{"id":23579,"date":"2019-10-18T16:01:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/?p=23579"},"modified":"2019-10-18T16:01:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:01:33","slug":"from-prison-to-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/2019\/10\/18\/from-prison-to-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"From Prison to Stage: URI Nonviolence Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--themify_builder_static--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1658\/Eric.jpg\" alt=\"Eric\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many listeners have been mesmerized over the years by the trials and tribulations of former Providence mayor Vincent \u201cBuddy\u201d Cianci.\u00a0Our beloved Trinity Rep has brought this story to stage in the play The Prince of Providence.\u00a0One of the lead actors is a Providence native, Erick Betancourt, who has his own <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uri.edu\/news\/uri-theatre-alumnus-making-his-mark-on-stage-and-television\/?utm_source=urinewsnov13_2019&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=urinewsnov13_2019\">compelling story to tell<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Erick Betancourt, a <strong>graduate of the University of Rhode Island<\/strong> and the Actors Studio in New York City, has performed in theaters throughout the U.S., most recently at Trinity Rep in the play The Prince of Providence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thepublicsradio.org\/episode\/this-i-believe-new-england-from-prison-to-stage\">Click here to watch the interview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--\/themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many listeners have been mesmerized over the years by the trials and tribulations of former Providence mayor Vincent \u201cBuddy\u201d Cianci.\u00a0Our beloved Trinity Rep has brought this story to stage in the play The Prince of Providence.\u00a0One of the lead actors is a Providence native, Erick Betancourt, who has his own compelling story to tell.\u00a0\u00a0 Erick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1962,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight-on-trainers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}