Based on lessons learned in San Antonio free health clinics and New York acupuncture schools and from the treatments and consejos of curanderas, abortion doctors, Marxist artists, and bourgie dermatologists, Your Healing is Killing Me is a reflection by writer/performer Virginia Grise (blu) on living with post-traumatic stress disorder, ansia, and eczema in the new age of trigger warnings, the master cleanse, and kickstarter funded self-care. Because Capitalism is toxic but The Revolution is not in your body butter.
Dates/Times:
Thursday, Oct. 5 at 8 pm
Friday, Oct. 6 at 8 pm
Saturday, Oct. 7 at 8 pm
Tickets: $15
Virginia Grise (Playwright/Performer) is a recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award, Princess Grace Award in Theater Directing, and the Yale Drama Series Award. Her published work includes Your Healing is Killing Me (Plays Inverse Press), The Panza Monologues (University of Texas Press), and blu (Yale University Press). She earned her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and currently lives in the Bronx.
Emily Mendelsohn (Director) is a Brooklyn-based theater director interested in small acts of mysticism. With an ensemble of artists from East Africa and the US, she directed Deborah Asiimwe’s Cooking Oil and Erik Ehn’s Maria Kizito. She has also collaborated with Pearldamour, Caridad Svich, Virginia Grise, Kristina Wong and Katori Hall. She is a recipient of TCG's Global Connection In the Lab program, a Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs grant, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Uganda. MFA CalArts. Core member Theater Without Borders/Climate Lens.
Photo Credit: Netza Moreno
Dates/Times:
Thursday, Oct. 5 at 8 pm
Friday, Oct. 6 at 8 pm
Saturday, Oct. 7 at 8 pm
Tickets: $15
Virginia Grise (Playwright/Performer) is a recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award, Princess Grace Award in Theater Directing, and the Yale Drama Series Award. Her published work includes Your Healing is Killing Me (Plays Inverse Press), The Panza Monologues (University of Texas Press), and blu (Yale University Press). She earned her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and currently lives in the Bronx.
Emily Mendelsohn (Director) is a Brooklyn-based theater director interested in small acts of mysticism. With an ensemble of artists from East Africa and the US, she directed Deborah Asiimwe’s Cooking Oil and Erik Ehn’s Maria Kizito. She has also collaborated with Pearldamour, Caridad Svich, Virginia Grise, Kristina Wong and Katori Hall. She is a recipient of TCG's Global Connection In the Lab program, a Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs grant, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Uganda. MFA CalArts. Core member Theater Without Borders/Climate Lens.
Photo Credit: Netza Moreno