The Abolitionist Theatre Company is a group of performance artists from Brown University committed to using theatre for social change. Our mission is to use the communicative power of artistic, authentic, activist theatre to strengthen, enliven, and broaden social justice movements, and to transform all people into agents of change. We believe that abolition of the beliefs and dynamics that prevent people from actively fighting exploitation, poverty and injustice is the necessary first step in the abolition of these realities.

The ATC’s pilot project, The Abolition Project, is designed to connect young people in Providence with the movement to end modern day forms of slavery. Through the research, creation and performance of a creative ensemble theatre piece about Commercial Sexual Exploitation, we will train our artistic voices to speak the language of social change. By collaborating with the most powerful generation – the youth – throughout our process, we will inspire and empower them to speak the same language.