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Meade Palidofsky
Meade Palidofsky is the founder and Artistic Director of Storycatchers Theatre, a not-for-profit performing arts organization. The Chicago Community Trust named Ms. Palidofsky as one of three 2010 Experienced Leader Fellows. As part of the fellowship, she studied trauma theory with Dr. Bradley Stolbach, Director of the La Rabida Children's Trauma Center. In 2009, Ms. Palidofsky was one of three artists selected to be part of a Columbia College Chicago/Scotland Arts Council artists’ exchange. Ms. Palidofsky’s work with the Fabulous Females at the Illinois Youth Center in Warrenville is featured in the documentary Girls on the Wall, awarded a midwest Emmy in November, 2010. The documentary was presented nationally on PBS and was awarded top documentary film at the Bermuda International Film Festival.
Ms. Palidofsky contributed a chapter to Performing New Lives, a book on Prison Theatre, published by Jessica Kingsley in the fall of 2010.
Ms. Palidofsky and Dr. Stolbach co-authored a paper for the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma, presenting a theoretical framework for her creative work with incarcerated youth. They presented this joint work at a symposium as part of the annual conference of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies in November, 2010 in Montreal, Canada. Ms. Palidofsky also travelled and traded best practices with artists working with incarcerated populations in Northern Ireland, Scotland and England. Under her direction, Storycatchers Theatre has begun a new and innovative collaboration with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. As part of that collaboration, new maestro Ricardo Muti and Yo-Yo Ma presented interactive concerts with the Fabulous Females, Storycatchers' program for incarcerated girls.