Women's History Month

Stories of trailblazers, historical and fictional, who changed the world.
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Generously supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

 

 

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What You Are Now

Written By: Sam Chanse
Starring: Carie Kawa, Tess Lina, Joe Ngo, Samantha Quan, Mark Jude Sullivan, Greg Watanabe
Directed By: Anna Lyse Erikson

"Fine theater" —AudioFile Magazine

Are we stuck with our memories – or can we fix them? Pia is a neuroscientist whose research focuses on changing the way we process traumatic experiences. Will Pia’s emotionally distant mother - who survived the Khmer Rouge in 1970’s Cambodia – benefit from her daughter’s work? Or are some things just too terrible to remember?

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Photograph 51

By: Anna Ziegler
Starring: Miriam Margolyes, Matthew Arkin, Maxwell Caulfield, Jon Matthews, Darren RichardsonNick Toren
Directed By: Michael Hackett

"Thrilling, suspenseful, and engaging" —Goodreads Customer Review

Rosalind Franklin was a gifted research scientist who was part of the race to uncover the secrets of DNA in the 1950’s. Her more famous contemporaries Watson and Krick took all the kudos for the discovery of the molecule’s double helix structure—yet it was Franklin’s skill with X-ray diffraction that first uncovered what’s called “the secret of life.” 

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Nan and the Lower Body

By: Jessica Dickey
Starring: Shannon Cochran, Josh Dallas, Ginnifer Goodwin, Richard Schiff
Directed By: Anna Lyse Erikson

"Wonderfully inquisitive science-based theater!" —Audiofile Magazine

Nan takes a prestigious research position working for Dr. George Papanicolaou, the inventor of the Pap smear. The doctor worries Nan's new husband might distract from their important work, but Nan has a secret that could upend everyone's plans for her.

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