Coach Charlene’s purpose is to bring transformation by creating and inspiring destiny moments because every heartbeat matters... When the Moment chooses you will engage in compassionate courageous conversations with some of the most daring trailblazers and change agents in organizations, corporations and the world who dared to respond to those destiny moments.
Dr. Bardhan and Christina talk with us about how their backgrounds in performing arts brought them to storytelling, the reflective nature of storytelling, and the parallels between clinical practice and the theater arts.
A Bay Area native, longtime New Yorker, and recent Los Angeles transplant, Sabrina Jacob Washburn is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. Her work with young people in various educational settings has ignited a passion for creating challenging work for emerging adults, as well as performances that span theatrical genres. Sabrina returns to the Elevate virtual stage as a playwright this time with her fantastic Runneth Over delivered in partnership with the American Sexual Health Association.
We know that the arts are a major part of the way we reflect the human experience and capture the moment. As we cross the 1-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic, Elevate is working to create a theatrical piece capturing the health and health care stories of this moment. By chronicling the stories of our community interacting with the health care system, navigating the changes we've faced and the COVID stories of our health care providers (good and bad), Elevate plans produce a performance reflecting back the important experiences of this time.
Courtney Bottomley is one of the co-creators of "Being You" an original play by Elevate followed up with a panel of health experts
Marcus John will be presenting his poem Insomnia, 4:18am on January 14th, 2021, Part 3: The Health of our Protest. The show will explore Black Fatigue and the Black Lives Matter Movement through select performances. Insomnia, 4:18am is centered on the struggles of a Black man trying to sleep in a world of chaos, "from COVID to Kobe" and the literal fight to cope.
Jamie Roach playwright of "The Morality of Broccoli," a hilarious play with all-too-real moral dilemmas of consumer consciousness, environmental health and justice, sits with Elevate Theatre Company to discuss the inspiration behind the concept.
In anticipation of the show, Elevate had the pleasure of sitting down with playwright ChelseaDee, to ask some questions about how 2020 has impacted her artistry, what inspired her to write this piece, and what she hopes the audience will learn. We hope you enjoy this brief, 10 minute interview!