Meet the team!
Maia Dolphin-Krute is a writer and artist based in Boston. Working across performance art, disability studies and medical anthropology, she's the author of the books Ghostbodies: Towards a new theory of invalidism (Intellect, 2017), Visceral: Essays on Illness Not as Metaphor (punctum books, 2017) and Opioids: Addiction, Narrative, Freedom (punctum books, 2018). Maia works as an editor for the disability-related literary journal The Deaf Poets Society (and previously served as such for the Boston-focused arts publication Big Red & Shiny). Maia serves as Co-Producer and Writer for The Way We Live Now (2018).
You can find out more about Maia's work at www.ghostbodies.com.
Jesse Erin Posner is an artist from Jamaica Plain. She conducts collaborative projects that create relationships between strangers, spark exchange and influence public space. Combining her political training as a community organizer with her background in directing and visual art, she works with groups to collectively imagine and enact interactive public actions. Her campaign experience began in the LGBTQ+ movement, working with MassEquality to secure equal marriage in 2004 and spans from the 2008 Obama campaign in Ohio to an American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Innovation Grant in Texas with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF). She has worked as a director and designer on projects from Berlin to Sarajevo to Miami. Jesse serves as the Co-Producer and Director for The Way We Live Now (2018).
You can find out more about Jesse's work at www.jesseerin.com.
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Elizabeth Addison is an Artist, Activist, Producer, Entrepreneur, Performer and woman in recovery from drug addiction. After nearly a decade of active addiction, Elizabeth found her way through the Arts and by going to Treatment. Since graduating Treatment, Elizabeth has dedicated her life to using the Arts as a means to connect, heal, educate and help de-stigmatize issues such as mental health and drug addiction. She is the former Associate Artistic Director and founding member of The Dreamscape Project Group, an all female theatre troupe dedicated to developing pieces that address diversity through dance, movement, music and dramatic narrative. She is an actor and Teaching Artist with the Improbable Players as well as one of their Board Members. She was awarded one of two 2015 Playwriting fellowships in the Company One/BCA PlayLab, she led a fundraiser to raise money for the Charleston Church shooting in 2015. Elizabeth has been awarded three grants: The Bob Jolly Grant, The Boston Opportunity Fund Grant and the TBF LAB grant. She has been featured in Scout Cambridge Magazine and The Boston Herald. She has been twice featured on the Emmy Award winning television show CityLine, and has received a letter of commendation from the City of Cambridge on the Launch of This is Treatment.
Last September, Elizabeth started her new company, This is Treatment Inc, a company that will be dedicated to the Arts, Health/Wellness and Entrepreneurship. Most recently, Elizabeth brought her show, This is Treatment, to New York for a series of performances, one of which at the esteemed Feinstein’s/54 Below, and she has just begun writing her first one woman show that will detail the struggles and joys of following ones dream.
Meghann Perry, CARC, is a Certified Addiction Recovery Coach, actor, storyteller and teaching artist. She holds a degree in Theater Education from Emerson College. She’s an award-winning storyteller, storytelling teacher, and a two-time Moth Grand Slam finalist. She works with adolescents and adults seeking recovery from addiction, and combines her background in the performing arts with her work as a recovery coach in projects like Improbable Players, Recovery Storytelling, and the Moving Stories Foundation. She is very excited to be a part of The Way We Live Now. Find out more about these unique, powerful, creative projects at www.meghannperry.com
Eugene SG Massey is an experimental multimedia artist interested in exploring: intimacy, trauma, violence, psychology, family, spirituality, meditation, queerness, silence, and cruelty. They perform with the Boston League of Wicked Wrestlers (BLOWW), and most recently, their video Bipolar Bare won the Alternative Film Fest’s Best New Media award in the Super Short category and will be published in the Transformative Language Arts (TLA) Network’s annual journal Chrysalis. Since graduating from Wesleyan University Eugene’s professional work includes DIY bike repair, interning at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, crisis counseling at a domestic violence crisis center, domestic violence research, and facilitating an LGBTQIA youth group.
Kevin Brunton was born in Minot, North Dakota in 1967, where his father was an officer in the Air Force. When he was still an infant, he moved to Portland, Oregon, where he grew vertically, graduating from Beaverton High School in 1985. Three years later, he joined the U.S. Coast Guard, starting out in Search and Rescue and finishing as a Public Affairs Specialist, participating in Operation Deep Freeze '91/'92 on board USCGC Polar Sea in the Antarctic. In 2010, he graduated from North Essex Community College with an Associate's Degree in Respiratory Therapy and currently works as a Certified Respiratory Therapist at Holy Family Hospital, Merrimack Valley Campus in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Kevin began acting in 2015 and is a German speaker.
Renée Singletary is a Roxbury, Massachusetts born and raised writer, performance and visual artist. Largely self taught but inspired by many, she believes in the healing power of organically creating art and utilizing it to tell the stories of the marginalized experience past, present and future. She has committed herself to using art as a means to center the voices of the marginalized, with special attention to those living at the intersections race, gender and/or sexuality. As an actor, Renée draws in audiences on stage and onscreen with thoughtful and layered performances that further crucial dialog shaping the social, political and emotional states of humanity.