” — Linda Weltner interviews Jean Trounstine at Marblehead’s Abbot Library about her work with women at Framingham Women’s Prison and her book Shakespeare Behind Bars. A One World Community Production.
April 2012

Jean Trounstine with Linda Weltner of Marblehead TV
Jean Trounstine with Linda Weltner of Marblehead TV following their interview about Shakespeare Behind Bars at Abbot Library, Marblehead.

2011

  • Performing New Lives Panel — NYC at the East Side Institute, introducing the power and potential of theatre in prison
    April 15, 2011

    • 2010

  • Performing New Lives — moving 7-minute video trailer drawing together original and innovative programs in contemporary prison theatre
    2010

    • 2007

  • Pen New England Freedom to Write Forum — “Writing on the Walls: American Prison Writing,” sponsored by WGBH, Boston MA
    April 19, 2007

Undated

  • Jean’s Changing Lives Through Literature program has appeared on The Today Show.



Radio & Podcasts

2026

2024

  • Radio Boston, WBUR — “Book highlights stories of mothers caught up in the criminal legal system” — interview with Jean Trounstine and Stacey Borden
    March 29, 2024
  • The Amy Beth Arkawy Show — interview
    May 17, 2024
  • WHMP “The Hustler Files” — interview
    2024
  • Radio Pesaro Incontro — coverage (Italy)
    2024
  • Book Stew, Wilmington MA
    July 1, 2024
  • KFMG The Culture Buzz
    May 13, 2024
  • Bill Brady Show
    April 10, 2024
  • WFHG SuperTalk 92.9FM, Richmond Virginia
    April 6, 2024
  • WLMP Interview — WHMP 101.5 / 1400 AM
    April 6, 2024

2016

Reforming the Justice System with Jan Miyasaki, WORT FM
May 4, 2016

  • The Bill Newman Show, WHMP Radio
    May 17, 2016
  • Public Eye with Al Vuona — podcast
    April 17, 2016
  • Killer Legal Reality Radio — Amazing People, a 3-part series
    April 21, 2016
  • Ideasphere with Guy Rathbun
    April 11, 2016
  • Radio With a View — a show about Boy With A Knife
    April 10, 2016
  • A Story of Murder, Remorse, and Justice, Radio Boston with Karter Reed
    March 30, 2016

2015

  • “You Are Here” — a show about prison education, WERS Boston, interview by Maria Nifakos
    October 18, 2015

2014

  • Rap Radio out of UMass Amherst — Juvenile Justice and Massachusetts harsh sentencing laws
    2014

2006

  • Four Stories — Boston’s pre-eminent reading series, Crime and Punishment: Stories from the Big House, featuring Jean, Tracy Slater, TJ Parsell and Elaine Lee.
    Listen to the mp3
    October 30, 2006

2001

  • Interview, All Things Considered, NPR — Shakespeare Behind Bars
    March 21, 2001
  • Interview with Elizabeth Lund, Christian Science Monitor — “Putting Drama into Prison’s Stark Life”

Undated

  • Jean has also appeared on The Connection with Chris Lydon and Here and Now with Robin Young.



Web & Blogs

2024

2016

  • CarolineLeavittville — “A Young Prisoner fights for Justice in Jean Trounstine’s extraordinary true narrative of murder, memory, truth and redemption, in Boy With A Knife”
    April 11, 2016

2014

  • CarolineLeavittville — “The Bard and women behind bars: Jean Trounstine talks about Shakespeare Behind Bars: The Power of Drama in a Women’s Prison”
    December 3, 2014

2007

2006

Undated



Print



Reviews

2024

  • The Arts Fuse — “Motherlove: The Desperations of Incarceration” — review by Bill Littlefield
    April 9, 2024
  • Celtic Lady Reviews — spotlight review of Motherlove
    2024
  • Novels Alive — 4-star review of Motherlove
    May 1, 2024