Theater Work
- Global Investigative Journalism Network: “Using Theater—and Zoom—to Tell Stories of Investigations into Solitary Confinement”
- Local News Matters, “The Box”: Acclaimed play on solitary confinement is remade for the pandemic.
- Justice Arts Coalition, “The BOX” Virtual Performance: A Play About Solitary Confinement by Sarah Shourd
- Kenneth Rainin Foundation: Future IDs at Alcatraz: Creating Space For Second Chances
- VICE: “The Woman Who Turned 410 Days of Solitary in Iran into a Play”
- KQED: “Inside ‘The Box’: New Play Explores Life in Solitary”
- BANG: “Oakland Writer-Activist Tells Story of Solitary Confinement”
- SF Examiner: “‘The Box’ Vividly Looks at Life in Solitary”
- Democracy Now!: “‘Opening the Box’: After Being Jailed in Iran, Sarah Shourd Examines Solitary Confinement in U.S.”
- KTVU Talks to Sarah Shourd About Her Play “The Box”
- San Francisco Magazine: “Being in Isolation, It Physically Hurts,” Jerry Elster and Sarah Shourd
- Watch The Global Online Premiere of The BOX
- 2016: “America’s Invisible Inferno,” by Martin Garbus
- 2016: Publisher’s Weekly, “PW’s Top Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2016.” Selected by Heather Ann Thompson.
- 2015: Kirkus Review, “Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement”
- 2016: Capital Public Radio: “Sarah Shourd Follow Up: Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement”