PLAYBACK THEATRE

Story-based improvisational theatre theatre that builds connection, dialogue, and change. Volunteers from the audience tell personal stories during a performance, then watch as trained actors and musicians create theatre on the spot. read more

 

 

 

DANCING WITH DIANA: a novel

The future Princess Diana dances for five minutes with a teenage boy in a wheelchair, an encounter that colors the rest of his life though quickly forgotten by her.

“I read [DwD] on a flight home from Europe. What a heartfelt world Jo Salas evokes with such a light touch, such care, and so many beautiful sentences. It was a pleasure to read each page, so I took my time. It is a humanizing story. And in case anyone is keeping count…I cried four times. My seat mate got a little uncomfortable. I sure didn’t.”  (Amazon review) read more

 

 

WRITING

Short fiction published in anthologies and literary journals. Nonfiction including books and articles about Playback Theatre. read more

 

 

 

 

POSTS

For a while after September 11th we didn’t know how to refer to the cataclysm we spoke of day and night. “The bombing” wasn’t accurate. “The attacks on the World Trade Center” was too much of a mouthful and left out the Pentagon and the plane that fell in the Pennsylvania countryside. What we usually said was “when it happened” or “since it happened.” There was no need to say what “it” was. After a while—weeks? longer?—it acquired a name: “September 11th” or “9/11.” read more