Your Healing Is Killing Me

By Virginia Grise with additional writing by Florinda Bryant Directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury

A performance manifesto

When a health system based in capitalism meets a Queer, Chicana body, its full limitations come into sharp focus. The result is a manifesto full of clarity into the revolution that must come in order for our society to truly care for its most vulnerable.

AGE RECOMMENDATION

This show is not recommended for those under 18.

Run Time

Approximately 80 minutes. No intermission.

Special Events

Saturday:

Vimala Rajendran has been cooking in the south since 1985. She is the chef and founder of Vimala’s Curryblossom Café in downtown Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her restaurant has been bringing homecooked Indian flavors from her home state of Kerala, her beloved Mumbai and other parts of India since 2010, when it was voted “Best New Restaurant in the Triangle” by INDY Week. Since then, Vimala’s has been voted “Best Indian Restaurant in the Triangle” for eight consecutive years (2011 through 2018), and Vimala herself was awarded Best Chef in 2018. A longtime activist for progressive causes including environmental justice, grassroots media, farm- and restaurant-worker rights, Vimala believes that delicious, wholesome food is a human right. Operating under the principle “Vimala cooks, everybody eats,” no one is ever turned away at her restaurant.
Amy Weil, MD originally from New York City, is entering her 20th year at UNC. She is a Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina, as well as Medical Co-Director of the Beacon Child and Family Program. She received her BA in History and Psychology at Yale College, and her MD at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She did her residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Yale, where she also served as Chief Resident. She is passionate about gender based health issues and social justice and has been able to bring these concerns to bear on patient care, teaching, advocacy and advising. Over the years, Dr. Weil has worked with colleagues to expand offerings designed to sustain empathy and humanism among students and faculty and has been fortunate to collaborate with Katherine Hunter Williams via Hidden Voices, the Ackland Art Museum, Carolina Performing Arts and Playmakers’ Jacqueline Lawton to help students reflect on patients’ experiences of health and illness and the meaning of the work they do together. After college, Dr. Weil worked as a counselor for survivors of sexual assault and with patients living with psychiatric illnesses and has extended these interests into her career, teaching about Trauma Informed Care locally and nationally and serving as Clinical Supervisor for UNC Internal Medicine clinic’s Depression and Anxiety Programs. Most recently she has been an advocate of student ‘hotspotting’ as a way to engage learners to meet patients where they are and ally with them to solve the problems that are most pressing to them. She also loves to spend time with her family and friends, traveling, reading, writing swimming, hiking, watching birds, cooking and doing yoga.

Artists

Shayok Misha Chowdhury

Not a Play

Virginia Grise’s one-woman piece "Your Healing is Killing Me" may be hitting the PlayMakers stage next week, but don't call it a play. It's a performance manifesto.

AGE RECOMMENDATION

Run Time

Special Events

A DEEPER LOOK INTO ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

TURNING THE PAGES OF DIVERSITY IN MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES

CLOSER LOOK AT PERFORMATIVE ART

SOCIAL JUSTICE ACROSS FIELDS

THE ART OF SOCIAL ACTIVISM

LEARNING ABOUT THE HEALING

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