Science in Theatre Festival
Sans Me, December 9 at 7:00 PM
Can’t Make This Sh*t Up, December 10 at 7:00 PM
Frozen: The Egg Freezing Musical, December 11 at 7:00 PM
In November 2021, Transforma created and produced a sold-out Science in Theatre Festival featured in Forbes and American Theatre Magazine. This year they're being presented at The Tank, Dec 9-11, 2022.
Science in Theatre Festival is a women-driven three-day event where three original science-themed plays and new technologies are presented. Each night an audience watches a new theatrical work, followed by science presentations in the style of TED talks, and roundtables consisting of scientists and artists. The goal of Science in Theatre Festival is to align forms of theater with current scientific research in neuroscience, artificial intelligence, sustainability and epigenetics, and communicate it in a pioneering way of storytelling.
The lineup of commissioned playwrights for Science in Theatre Festival 2022 is the award-winning playwright Zhu Yi (Emerging Artist Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, a member of the Royal Court Theatre`s International Playwrights Programme...), a published author and Pace University literature professor Catalina Florescu and Julia Rosenblatt, Co-Founding Artistic Director of the award-winning HartBeat Ensemble and a Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame “Women Center Stage” Honoree.
On Friday, December 9th at 7:00 PM you can see Catalina Florescu’s Sans me
A play on neuroscience of (lucid) dreaming
On December 10th at 7:00 PM Julia Rosenblatt’s Can't Make This Sh*t Up
If your poop could save the world, would you let it?
On December 11th at 7:00 PM you can catch Zhu Yi’s concert reading of Frozen: The Egg Freezing Musical, a musical about two women’s friendship and their egg freezing journey, with music by Yoonmi Lee
The plays will be followed by science presentations on the topics of:
Neuroscience of (lucid) dreaming, Moran Cerf (Northwestern) on 12/9
Transforming one university campus sewage into electrical power and its own ecological currency, Jaeweon Cho (UNIST) on 12/10
Egg freezing, reproductive rights and policies, Anate Brauer, MD (NYU) on 12/11
Set Design: Oliver Zeller
Music Design: Justin Ethan Mathews
Video Design: Alessandra Cronin
Light Design: Riva Fairhall
*All attendees and artists will be required to display proof of at least 2 doses of a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks while indoors at all times.