Healing TREE offers Fiscal Sponsorships, Trauma Consulting, being a Theatre Authority Fundraising Beneficiary, Arts Partnerships (which can include Talk Backs and linking your project to our Resources) and we have Artist Advocates who are working actors, singers, dancers, musicians, writers, composers, directors, producers, etc. whom we collaborate with to help achieve our mission. For more information click here.
Mass
Healing TREE is partners with the feature film Mass. Mass premiered at Sundance, had a theatrical release, won the Robert Altman Award and was a Gotham, Critics Choice and BAFTA nominee. It was written and directed by Healing TREE Artist Advocate and star of our short film Silk, Fran Kranz (The Cabin In The Woods). It stars Emmy Winners Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Martha Plimpton (Raising Hope, Running on Empty), Tony Winner Reed Birney (The Humans, House of Cards) and Jason Isaacs (White Lotus, the Harry Potter film series). Mass was co-produced by Healing TREE Founder Marissa Ghavami.
Variety: “Sundance Favorite ‘Mass’ Sets Fall Release, Ensemble Cast Goes Supporting for Oscars (EXCLUSIVE)”
“The Sundance Film Festival hit will be released exclusively in theaters on Oct. 8, 2021, Variety has learned exclusively. In addition, all four actors will be campaigned in the supporting actor and supporting actress categories for the Oscars.”
The Ford/Hill Project
Healing TREE collaborated with Waterwell on The Ford/Hill Project at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, directed by Lee Sunday Evans, partnering to create a Decompression Space. This Decompression Space, with a trauma-informed mental health professional who could help process anything that may be coming up for audience members if they would like, was available at the production before, during, and after each performance for anyone who needed it.
Divine Riot
Divine Riot is a collective of actors dedicated to using theater, film, and community outreach to empower the artist within us all.
N’Kenge Foundation
Our mission is to educate, mentor, inspire, and uplift through the arts by magnifying BIPOC stories in educational initiatives as well as community engagement programs focused on mental health and healing through the arts. We want to ensure that these powerful narratives are accessible through all multimedia efforts.
Dorothy Dandridge! The Musical
Dorothy Dandridge! The Musical is a joyous and spectacular song and dance celebration of a fearless pioneer who dared to dream. Dorothy’s story inspires a new generation of young women and anyone striving against the odds and overcoming trauma. This musical also sets new grounds in being set to an innovative, contemporary, genre-crossing original score.
Please join for one of three 90 minute, fully staged performances at the New York Theater Festival.
Monday, December 11, 2023 6:15PM
Friday, December 15, 2023 9:00PM
Sunday, December 17, 2023 3:30PM
Ring of Keys
Ring of Keys is an artist service organization that fosters community and visibility for musical theatre artists – onstage and off – who self-identify as queer women, transgender, and gender non-confirming artists.
The Siblings Play
As a 2019-2020 TOW Playwright-in-Residence, Ren Dara Santiago’s The Siblings Play, directed by Jenna Worsham, premiered at the renowned Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in March 2020, co-produced by Piece by Piece Productions; the run was cut short due to COVID-19. Healing TREE was a Community Partner on this production and Healing TREE Founder Marissa Ghavami led a Community Conversation after the March 8th performance.
For Mars, Leon and Marie what defines family is survival. It’s something they learned from their parents and finessed on the block. These kids grew up knowing how to look solid when life fills you with holes. When one parent starts to creep back in to one of their lives, the holes start to bleed. Out come vengeful spirits and one of the siblings can’t keep up. Living with these kids means being haunted by people you live with.
Halalish
From Pakistan to NYC, a Muslim woman’s journey through love, labels, longing, and (potentially) getting laid on Valentine’s Day, told with humor, heartbreak, and a whole lot of healing.
The Elephants and the Grass
Healing TREE is partners with the Documentary feature film The Elephants and the Grass. Fleeing a brutal civil war, a mother and daughter face unthinkable dangers as they journey towards safety. Can those most affected by violence return and rebuild the nation that was stolen from them?
Cursed
Cursed is a brand new jazz play written by Italian playwright Argia Coppola, based on the novel Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates, starring Annie Hägg and her band, The High Kicks. In Cursed, Annie portrays the triptych of the icon Marilyn Monroe, her alter ego Norma Jeane Baker and her mother Gladys. The story also explores her absent father, and many other male and female characters in Monroe’s life through music and text. It’s a unique, fast-paced piece that depicts the life of the Blond Actress as never seen before. This adaptation is bold, breathless, tragic, and timely. It’s a play for an actress and a four-man jazz band, in which music becomes a character in and of itself. The work focuses on the woman-centric experience in the face of abuse.
You’re Not There
Based on Justy Kosek’s short story, You’re Not There unfolds a gripping and deeply human story. At it’s core is Maggie Donovan, a young woman trying to rebuild her life after surviving tragic childhood trauma. Part psychological thriller, part comedic romance, the film deftly switches between the heart wrenching and the humorous, as it tells the often untold story of survivors of trauma learning to cope and find love within the pressures of a modern American society.
The Village (Staged Reading)
THE VILLAGE follows two young women as they grow up in a religious community in South Texas. This play explores their relationships with their faith, sexuality, family, and each other. This story is an exploration of the relationship between queerness and the sacred, infused with youthful magic and deep care and hope for a better future.
Written by: Savannah Ritz
Directed by: Ludmila de Brito
Join for one of two performances:
Saturday, August 6th, 3pm
Sunday, August 7th, 7pm
Or (Someone) Else
Healing TREE is partners with the short film Or (Someone) Else (@orsomeoneelse_film Facebook.com/orsomeoneelsefilm) which is currently in the festival circuit. Healing TREE Artist Advocate Emily Althaus, star of Orange Is The New Black, is the lead of this film which is written and directed by Caroline Rose Giuliani (@carolinerosegiu www.carolinerosegiuliani.com). Or (Someone) Else is a psychological thriller about a woman struggling to break free from an abusive relationship and the dangerous mental health ramifications of her repressed anger. This short film is a proof of concept for a feature length film in development that tackles many of the same themes. We are so proud and grateful that our website and logo are at the end of this film, encouraging viewers to visit our website for resources on healing trauma.
