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Watch our monologues below, access research, take our survey, and check out our community connections to volunteer and donate to COVID-19 relief efforts.
Wrong Disease by Lane Stanley, produced by Jess Rassp
I’m Old School by Reynaldo Piniella, produced by Arena Players
Dance of the Dead Inside by Jess Kim, produced by Jess Rassp
Get Ready With Me by Britt Willis, produced by Single Carrot Theatre
Better Cooking Than Talking by Alli Hartley-Kong, produced by Fells Point Corner Theatre
Angel by Kelleen Blanchard, produced by Strand Theater Company
Black Pain by Christin Cato, produced by Two Strikes Theatre Collective
How to be a Carved Horse by Shawn Reddy, produced by Single Carrot Theatre

Wrong Disease 

Angel

Inspired by research on COVID-19 and HIV
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Produced by Jess Rassp
Written by Lane Michael Stanley 
Directed by Ben Pierce
Performed by Christian Gonzalez 

Qiao, S., Li, Z., Weissman, S., Li, X., Olatosi, B., Davis, C., & Mansaray, A. B. (2020). Disparity in HIV service interruption in the outbreak of COVID-19 in South Carolina. AIDS and Behavior, 1-9.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10461-020-03013-x
 
Shiau, S., Krause, K. D., Valera, P., Swaminathan, S., & Halkitis, P. N. (2020). The burden of COVID-19 in people living with HIV: a syndemic perspective. AIDS and Behavior, 24(8), 2244-2249. 
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10461-020-02871-9
 
Marziali, M. E., Card, K. G., McLinden, T., Wang, L., Trigg, J., & Hogg, R. S. (2020). Physical distancing in COVID-19 may exacerbate experiences of social isolation among people living with HIV. AIDS and Behavior, 24(8), 2250-2252. 
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10461-020-02872-8

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​Inspired by research on COVID-19 and Women
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Produced by Strand Theater Company
Written by Kelleen Conway Blanchard
Directed by Erin Riley
Performed by O’Malley Steuerman 

Sergent, K., & Stajkovic, A. D. (2020). Women’s leadership is associated with fewer deaths during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative and qualitative analyses of United States governors. Journal of Applied Psychology. https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2020-47004-001.pdf 

Coscieme, L., Fioramonti, L., Mortensen, L. F., Pickett, K. E., Kubiszewski, I., Lovins, H., ... & De Vogli, R. (2020). Women in power: female leadership and public health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic. medRxiv.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.13.20152397v2.full.pdf+html 

Meagher, K., Singh, N. S., & Patel, P. (2020). The role of gender inclusive leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic to support vulnerable populations in conflict settings. BMJ Global Health, 5(9), e003760. https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/9/e003760.full 

Gabster, B. P., van Daalen, K., Dhatt, R., & Barry, M. (2020). Challenges for the female academic during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet, 395(10242), 1968-1970. 


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I'm Old School

Dance of the Dead Inside

Inspired by research on COVID-19 and Older Americans

​​Produced by Arena Players, Inc. 
Written by Reynaldo Piniella 
Directed by Mari Andrea Travis
Performed by Karen Chase
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Monahan, C., Macdonald, J., Lytle, A., Apriceno, M., & Levy, S. R. (2020). COVID-19 and ageism: How positive and negative responses impact older adults and society. American Psychologist, 75(7), 887–896.
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-51010-001 
 
Seifert, A., Cotten, S. R., & Xie, B. (2020). A double burden of exclusion? Digital and social exclusion of older adults in times of COVID-19. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B.
https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/advance-article/doi/10.1093/geronb/gbaa098/5872331?login=true
 
Krendl, A. C., & Perry, B. L. (2021). The impact of sheltering in place during the COVID-19 pandemic on older adults’ social and mental well-being. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 76(2), e53-e58.
https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/76/2/e53/5890805
 
Lam, K., Lu, A. D., Shi, Y., & Covinsky, K. E. (2020). Assessing telemedicine unreadiness among older adults in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. JAMA internal medicine, 180(10), 1389-1391. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2768772
​Inspired by research on COVID-19 and Healthcare workers


Produced by Jess Rassp

Written by Jessica Kim
Directed by Jess Rassp
​Performed by Saraniya Tharmarajah 

Hennein, R., & Lowe, S. (2020). A hybrid inductive-abductive analysis of health workers’
experiences and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Plos one, 15(10), e0240646. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0240646

Iheduru‐Anderson, K. (2020). Reflections on the lived experience of working with limited
personal protective equipment during the COVID‐19 crisis. Nursing Inquiry, e12382
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nin.12382
 
