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The COVID Theater Think Tank
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he COVID Theatre Think Tank (CTT) announced that on Thursday April 1st at 2pm ET, they will host a national town hall for the theatre industry to address the current state of the virus, what lies ahead,
and what it means for the reopening of theatre across the country. Key advisers to CTT including Infectious Disease Epidemiologist and Economist Blythe Adamson; CUNY Graduate School of Public Health Professor Bruce
Lee; White House Senior Advisor for the COVID-19 Response Andy Slavitt; SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education Teresa Y. Smith and more speakers to be announced, will be on hand to discuss these matters and share the latest information and insights into the vaccination efforts, effect of the variants, and other important factors in the timeline to reopening. This will be the first of several CTT Town Halls, which are intended to help the theatre industry hear directly from experts in order to move toward reopening with a common understanding of the underlying sci-
ence and conditions. The Town Hall is free to attend and open to theatre industry professionals in all roles. Registration is now open at https://www.eventbrite. com/e/covid-theatre-townhall-tickets. COVID-19 THEATRE THINK-TANK (CTT) is a self-organized consortium of theatre professionals across the nation,
representing multiple disciplines and corners of the industry from Broadway to Off-Broadway and Regional theater makers, has joined forces with leading front-line health experts, including faculty from the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health, to research the unique challenges facing the theater industry emerging from the
pandemic. Through study and analysis, CTT aims to assess what the evolving scientific understanding of COVID-19 means for theaters, their employees, and audiences, and serve as a resource for theaters of all types and sizes nationwide, as well as individual artists, unions, guilds and organizations. www.covidtheatrethinktank.org
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Harlem Community Newspapers | April 1. 2021
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