The Kind Mind Uses Arts Education to Make Space for Mental Health Conversations

Playbill: As Remi Bader spoke about her experience with mental health, Maya Days reached over and touched her arm. It was a small gesture, but for Stacie Karp Weisbrot, founder of The Kind Mind, it captured much of what she hopes the organization can create: a space where people can speak honestly about difficult experiences and find connection in the process.

The Kind Mind Uses Arts Education to Make Space for Mental Health Conversations

Playbill: As Remi Bader spoke about her experience with mental health, Maya Days reached over and touched her arm. It was a small gesture, but for Stacie Karp Weisbrot, founder of The Kind Mind, it captured much of what she hopes the organization can create: a space where people can speak honestly about difficult experiences and find connection in the process.

Step Up This Season: Behind the Scenes Spring & Summer Mental Health Trainings

Live Design Online: This spring and beyond, the Behind the Scenes Mental Health Initiative is offering a fresh schedule of virtual trainings, giving industry professionals renewed opportunities to build skills that support safer, healthier workplaces. These virtual sessions equip participants to recognize and respond when colleagues are facing mental health or substance use challenges or experiencing bullying and harassment.

Upcoming Webinar – How to Stay Calm, Focused, and Effective on Any Gig

SoundGirls.org: Join us on Monday, February 23, 2026 at 11:00 AM PDT as we host Jessica Chranowski of Pure Life Therapy. Free – and Online – Register Here In collaboration with SoundGirls, this workshop is for people who love working in entertainment… and are sick of feeling fried, foggy, or on edge just to prove they can handle it.

Broadway's Every Brilliant Thing Partnering With Mental Health Tech Non-Profit Project Healthy Minds

Playbill: Broadway's upcoming Every Brilliant Thing has partnered with mental health tech non-profit Project Healthy Minds on an initiative that will bring mental health support resources to audience members throughout the run. The partnership has been established to ensure the Duncan Macmillan-Jonny Donahoe play, which concerns suicide and suicidal ideation, is presented as responsibly as possible.

How To Relieve Stress And Restore Energy

www.lifehack.org: You didn’t get to where you are in life without learning how to relieve stress along the way. But just because you’ve “been there, done that” doesn’t necessarily mean it is going to be easier this time around. Granted life experience will likely have taught you the old refrain, “this too shall pass” but that same life experience will also likely have taught you something about the active role you need to take to combat stress from time to time and how we could all stand to benefit from a stress-busting reboot.

The Unraveling of a Dream. My life in the cast of Hamilton: An American Musical

by daniel james belnavis | Mar, 2021 | An Injustice!: I have never been certain that I would share my experience, my real experience, with the show publicly. I’ve gone back and forth about it a thousand times. It has taken me the better part of a year to write this, not only because of the pain and re-traumatization it brings, or because of the care and intention with which I am trying to handle this material, but because of the fear and anxiety I feel about dissenting from something that is such a major part of the zeitgeist.

Comedians, Poets Confront Seasonal Depression With 'Sadapalooza'

90.5 WESA: Did you hear the one about winters in Olympia, Washington? They’re even longer, and grayer, than the ones in Pittsburgh! So attests Rachel Greene, a Pittsburgh native who relocated to Olympia for college and spent eight years in the Pacific Northwest.

Hack to get rid of Zoom fatigue

www.fastcompany.com: Everyone keeps telling me to go outside! Take a walk! Get some fresh air! But here’s the thing: I like being inside. I like sitting. I’m perfectly happy opening a window for my daily dose of fresh air. Leaving the house (!) for a walk is not the kind of break I want. If I’m going to take a midday break, it’ll be to watch reruns of The Office or do a crossword puzzle.

Combat Fatigue With the Army's 'Aggressive Napping' Strategy

lifehacker.com: After more than a century with an image problem, napping is getting a rebrand, courtesy of the U.S. Army. Many of our perceptions of naps—and the kind of people who take them—go back to Victorian times, when women were seen as physiologically weak and frail and prone to fainting, requiring periods of rest and recovery to get through the day.

