Our HERstories
GET TO KNOW OUR TEAM
Lenice Bozeman, Loretta Embry (Vice Pres.), Sabrina Health (Vice Pres.), Denise Richmond-Kelley, Kim Martin Sadler, Bernadette Scruggs (President), DeVonna White, and Cheryl Williams
SHOWS
SHOWS/ Survivors Helping Other Women Survive began in 2009 when Bridgette A. Wimberly, a produced NYC playwright, poet and librettist, collaborated with The Gathering Place and Karamu House Theatre to teach a play writing class to breast cancer survivors and subsequently have their work performed on stage. We were funded by Susan G. Komen, NE, Ohio For the Cure. Our plays highlight the breast cancer experience from initial diagnosis to the celebration of survivorship.
FROM BREAST CANCER to BROADWAY
Our play, From Breast Cancer to Broadway, became a series of 11 short plays interwoven into one. It sold out at the Cleveland Play House within 2 hours, well before word got out that the legendary Ruby Dee would be starring in it!!!
OVER THE YEARS, WE HAVE PERFORMED OR PRESENTED AT NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCHES, HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY CENTERS, HOUSING COMPLEXES, LIBRARIES, HUNGER NETWORK PROGRAMS, SORORITY EVENTS, JOB SITES, HEALTH SYMPOSIUMS, THEATERS AND CITY HALL. OUR PLAY WAS PERFORMED FOR 5 WEEKS AT KARAMU HOUSE THEATRE AS PART OF THEIR 2010-2011 THEATER SEASON.
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
- THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE with RUBY DEE (2010 )
- KARAMU HOUSE THEATRE (2010-2011 theater season)
- SUSAN G. KOMEN SYMPOSIUM (2010, 2017, 2018, 2019)
- THE CHERRY LANE THEATRE IN NYC with RUBY DEE (2010, 2011, 2013)
- PERGONES THEATRE in NYC (2013)
- MEDICAL MUTUAL'S CLEVELAND 'HATTITUDE' (2014, 2015)
- MEDICAL MUTUAL'S TOLEDO 'HATTITUDE' (2016)
- MEDICAL MUTUAL'S COLUMBUS 'HATTITUDE' (2016)
- CLEVELAND CITY HALL (2017)
- DANITA HARRIS' S.H.I.N.E. CELEBRATION (2017)
- CWRU COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER (2018)
- CWRU CANCER DISPARITIES SYMPOSIUM (2018, 2019)
2015
WE WERE AWARDED THE MEDICAL MUTUAL DEBRA A. GREEN COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD.