Constance H. Gemson
Author & Playwright
About me
Constance H. Gemson
My essays are in the following books:
- How to Cultivate a Multi-Cultural Workforce from Training and Development Yearbook: 1992-1993.
- An excerpt from A Swim to Find Serenity was included in Creating From the Spirit: Living Each Day as a Creative Act: 1996.
- An in-house publication: Home Again: Here to Stay: a Manual for Culture Change in Long Term Care in 2007: co-author.
- Grace Notes: Singing in Marion's Hospital Room from Narrative in Social Work Practice: the Power and Possibility of Story: 2017.
- Adjunct Blues and Class Notes from The Children of the People by and About CUNY Students on Race and Social Justice.; 2022.
- Closing of My College Department and Swingline Factory from The Invisible Professor: The Precarious Lives of the New Faculty Majority: 2022.
Select writings have been published in:
- Singing Hard Times: Working Life in Five Songs in Portside: 2018
-Twelve Gates to the City in The West Side Spirit: July 2020.
- In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See in The West Side Spirit: July 2021
Previous professional experience includes:
- serving as a teaching artist for a writing program at the Queens Community House at the Forest Hills NORC: 2012.
- leading a weekly writing class for cancer survivors at the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for five years.
- creating the following plays for the Working Theater, an off-Broadway theater company:
Other teaching sites included Castle Senior Living,. Dorot, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, Maple Point Assisted Living, Morningside Retirement and Health Services Inc.
My experience in workshop development is shown in the following seminars:
- Coping with Change: Creating the Future with Confidence
- Creativity: Imagination and Insight.
- Friendship: Connection and Community
- Going Solo: Valuing Your Time Alone
- Managing Stress: What are Your Options
- Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography
Sites include:
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY Presbyterian Hospital Center, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and continues this work.
Constance has been an adjunct lecturer at LaGuardia Community College.
She curated Center Stories of the Upper West Side and Beyond, and Here Comes the Sun. a reading series at the Goddard Riverside Community Center Arts Center.
Background:
As a long time Upper West Sider, she is a lover of her local community garden, and a serious indoor swimmer in all seasons.
My essays are in the following books:
- How to Cultivate a Multi-Cultural Workforce from Training and Development Yearbook: 1992-1993.
- An excerpt from A Swim to Find Serenity was included in Creating From the Spirit: Living Each Day as a Creative Act: 1996.
- An in-house publication: Home Again: Here to Stay: a Manual for Culture Change in Long Term Care in 2007: co-author.
- Grace Notes: Singing in Marion's Hospital Room from Narrative in Social Work Practice: the Power and Possibility of Story: 2017.
- Adjunct Blues and Class Notes from The Children of the People by and About CUNY Students on Race and Social Justice.; 2022.
- Closing of My College Department and Swingline Factory from The Invisible Professor: The Precarious Lives of the New Faculty Majority: 2022.
Select writings have been published in:
- Singing Hard Times: Working Life in Five Songs in Portside: 2018
-Twelve Gates to the City in The West Side Spirit: July 2020.
- In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See in The West Side Spirit: July 2021
Previous professional experience includes:
- serving as a teaching artist for a writing program at the Queens Community House at the Forest Hills NORC: 2012.
- leading a weekly writing class for cancer survivors at the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for five years.
- creating the following plays for the Working Theater, an off-Broadway theater company:
- Cigarette Girl in the South Bronx, 2020
- In an Abandoned Building, 2023
- Carol and Ted, 2023
- Lena's Necklace, 2024
Other teaching sites included Castle Senior Living,. Dorot, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, Maple Point Assisted Living, Morningside Retirement and Health Services Inc.
My experience in workshop development is shown in the following seminars:
- Coping with Change: Creating the Future with Confidence
- Creativity: Imagination and Insight.
- Friendship: Connection and Community
- Going Solo: Valuing Your Time Alone
- Managing Stress: What are Your Options
- Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography
Sites include:
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY Presbyterian Hospital Center, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and continues this work.
Constance has been an adjunct lecturer at LaGuardia Community College.
She curated Center Stories of the Upper West Side and Beyond, and Here Comes the Sun. a reading series at the Goddard Riverside Community Center Arts Center.
Background:
As a long time Upper West Sider, she is a lover of her local community garden, and a serious indoor swimmer in all seasons.
