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Please join us on May 28th at 7 PM for the fifth installment of Theater of War Productions’ new long-form journalism series at WNYC . The acclaimed actors Gary Farmer ( Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Smoke Signals), Irma-Estel Laguerre ( Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Blue Bloods, The Undoing), Tanis Parenteau ( Billions, House of Cards, Sweet Summer Pow-Wow), and Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba, Stand and Deliver, Prodigal Son) will perform “ Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care ,” written by Rebecca Nagle for The Atlantic, as a catalyst for a guided audience discussion about the lasting impact of long COVID on individuals and communities nationwide. Rebecca, a prominent Native American/Cherokee activist and journalist, writes movingly about her own struggle with long COVID and the challenges she, her community, and 1 in 20 Americans have faced accessing treatment and care for the disease. The event will be recorded with a live studio audience and broadcast several weeks later on WNYC.Co-Presented by Theater of War Productions and WNYC, with special thanks to The Atlantic.Supported by a generous grant from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.Directed and facilitated by Bryan Doerries.