"Best New Play" Nominee - 2022 STL Theater Circle
(profanity/adult subjects)
Katie doesn't sugarcoat the difficulty of a spinal cord injury, paralysis, doctors, nurses, occupational therapy, physical therapy, dependency, caregivers, personal care attendants, insurance, dating, sexuality and intimacy, healthy coping mechanisms, depression, anxiety, medication, anger, psychotherapy, counseling, reaching out, parent and sibling relationships, guilt, a 10 year personal injury lawsuit, lawyers, judges, trials, money, healthcare, finding work, writing, sharing, creating and just living! Everything in this play is true and was said. People can be kind and they can be real jerks too. So please, find healthy ways to hang in there. Don't give in or give up. Yes, get mad, cry, curse and go down but there is one thing that can bring us back up.......hope. That saves me every day. I do have hope, sometimes it's a struggle to find, but it is always there for the picking.
Katie, preinjury was mostly the same person I am today. (My high school friends say I haven't changed a bit.) This play will let you in on my journey and is a full self-disclosure of how I have changed. The life lessons are not easy, but I love the wisdom learned.
"Roll With It!" the play written by Katie R. Banister & Michelle Zielinski Based on the memoir "On A Roll" by Katie Rodriguez Banister, Jo Lena Johnson, Andrew Szanton. Available on Amazon or my website www.Awomanonwheels.com
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