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News /March, 2012

PEERS partners with Brian Copeland for special night of his hit play 'The Waiting Period'

Depression and suicide aren't topics to laugh about. Somehow Bay Area media personality, writer and actor Brian Copeland does just that while making you really think seriously about mental health. He delivers a powerful balance of dramatic acting and comedy in his one-man-show The Waiting Period. The play is about Copeland's personal battles with depression and his experience during a 10-day wait for a gun that he plans to use for taking his life. The end of his marriage, death of his grandmother and a car accident that left him temporarily paralyzed triggered Copeland...

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