Ironweed Productions and Teatro Paraguas’

Song of the Prison Gate

Talkback • Meet the Director  • Pay What You Will ($20 suggested donation)

Sunday, May 3 at 2PM

By Gary Farlow

Teatro Paraguas Second Space, 3205 Calle Marie Suite A, Santa Fe

Stories from an American Prison: the human side of incarceration

Ironweed Productions and Teatro Paraguas presents a staged reading of riveting monologues of American prison life, written by Gary Farlow, an incarcerated man serving out a forty year sentence in the North Carolina prison system. The winner of the 2025 PEN America Prison Writing Contest for Drama, Farlow’s stories are by turns deeply poignant, funny, thought-provoking, heartening and unsettling. Alexander Lane directs ten fine actors to give voice to people whose experiences of life in America are seldom heard. Emery Barrera, Rudy (Froggy) Fernandez, Jorge Gonzalez, Darci Gutierrez, David Jondreau, John Macker, Marcos Maez, Matt O'Reilly, Joaquin Rodriguez and former Santa Fe poet laureate, Darryl Lorenzo Wellington.  

For the last decade, Farlow has mentored other inmates in a creative writing program and is the longtime editor of the prison newsletter.

Proceeds from this reading will benefit Living with Convictions, a non-profit based in North Carolina that provides support and resources to men transitioning into society

You must purchase your own ticket to the performance at https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/teatro-paraguas-nm/song-of-the-prison-gate#/. 

Suggested contribution is $20 per ticket.  Once you have bought your ticket, register for the TLC Steps Out event using the registration form below.

Theatre Lovers Club Steps Out events offer participants a chance to view plays with other theater goers, meet playwrights, directors, producers, actors and tech staff. We offer you a way to know the stories inside the plays you want to see. We hope you join us.