Still, the non-profit organization has found a way to stage a play online and honor New York City's healthcare workers at the same time.
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"The Line" takes us to the front line of the fight against COVID-19. The words you hear during this presentation are real, but spoken by actors.
"It was our love letter to health care workers in New York City for their bravery and their sacrifice," co-creator Erik Jensen said.
He and his wife Jessica Blank interviewed some of those workers then transcribed and organized what they heard to create what they call a "documentary play."
"In this moment when we are being tested as a country, we would do well to listen to these health care workers and to look at them as a model of what it really means to take care of each other," she said.
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Erik recruited his co-star from the ABC-TV series "For Life" to play one of the roles, a medical worker from Trinidad.
Nicholas Pinnock spoke to us from London via Zoom, and he used the same technology to act in "The Line."
"This is a whole new medium," he said. "This wasn't television, and it wasn't theater. It was kind of a hybrid medium that hadn't been done before."
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Actors in three different time zones came together to appear in the play.
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I asked Pinnock if this experience left him with more respect for these front line workers.
"Oh, without a doubt, yeah, absolutely, absolutely," he said. "I end up feeling helpless and insignificant with what I do, when you have these people who are saving lives."
You can watch "The Line" for free on YouTube until August 4.
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