Left column: Taylor A. Blackman and Allyson Dwyer. Top row, proper: Jake Brasch, Meghan Brown, Cayenne Douglass. Middle row: Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin, Amy Jo Jackson, Victor Lesniewski. Bottom row: Matthew Paul Olmos, SEVAN, Vern Thiessen.
NEW YORK CITY: Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have introduced their new EST/Sloan Project commissions for the 2022-2023 season. Begun in 1998, the EST/Sloan Project is an initiative designed to stimulate artists to create credible and compelling work exploring the worlds of science and know-how, and to problem the prevailing stereotypes of scientists and engineers within the well-liked creativeness. EST will proceed their partnership with the Sloan Foundation via the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project.
The 2022/23 Sloan Commission recipients and performs are:
Taylor A. Blackman, whose To Infinity follows a mother-and-son pair of scientists who differ on the way forward for humanity over Thanskgiving dinner.
Jake Brasch, whose Why The Sun Goes Down includes a person who wakes up from a routine surgical procedure in an Elmo costume at an East Village diner and should piece collectively what occurred to him.
Meghan Brown’s BIGFOOT is a couple of disgraced physicist who should reckon together with her broken fame and with the ability of conspiracy theories.
Cayenne Douglass’s Girl Talk tells the story of a feminine geophysicist and cartologist within the Nineteen Fifties whose work is initially dismissed attributable to sexism however who wins over a skeptical male colleague.
Allyson Dwyer’s Extraordinary Machine takes inspiration from the late pc programmer and activist Aaron Swartz and the methods his relationship with know-how and his story mirror the arc, and the usually unmet potential, of the web.
Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin’s Torque Bitch follows three feminine excessive schoolers and their quest to win a regional science honest regardless of the distracting charms of their apparent foe, Science Boy.
Amy Jo Jackson’s Grace/Bliss is a couple of lady who retreats to her grandmother’s outdated home to nurse her disappoinments, solely to unearth a correspondence between two early Twentieth-century botanists.
Victor Lesniewski’s Untitled Big Data Play traces the origins of information assortment again to the Nineteen Seventies, with particular deal with the engineering behind databases and knowledge anonymization methods.
Matthew Paul Olmos’s monk seal homicide to start with airs a debate over ecological steadiness and Indigeneity on an undisclosed island the place somebody has been killing monk seals.
SEVAN’s play Sameera’s Shadow tells the true story of an all however forgotten Egyptian Muslim lady scientist, Sameera Moussa, who, whereas looking for a treatment for most cancers, found a breakthrough components that made the atomic bomb potential.
Vern Thiessen’s Scent phases a battle royale between two French perfumers throughout WWII.
In addition to awarding artist commissions, the EST/Sloan Project additionally affords grants to regional theatres via the EST/Sloan Project’s National Partnership for New Plays, which helps theatres nationwide who want to sponsor a neighborhood venture targeted on science and know-how, both by commissioning a brand new script or growing an present piece. For the 2022/23 season, grants have been awarded to Hartford Stage in Connecticut for Her Math Play by Christina Pumariega, and Central Square Theater in Cambridge, Mass., for Beyond Words by Laura Maria Censabella.
Ensemble Studio Theatre’s mission is to develop and produce authentic, provocative, and genuine new work. The theatre is thought for its biennial Marathon of One-Act Plays, a vital a part of the New York theatre scene because it launched in 1977. As of the 2023 fiscal yr, EST has a price range of roughly $1.9 million.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation makes grants to assist authentic analysis and schooling associated to science, know-how, engineering, arithmetic, and economics. They consider {that a} reasoned, systematic understanding of the forces of nature and society can result in a greater world for all.
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