Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA-Arts) is a social justice non profit in Westchester County, New York known for the film Sing Sing . [1]
RTA, which uses theater as a tool of prisoner rehabilitation, [2] was started in 1996 by Katherine Vockins as The Theater Workshop following a visit to Sing Sing. [3] Their first production was Reality in Motion and they are now in operation in eight prisons in New York State. [4] [5]
Vockins led RTA through 2022 and former alum Jermaine Archer is the current executive director as of February 2025. [6]