As NYC battles the Covid-19 pandemic, Tisch alumni have found creative ways to lend a hand.
Drama Alum Javier Muñoz, who starred in Broadway's "Hamilton," is working with the Broadway community to coordinate an effort to produce Personal Protective Equipmment (PPE) for healthcare workers at local hospitals to help keep them safe while treating Covid-19 patients. The Program, titled The Broadway Relief Project, will sew thousands of gowns and masks for hospital workers.
The project began with Javier thinking about how the many tailors working on Broadway, which is currently shuttered, could be put to work sewing protective gear.
"I can’t stitch a thing, but I know a ton of people who can.”
Muñoz linked up with Molly Braverman, director of the Broadway Green Alliance, who sourced fabric that could be repurposed for use in hospitals. Bruce Barish, CEO of Ernest Winzer Cleaners, a family-owned laundry company that dry-cleans Broadway costumes offered his fleet of vans to transport the supplies and finished masks.
“This is so beautiful because the moment I just wanted to do something, I found a sea of people doing the exact same thing.”
Read the full story of how they got it all started on Yahoo News.