" I sought to reflect the culture in a provocative script grounded in research in order to create a performance that might result in a participative dialogue and raise awareness about inequities compromising individual freedom and autonomy for older persons living in low income supportive living housing." C. McLean

Cheryl McLean M.A., Creative Arts Therapies, Concordia University, Montreal, B.A. Social Sciences, University of Western Ontario London , is an educator, therapist and dramatist Member of The National Association of Drama therapy and Canadian Counselling Association.

• l5 years adult education and training
• drama therapist in mental health and gerontology
• publishing includes numerous articles and essays on themes addressing challenges of modern living, change and survival
• research interests ethnodrama, transforming therapeutic field work into performance for social and systemic change and empathic embodiment training for health professionals working in gerontology
• writer/actor in solo research ethnodrama "Remember Me for Birds" based on field work with older persons in mental health in low income supportive living housing in Montreal, Quebec. Premiered Rene Cassin Institute of Social Gerontology, Quebec, 2003, featured at universities and national conferences Canada and U.S., currently touring, invited symposia, Scientific Committee XVIII World Congress on Gerontology, Rio de Janeiro Brazil for June 2005.

Email cmvoice@rogers.com