Playwrights Realm Playwright Jonathan Payne, The Red Stairs, Juillard, 2018

Playwrights Realm Playwright Jonathan Payne, The Red Stairs, Juillard, 2018

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I’ll tell you a story about a friend of mine, before you all go. Long before he started receiving services, he had hit rock bottom. Spent nights on the streets wondering how he might take his own life. And one night he found it. He would walk into a hotel on the Lower East Side, take the elevator all the way to the top, and jump. And he did that. He jumped. And he died...for a minute. Now he suffers unbearable pain, but at least he can walk. Barely. And now he has services; therapy, a nice little studio apartment to call his own, a doctor, and when he recently caught COVID, he realized he had a new lease on life. He had never been so scared to die. For once in his miserable life he told me he wanted to live. 

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