Exclusive: BET+ is developing a scripted drama series about the Los Angeles Police Department’s Mental Evaluation Unit, from Devon Shepard playwright Lina Patel and Nacelle Company.
Created by Shepard and Patel, the as-yet untitled project is about the Mental Evaluation Unit of the LAPD, which has a therapist ride with an LAPD officer to answer mental health calls.
The logline: After the officer-involved shooting of a mentally ill man, two women – a skeptical police officer and an idealistic clinician – are forced to work together at the razor’s edge where law enforcement meets mental health and the stakes at home and on the job are life and death.
The LAPD’s Meu (Mental Evaluation Unit) has been in existence for over four decades to assist patrol officers with mental health-related calls. According to the LAPD, the program uses a multilayered approach that includes triage by trained dispatchers,...
Created by Shepard and Patel, the as-yet untitled project is about the Mental Evaluation Unit of the LAPD, which has a therapist ride with an LAPD officer to answer mental health calls.
The logline: After the officer-involved shooting of a mentally ill man, two women – a skeptical police officer and an idealistic clinician – are forced to work together at the razor’s edge where law enforcement meets mental health and the stakes at home and on the job are life and death.
The LAPD’s Meu (Mental Evaluation Unit) has been in existence for over four decades to assist patrol officers with mental health-related calls. According to the LAPD, the program uses a multilayered approach that includes triage by trained dispatchers,...
- 2/10/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Kenneth Lonergan, Marcia Gay Harden and Zosia Mamet will partake in the next round of the ongoing livestream series The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues, with this installment raising money for the Release Aging People in Prison campaign.
This marks the 13th round in the series and it will stream Tuesday, June 23rd, on the 24 Hour Plays website and Instagram at 6 p.m. Et.
The Viral Monologues series presents a unique challenge to top playwrights and actors: Each writer is paired with a performer and they’re tasked with writing, rehearsing,...
This marks the 13th round in the series and it will stream Tuesday, June 23rd, on the 24 Hour Plays website and Instagram at 6 p.m. Et.
The Viral Monologues series presents a unique challenge to top playwrights and actors: Each writer is paired with a performer and they’re tasked with writing, rehearsing,...
- 6/23/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Silk Road Theatre Project will begin its 2010 season with the World Premiere of The DNA Trail: A Genealogy of Short Plays about Ancestry, Identity, and Utter Confusion, conceived by Srtp's artistic director Jamil Khoury, commissioned by Silk Road Theatre Project, directed by Steve Scott, and featuring new plays by Philip Kan Gotanda, Velina Hasu Houston, David Henry Hwang, Jamil Khoury, Shishir Kurup, Lina Patel, and Elizabeth Wong.
- 8/19/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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