- Announcement from the Graduate Peer Coaching Program: Hi Everyone! We are a group of graduate students in the Graduate Peer Coaching Program through McGraw and we’re interested in bringing together other graduate students to talk about issues of belonging, isolation, and imposter syndrome among other topics. If any of this resonates with you, please fill out the survey and add your email to participate in future events and workshops. Thanks! Link to survey here: https://princetonsurvey.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3dDrrHWSwM4veLj
- MANIC MONOLOGUES: Personal Short-Story Open-Call McCarter Theatre’s The Manic Monologues, a virtual theater project directed by Princeton University Professor Elena Araoz, and designed to ignite conversation and disrupt stigma around mental illness – is seeking confidential personal short-story submissions from Princeton undergraduate and graduate students, about your experience with mental health struggles.
From the student submissions, we will select a few stories that will be incorporated into an existing set of monologues, to be performed by actors, as part of a unique virtual experience, released in February 2021. Entries are submitted through an anonymous submission form.- Stories should feel like they are being casually spoken aloud to someone since they will be performed by professional actors as off-the-cuff personal monologues; no “polished” essays or academic papers, please. Monologues should be 1-5 min max in length (when read aloud).
- Stories can be about the struggle of facing mental illness or diagnosis, overcoming stigma, finding resilience, learning to live with mental illness, etc – there are no limitations to the type of content. We are especially interested in stories from students navigating through 2020’s complexities such as the COVID-19 pandemic, working inside activist movements such as Black Lives Matter, or concerns over immigration.
- Stories that are not chosen to be performed by actors, may still be featured in the project – in a dedicated “reading room” section of the interactive web experience, which chronicles written stories for audiences to access.
- By submitting, you give the creators artistic freedom to modify the length and style as needed, for the purposes of filming and the virtual platform.
- To find out if your story is featured, go to www.mccarter.org as of December 1st, 2020 to find updates and information on the project launch date (February 2021.)
DEADLINE for Anonymous Submissions: November 18. Link to Submit: https://airtable.com/shrUBr5RRPEh9G0jc Help us break down the stigma around mental illness by sharing your stories. If you are in need of mental health treatment, please contact CPS at 609-258-3141. MORE INFO about THE MANIC MONOLOGUES Virtual Theater Project: Project Overview Questions about submissions, contact: earaoz@princeton.edu
- Stories should feel like they are being casually spoken aloud to someone since they will be performed by professional actors as off-the-cuff personal monologues; no “polished” essays or academic papers, please. Monologues should be 1-5 min max in length (when read aloud).
