ROCHESTER, NY (WXXI) – Cornell University’s prison educational programs have been on hold during the pandemic, but a theater professor has found a way to keep connected with incarcerated people. For decades, performing arts professor Bruce Levitt has used theater as a way to engage with people who are incarcerated. A student stands in front of a videocamera during a recording of her performance in the play Credit provided by Bruce Levitt “To see people discover themselves in front of you is very exciting,” said Levitt, who is also a facilitator for the Phoenix Players Theatre Group at Auburn Maximum Security Prison. “To help them on that journey, particularly people who have been reduced to a number and a crime find and rediscover their wholeness as human beings is a pretty exciting process.”