Katt Lissard teaches in the Graduate Institute at Goddard College and is the artistic director of The Winter/Summer Institute, an HIV/AIDS theatre project based in New York and Lesotho (maketheatre.org). Her essay, “Venus in Lesotho: Women, Theatre and the Collapsible Boundaries of Silence,” is included in Palgrave Macmillan’s Feminist Popular Education in Transnational Debates; recent work appears in SATJ (South Africa Theatre Journal) Vol.27,#2, and is forthcoming in the anthology Transformative Language Arts in Action. She is a Mabou Mines Resident Artist and Art Matters grantee. Phone Call 1983 is from a group memoir in-progress, Red Heads/Red Tales.