Greenberg, N., Docherty, M., Gnanapragasam, S., & Wessely, S. (2020). Managing mental
health challenges faced by healthcare workers during covid-19 pandemic. BMJ, 368:m1211 https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m1211.full
 
Cox, C. L. (2020). ‘Healthcare Heroes’: problems with media focus on heroism from healthcare
workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of medical ethics, 46(8), 510-513.
https://jme.bmj.com/content/46/8/510.abstract


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How to be a Carved Horse

Inspired by research on COVID-19 and Social Media

Produced by Single Carrot Theatre 
Written by Shawn Reddy
Directed by Genevieve de Mahy
Performed by Surasree Das


Ölcer, S., Yilmaz-Aslan, Y., & Brzoska, P. (2020). Lay perspectives on social distancing and other official recommendations and regulations in the time of COVID-19: a qualitative study of social media posts. BMC Public Health, 20(1), 1-9. https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-020-09079-5 
 
Nabity-Grover, T., Cheung, C. M., & Thatcher, J. B. (2020). Inside out and outside in: How the COVID-19 pandemic affects self-disclosure on social media. International Journal of Information Management, 55, 102188. 
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0268401220310331 
 
Pennycook, G., McPhetres, J., Zhang, Y., Lu, J. G., & Rand, D. G. (2020). Fighting COVID-19 misinformation on social media: Experimental evidence for a scalable accuracy-nudge intervention. Psychological science, 31(7), 770-780. 
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797620939054

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Black Pain​

Inspired by research on COVID-19 and Racial Disparities 

Produced by Two Strikes Theatre Collective
Written by Christin Eve Cato
Directed by Aladrian C. Wetzel 
Performed by Marjuan Canady


Kakani, P., Chandra, A., Mullainathan, S., & Obermeyer, Z. (2020). Allocation of COVID-19 relief funding to disproportionately Black counties. JAMA, 324(10), 10001003. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2770395?casa_token=m5aFsq7LN0wAAAAA:igG8ZUnHLN_yRWa5lnmA7lMkNTiYyONX9G48xiG28fsAsooCMp--jfuzjbpC4jq30p-vDNYUILs

Pirtle, W.N. (2020). Racial capitalism: A fundamental cause of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic inequities in the United States. Health & Education Behavior, 47(4), 504–508. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1090198120922942

Sneed, R. S., Key, K., Bailey, S., & Johnson-Lawrence, V. (2020). Social and psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in African-American communities: Lessons from Michigan. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12(5), 446.
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-41439-001

Ordaz-Johnson, O. H., Croff, R. L., Robinson, L. D., Shea, S. A., & Bowles, N. P. (2020). More Than a Statistic: a Qualitative Study of COVID-19 Treatment and Prevention Optimization for Black Americans. Journal of general internal medicine, 35(12), 3750-3752.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-020-06259-2





Better Cooking than Talking

Inspired by research on COVID-19 and Economic and food insecurity
 

Produced by Fells Point Corner Theatre 
Written by Alli Hartley-Kong
Directed by Noah Silas
Performed by Valerie Lewis


Haynes-Maslow, L., Hardison-Moody, A., Patton-Lopez, M., Prewitt, T. E., Byker Shanks, C., Andress, L., ... & Jilcott Pitts, S. (2020). Examining Rural Food-Insecure Families’ Perceptions of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: A Qualitative Study. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(17), 6390.
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/17/6390

Leddy, A. M., Weiser, S. D., Palar, K., & Seligman, H. (2020). A conceptual model for understanding the rapid COVID-19–related increase in food insecurity and its impact on health and healthcare. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 112(5), 1162-1169.
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/112/5/1162/5882672?login=true

Get Ready with Me

Inspired by research on COVID-19 and Young Americans

Produced by Single Carrot Theatre 
Written by Britt A Willis 
Directed by Lauren Erica Jackson

Performed by B Kleymeyer 
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Son, C., Hegde, S., Smith, A., Wang, X., & Sasangohar, F. (2020). Effects of COVID-19 on college students’ mental health in the United States: Interview survey study. Journal of medical internet research, 22(9), e21279.
https://www.jmir.org/2020/9/e21279/

Fish, J. N., McInroy, L. B., Paceley, M. S., Williams, N. D., Henderson, S., Levine, D. S., & Edsall,R. N. (2020). “I’m Kinda Stuck at Home With Unsupportive Parents Right Now”: LGBTQ Youths’ Experiences With COVID-19 and the Importance of Online Support. Journal of Adolescent Health, 67(3), 450-452. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1054139X20303116

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