Sometimes an event happens that changes a life forever. For David Rothenberg, it was that night when he realized what his play said about real life for former prisoners. It seems unlikely that a theater and television producer would become a staunch advocate for prison and parole reform, but sometimes fate steps in. Rothenberg’s multilayered life has thrust him into Broadway‘s brightest lights, prison riots, political campaigns, civil rights sit-ins, and a Central American Civil War.