Secret Lives of the Disabled
becoming
disabled
in
America
an audio docu/pod
featuring
performance artist
sally greenhouse
“Razor sharp observations.”
“Mordantly funny…Swiftian humor.”
“Thinking person's performance artist…hilarious & harrowing.”
What Happened?
It started out an ordinary day like every other morning.
I was driving to a ballet class: got lost.
At a highway exit, a distracted driver on their cell phone,
slammed into my car, breaking my neck.
By the time I got to the hospital, I was paralyzed & dying.
After complicated emergency surgery,
it was discovered the paralysis had reversed.
But I was left Spinal Cord Injured. For life.
I can move, but am in chronic pain and fatigue.
Nobody gets an orientation on how to become disabled in America.
It happens in an instant…and over a period of years.
I lost everything.
Secret Lives of the Disabled
provides insight into what happens in the U.S.
if you or someone you care about become physically disabled,
suddenly, via calamity, or gradually, from chronic illness.
Who am I?
Sally Greenhouse, graduate of Sarah Lawrence College & Harvard Divinity School, is an award-winning Solo Performance Artist/Writer & former dancer, known for her unique satirical monologues in live performances, & videos nationally.
She was awarded the highest honor for artists in Massachusetts, the Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in her genre New Theatre Works for her long running video series The Greenhouse Effect, on which she presented socio-cultural critiques, political commentary, and autobiographical satire. Greenhouse was offered a contract by Comedy Central to appear regularly on The Daily Show before her neck was broken…but that’s another story altogether.
Her accolades include: 7 grants from the Northampton Arts Council, 2 grants from the Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund, inclusion in the Franklin Furnace Performance Art Archive, the first Endowed Residential Fellowship in Performance Art at YADDO, an award for Outstanding Original Solo Performance from the New York State Council for the Arts, fellowships at The Millay Colony, and The Djerassi Foundation. Her performance artwork has been reviewed in: The New York Times, The Boston Globe, High Performance Quarterly, Boston Arts Review, The Boston Phoenix, Theatre Week, Village Voice, Equity Magazine, San Francisco Weekly, Cover Arts Journal, Bay Windows, Woodstock Times, Portland Press Herald, and other media. She is the recipient of a New England Women in Cable Television award for her humorous and engaging style of interviewing. All of this began with being named a recipient of a commission with federal funding by the Cambridge Arts Council “Arts on the Line” for 21 artists of every genre to create artistic events at construction sites along the MBTA Boston Red Line, “to ease passenger inconvenience.”
Available on all major Podcasting platforms
Where have I performed?
PS 122- Avant-Garde-a-Rama
DIA Art Foundation
TWEED Theatre Festival / Vineyard Theatre
The Kitchen
Dixon Place
ICA Boston
Blacksmith House
Back Alley Theatre
Dance Theatre Workshop-Fresh Tracks
Center of Contemporary Art St. Louis
NADA Theatre
Northampton Ctr for the Arts
Plan B Santa Fe
& others
