THE LINE is a new play by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen created in the award-winning documentary style that brought you The Exonerated, Aftermath, and Coal Country.
Crafted from firsthand interviews with New York City medical first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic, THE LINE cuts through the media and political noise to reveal the lived experiences of frontline medical workers in New York and their battle to save lives in a system built to serve the bottom line.
Watching this play in summer 2020, during lockdown, was like getting a dispatch from the frontlines of the pandemic. Blank and Jensen found seven remarkable people to tell their stories. There is only a little creative rearranging to reveal similarities and themes in the testimonies.