Beware the imposter syndrome!

The Tartan: The imposter syndrome monster is an old, grimy beast sitting frightfully atop Carnegie Mellon’s picturesque campus. He creepily laughs as he mocks the students from above, traveling from dorm to dorm until his fury has been unleashed onto the unsuspecting masses. He sends chills down the spines of upperclassmen; even before he visits them, they are anxiously awaiting his return. However, the monster’s favorite meal — the fresh meat of first-year students — is arriving soon.

ESSAY: What I Did For Love, And How I Plan To Do Less

rescripted.org: A strange ritual would often take place in the halls of my university’s theatre center. College students would convene before classes or rehearsals to present the hours of sleep they had claimed the night before. The student who shared the lowest number would wear this insomnia as a badge of honor. Bonus points were awarded if the time spent awake was done at the library, or in the theatre after hours. I perceived this bizarre ritual as a product of the college experience. Little did I know, the professional theatre would not be that different.

It’s Time for a New Labor Movement in the Performing Arts

Current Affairs: I’ll never forget the week I worked 128 hours—without overtime. There are, of course, only 168 hours in a week, and by the time you have worked your 128th, you no longer have professional standards, boundaries, or even much of an identity left. Me, personally? I was cackling at every provocation and blinking too often to chase away sleep. At the time, I was a concert sound engineer, lighting designer, and technical director, and I was in the process of opening a new concert venue (that must remain nameless) in New York City.

Work-Life Balance: Leveling the See-Saw

Remodeling: Remember going to the playground when you were young and riding the see-saw? Some people call it the teeter-totter. Little more than a board centered on a fulcrum, you and a friend would get on each end, alternately pushing one another up and down.

Behind the Scenes Launches Entertainment Industry Therapist Finder

Lighting&Sound America Online - News: The Behind the Scenes Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Initiative, in partnership with HelpPRO, announces the launch of the Entertainment Industry Therapist Finder btshelp.org/findatherapist. The Finder only includes listings for mental health professionals who have previously worked with clients in the entertainment industry or who have personal professional experience in the industry themselves.

How to Face Uncertainty

SoundGirls.org: When we don’t know how things are going to turn out? Feeling insecure because you don’t know if what you are doing will work or not? How do you handle instability? Are you positive and think that everything will be fine? Or do you start thinking about the worst? Do you lean towards the ends?

Where to Find Free Mental Health Resources During the Pandemic

lifehacker.com: If you feel like you’re struggling with your mental health, you’re not alone. Many of us are dealing with profound uncertainty and unanticipated stress, whether we’re worried about our health, our finances, our families, or how we’re going to make it through the next month of physical distancing and self-isolation.

Mental Health & Circus; The Elephant in the Room– Crucial Resources and a Call for Action

CircusTalk: The mental health of the circus performer informs the work they make. The mind tells the body what to do and the mental game is such an important part of performance and skill. So why then is mental health such a taboo topic in the circus community? Perhaps it is because the community is just a microcosm of our society and thus it takes on the characteristics of the larger society. Nevertheless, I found that there is not much access to research about the mental health of circus performers and the specific challenges that they face, let alone research about treatments specific to circus performers. More research and mental health training in schools and studios would lead to a healthier industry, better art, less lawsuits, and happier performers.

Blackout to undertake pioneering mental health research at PLASA 2019

ETNow.com: The team behind the six-minute immersive mental health installation Blackout has revealed that they will be running a pioneering industry evaluation alongside their exhibition experience at this year’s PLASA Show at London Olympia from Sunday 15 to Tuesday 17 September 2019.

Finding a Way to Love 'Phantom' After Trauma

Theatre Development Fund – TDF: When someone says she has a complicated relationship in her life, she's usually referring to her mother or an ex. But for me, my most complicated relationship is with my favorite musical: The Phantom of the Opera.