Actor and playwright Elizabeth Kenny performs an excerpt from her play dramatizing a horrifying journey through the American medical system.
Feisty and brash, with a wicked sense of humor…a gut-wrenching immediacy one won’t soon forget.
The Seattle Times
About Elizabeth
Actor and playwright Elizabeth Kenny was a healthy thirty-two year-old woman who went to the doctor for a common ailment. A year and a half later, she was in a locked level 5 psych ward. Her two-year odyssey inside the United States’ healthcare system inspired Elizabeth to write and perform a one-woman show, Sick. Following a successful run in Seattle (during which it was extended five times), Sick has been touring the nation. Next, Elizabeth co-wrote a play with rock music that explored the untold stories of Seattle’s women of grunge. Elizabeth lives in San Francisco, where she’s working on a film version of Sick, teaching storytelling workshops, and writing a new script that explores the phrase “what we know about the brain is…”
Intrigued? here’s more…
Quick Links
- Mad In America
- Hearing Voices Network
- International Coalition for Drug Awareness
- Docs for Dollars – ProPublica
- FDA MedWatch
- PharmedOut – Georgetown University Medical Center
Books
Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs
Avorn, J. (Vintage Books, 2005)
The Antidepressant Solution: A Step-by-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming Antidepressant Withdrawal, Dependence, and “Addiction”
Glenmullen, J. (Free Press, 2006)
Prozac Backlash: Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Other Antidepressants with Safe, Effective Alternatives
Glenmullen, J. (Simon & Shuster, 2001)
Harm Reduction Guide to Coming off Psychiatric Drugs
Hall, W. (Icarus Project, 2007)
The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
Kirsch, I. (Basic Books, 2011)
