

Ladies from Serenity Place engage with the Playback Cafe during an outing to Triune Mercy Center in Greenville, SC.

The Applied Theatre Center partnered with Serenity Place in 2018 to produce “Beautiful Recovery”, which featured writing and art by Serenity Place residents, as well as professional studio photographs of the writers and artists.
We offer weekly drama therapy groups for women at Serenity Place (a program of the Phoenix Center) and Jasmine Road. In these groups we adopt a strengths-based approach that combines emotional expression with role playing and writing and art therapies. The ladies often create and perform plays about their lives and they publish books of their writing and art. articipate by offering opinions, perspectives and solutions!

The Applied Theatre Center partnered with Serenity Place in 2020 to produce “Blossoming In Recovery”, which featured writing and art by Serenity Place residents, as well as professional studio photographs of the writers and artists.
- Blossoming in Recovery’ will be second book from Serenity Place women as they share struggles with addiction – Greenville News (12.23.20)
- Women From SC Facility Share Addiction Struggles in New Book – US News & World Report (12.27.20)
- Blossoming in Recovery will be second book from Serenity Place women – Addiction Orange County (12.23.20)