The Fortune Society Celebrates a Production of "The Castle"

(Manhattan, NY) Four individuals, who collectively served seven decades in prison, told their harrowing life stories of abuse, abandonment, crime, incarceration, reentry and redemption at The Fortune Society’s dramatic presentation of “The Castle” on Sunday, September 22, at Castle Gardens.

Created and directed by the founder of The Fortune Society, David Rothenberg, “The Castle” stars four members of the Fortune community who, with Fortune’s help, transformed their lives and are now responsible, successful, tax-paying New Yorkers. Each lived at Fortune’s transitional supportive housing facility in West Harlem, The Fortune Academy, also known as The Castle. This dramatic play, which met with rave reviews, ran Off-Broadway for 18 months.
The cast included Rory Anderson, Vilma Ortiz Donovan, Ervin Hunt and Casimiro Torres. After the performance, audience members participated in a Q&A with the four cast members.
The Fortune Society is one of the nation’s most respected nonprofit organizations serving and advocating for people with criminal justice involvement.

ABOUT THE FORTUNE SOCIETY: For nearly forty years, The Fortune Society has been developing model programs that help former prisoners successfully re-enter their communities. The Fortune Society offers a holistic and integrated “one-stop-shopping” model of service provision. Among the services offered are supportive housing, career development, job retention, substance abuse treatment, alternatives to incarceration, HIV/AIDS services, education, family services, and drop in services as well as ongoing access to aftercare. For more information, visit www.fortunesociety.org.