A veteran of stage, screen and television, Edith Fields is the recipient of the prestigious Los Angeles Drama Critics Award, seven Drama Logue Awards and a KABC Year End Radio Award for her work in Los Angeles Theatre. She began her career at age 5, singing and dancing for community functions in her home town of Poughkeepsie, New York. She acted in college productions and continued to entertain in Army Hospitals with the U.S.O. Fields received her Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award (as well as a Drama Logue Award) for her work in the Theatre West Production of Like One Of The Family. Criti...
Prison Stories: Women on the Inside
A dramatization examining the effect of prison life on the family unit. "Parole Board" examines the story of a woman who is jailed for killing her husband. Coming up for parole she finds it difficult to face the prospect of renewing her relationship with the daughter she left behind. "Esperanza" focuses on the story of a Puerto Rican woman whose son is arrested for dealing in drugs while she is doing time for the same crime. "New Chicks" is about two young prison newcomers, one who arrives pregnant. Their friendship is put to the test when the pregnant inmate aligns herself with a powerful jail gang leader in hopes of gaining better treatment for her unborn child.
