About Us
We are leaders, activists and educators. We believe that storytelling, theater arts and play are some of the most powerful tools in addiction recovery.
We also believe that by sharing the voices of lived experience – our voices and yours – we challenge damaging cultural norms that hinder recovery, and instead foster a world of wellbeing.
Our Vision
To create a world in which no one dies from addiction.
Our Mission
Everyone deserves a chance at recovery, and recovery is different for everyone. Our mission is to revolutionize recovery so it is accessible to everyone. We research, write and deliver creative training & education that makes recovery welcoming, fun and sustainable.
Our Values
- Everyone is worthy of our respect and dignity
- We strive for full inclusivity in everything we do
- We push ourselves and each other to be our best creative selves
- We are heart-centered. We treat all people with the empathy and tenderness that comes from shared experience
- We are guided by recovery principles in all aspects of our business
The Meghann Perry Group
Meghann Perry, Founder, CARC, RCPF
Meghann has lived a life of challenges. She has struggled with substance addiction, mental health challenges, incarceration, living unhoused, trauma, and loss. In the fight to survive she has developed a deep resilience. Over the years, she has learned how to move beyond surviving to prospering. She has discovered that life can, in fact, be amazing.
Along the way, Meghann found something inside herself she didn’t know was there: A drive to serve. She found purpose in igniting change in others by doing what she loves - theater, storytelling and teaching. Her goal is to make everyone she encounters feel they have a place to grow, heal, and belong. She strives to make a significant impact on both individuals and institutions.
Meghann’s work is well known throughout the field of recovery. She has partnered with the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR), Recovery Coach Academy UK, the Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC), Peer Recovery Center of Excellence, Massachusetts Bureau of Substance Addiction Services’ Office of Youth and Young Adult Services, Northeastern University, She Recovers Foundation, and Choice Recovery Coaching.
Meghann Perry appeared alongside former Director of the Office of National Drug Control Programs (ONDCP) Michael Botticelli in the CBS News documentary, Faith, Hope and the Burden of Addiction, performed in WGBH’s Stories from the Stage, co-directed two sold-out theater runs of This is Treatment and Moving Stories Foundation, and performed in two Moth Grand Slams. She has performed at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theater, the Boston Lyric Opera House and
Boston Playwright’s Theater.
Meghann Perry speaks frequently on issues of social justice at institutions such as Massachusetts State House, Harvard Law School, and Google. Meghann Perry holds a BS in Theatre Education from Emerson College and is one of the first Certified Addiction Recovery Coaches (CARC) in Massachusetts.
Elizabeth Addison, Trainer
In 2013, Elizabeth began writing her first musical, This is Treatment, a story that highlights the personal journeys of Black and Brown women as they navigate addiction, treatment and recovery. This is Treatment has been seen throughout New England and in NYC, including a sold out run at Northeastern University. Her third and latest musical, Chasing Grace, was accepted into the prestigious SheNYC summer theatre festival, following a highly successful staged reading with Jag Productions, a company in residence at New York Theatre Workshop. Elizabeth is the Artistic Director of the New Works department at 2nd Act, an organization dedicated to changing how communities respond to the impact of substance use through theatre and drama therapy and she is also the lead artist on The Grayken Center's policy team which seeks wherto make treatment anti-racist and more accessible for Black people.
Elizabeth provides individual and project coaching, helping people find creative solutions to meet their recovery and artistic goals, and is a Recovery Storytelling facilitator. Elizabeth has been with MPG since 2020.
Kerrie Wieners, Trainer
Kerrie Wieners is trained as both a Recovery Coach and a trauma-informed Group Peer Support Facilitator. She has had her own powerful experiences with Recovery Storytelling and is committed to bringing this modality to anyone on a healing journey. Kerrie leads MPG's biweekly Story Gathering support groups to introduce others to the Recovery Storytelling method and help them find connection, community and healing.
Kerrie trained as a Home Health Aide (HHA) and Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) with Cape Cod Community College and spent a decade with the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department; working in communications, then as a training officer providing department-wide training. Kerrie has been with MPG since its inception.
Susie Schutt, Trainer + Curriculum Developer
Susie Schutt, MA, RDT, MHC-A (she|her|hers) is a mental health counselor associate and a registered drama therapist working with schools and individuals across Rhode Island through Third Person Therapy and Thrive Behavioral Health. She acts as a theatre director and an intimacy director for local colleges and theatre companies, most recently directing Indecent, by Paula Vogel at the Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence. She served as The Gamm Theatre’s Director of Education & Drama Therapist from 2014 to 2022. Susie received her MA in mental health counseling and drama therapy from Lesley University and is a graduate of the University of Michigan, with a BA in sociology and social inequality. Susie is the co-creator of Meghann Perry Group's Embodied Storytelling and Group Facilitation curriculum and brings her extensive experience with facilitation, theatre education, mental health, and young people to her role at the Meghann Perry Group.
Chris Everett, Trainer
Chris Everett is an actor, voiceover artist, singer, educator, writer, and person in recovery who has been acting professionally for more than 25 years. For over 20 of those years Chris held multiple roles in the substance use prevention and education theater troupe, Improbable Players, including Actor, Educator, Program Manager, Board Member and Co-Director. She has also served as a member of the board of directors of the Greater Boston Council for Alcohol Addiction since 2020, which funds organizations involved with the education, prevention, treatment and recovery of persons with Substance Use Disorder.
Chris has extensive experience performing on both stage and in film. She’s worked with Company One, Front Porch Arts Collective, TC Squared and Wheelock Family Theater. Her film work has brought her to scenes with Denzel Washington (EQ2), Sigourney Weaver (The Good House), and Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence (Don’t Look Up).
In addition to her work as an actor and in the field of substance use prevention and recovery, Chris has a passion for powerful storytelling and supporting people who are on any kind of healing journey. She shares those gifts through the Meghann Perry Group as a Facilitator and Trainer.
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