CHILDREN

1. GERARDO
2. JAY-TINA-WIFE

GINAThe “Reading and Writing About Sickness and Health”

course taught by Steve Langan, Director of the Medical
Humanities program at UNO, allows students to explore various
themes of the human experience in healthcare by reading and
discussing short stories, poems, creative nonfiction pieces and
more. In turn, the students also work to write and present their
personal health and illness autobiographies.
The latter portion of the class involves playwriting, specifically
producing scripts for one-act plays. To help the students
accomplish this, enter Stephen Cedars and Julia Hansen of
Theater for Social Change.
Theater for Social Change is a New York City-based residency
program that brings playwriting to universities as a vehicle for
storytelling and better understanding the essential social issues of
our time. Cedars and Hansen have been traveling to Omaha to
share their expertise and guide UNO students in this course for the
last several years.
Students are invited to write plays on any medical, healthcare, and
social issues that come to mind. With the ongoing coronavirus
pandemic in spring 2020, students didn’t need to look far for
possible topics.
“Drama is a way that one can grapple with really big, important
social questions,” Cedars says. “And thus far over the years, we
feel more and more certain that's true.”
“Drama is a way that one can grapple with really big, important social questions. And
thus far over the years, we feel more and more certain that's true.”

- Stephen Cedars, Theater for Social Change

The adve
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4. JENNY-EDWIN-HUSBAND
5. JOSEPH
6. JAKE
7. JANICE

GRAND SON
1. TEE JAY
2. TROY
GRAND DAUGHTER
1. JENELYN
2. DIANA
3. GERALDINE
4. ANGELICA
5. KIMBERLY
6. GERARDO JR.
1. JARICH
2. RJ
3. ANGEL
1. TRISHA
2. EJ