MENTAL HEALTH COMEDY TOUR
Headliner: Joe Materese
(Comedy Central, The Late Show with David Letterman, America’s Got Talent)
Host: Preston Gitlin
(Sirius XM, Fox Business, Bloomberg)
90 minutes of standup comedy from professional comedians who suffer from serious mental health issues
30 minutes of comedians opening up about their own mental illness struggles and how they’ve overcome challenges
Q&A with the audience will follow
Thursday, Oct. 17
7 to 9:30 pm
Tabler Arts Center, Black Box Theatre
Stony Brook University
FREE
Questions? email due@stonybrook.edu
This delightfully entertaining standup comedy show is designed to increase awareness about mental health and suicide and fight the stigma linked to mental illness. It is our hope to inspire and open a dialogue, especially with those who may otherwise feel alone.
Sponsored by Stony Brook University’s Division of Undergraduate Education, Department of Family Population and Preventive Medicine and the Mind Body Clinical Research Center, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health.
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DIRECTIONS
Driving
From Nicolls Road:
Take the Main Entrance and turn left onto Circle Road.
Take the first right around the rotary to continue on Circle Road.
Take the first left onto Tabler Drive. Take the first right to continue up the hill.
The Tabler Center is the second building on the left.
From Stony Brook Road:
Turn into campus onto South Drive.
At the second traffic light, turn left onto Marburger Drive.
Continue on Marburger Drive toward the traffic circle.
Continue left around the traffic circle to a stop sign.
At the stop sign make a left onto Tabler Drive.
Take the first right and continue up the hill.
The Tabler Center is the second building on the left.
Walking
From the SAC:
Take the path behind the Student Activities Center past the main Engineering building
to the left of the Heavy Engineering building.
Cross Circle Road.
Take the stairs up the hill.
The Tabler Center is straight ahead and to the left at the top of the stairs.