Wednesday, December 31, 2025
I gave flu shots backstage on Broadway
STAT: For the past two and a half months, I’ve spent many afternoons in the hidden spaces of New York’s performing arts world — its dressing rooms, rehearsal studios, green rooms, and backstage corridors. I’m a physician, and this fall I volunteered as one of two clinicians administering shots for the Entertainment Community Fund’s annual flu vaccination program, presented in partnership with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
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This is actually so incredible and I am so glad there are people in the world who have dedicated their time to volunteering for causes like these. Especially in the theater world if you get sick, it will spread so easily to everyone else in your cast and crew and there's nothing you can do if the entire company gets sick, people in the theater industry are forced to come back to work before they are healed, spreading their sickness to people around them and overall harming their abilities to heal quickly. It’s become so normalized post covid to ignore flu/ covid symptoms unless you test positive and even then you're only required to wear a mask not even stay home. I feel like sometimes higher ups in the theater industry can care more about a show going up or rehearsals running smoothly with all members there than they do about people's health, which is why these shots backstage were probably so needed and appreciated by cast and crew members working those shows.
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