As a writer I've been fascinated with scientific themes in my plays. These themes include science history and biography as well as new ideas and inventions. As well as many productions and readings of my science plays I also participate in many exciting science-theatre events:
*** Lauren will be in first ever Playwright In Residence at The Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics starting Jan 2010
*** Lauren will be a featured panelist at the 2010 AAAS Annual Meeting in the "Science in the Theatre" Session , Feb. 17th 2010 in San Diego
*** Lauren's science screenplay GRAND UNIFICATION won a Sloan Screenplay Prize.
*** Lauren's science play EMILIE (soon to be publshed by Sam French) premiered at South Coast Rep Spring of 2009 and her chemistry-inspired play FIRE WORK was featured The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference 2009!
*** Great website for Marin Theatre's tour of SHORT HISTORY here - also includes links to all auxiliary info
*** Lauren is featured in TWO Southern Theatre Magazine articles - one on Science Theatre.
***Lauren's reading of her science play, BACKGROUND, to honor the late Dr. Ralph Alpher in New York City was November 20th, 2008 .This reading was sponsored and hosted by The Graduate Center at City University of New York. Details here.
***Her article on science and theatre in UK based science journal THE SCIENTIST, online NOW!
*** She adaptated Bill Bryson's A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING for high and middle schoolers for Actors Express Theatre in Atlanta, GA. The play will also tour in other cities with the support of City University of New York. Available now!
*** She presented at the Science and Literature Society National Conference last November in New York City.
*** She was a part of the Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science Workshop at The Banff Centre and the Banff International Research Station in Banff, Canada last summer to work on her play BABY M
*** She attended the Krost Symposium on Science and Art October 2005.
*** She attended and spoke at the Science, Theatre, Audience, Reader Conference at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, CA march 2005, on the panel was called "Scientists as Characters in Drama." Listen to Lauren's presentation on scientists as dramatic characters: Click Here.
*** In September of 2004 Sid Perkowitz and Lauren presented at the Theatres of Science Conference at the University of Glamorgan in Wales. Sid's article on the conference for Physics World click here.
*** Lauren's article on Science and Theatre for Hybrid Vigor Magazine click here
*** Article on Lauren and Sid's science-theatre collaboration click here
THEATRE RELIEF ATLANTA is a project designed to raise money for those who need it, and provide a space for artists and performers to respond immediately to the national events around us. Specifically inspired by the need for aid in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Lauren spearheaded and organized this project to bring together over 20 performing artists, and four major theatres companies from all over Atlanta to support an orignal performance based on interviews with evacuees in Atlanta, and including original song, mimetic movement, dance, and poetry. This raw, moving show is based on real events and people. All money raised goes to the Red Cross and Habitat for humanity. The particiapting theaters were Horizon Theatre Co., Alliance Theatre, Actors Express, 7 Stages, and the Academy Theatre. Look for more Theatre Relief Atlanta in the future!
(above) Theatre Relief Atlanta artists Sept. 2005
My science plays include:
BABY M: about maternity and string theory
BACKGROUND: about cosmology
DENISE: about cloning life and love
LEAP: about Isaac Newton (also a screenplay)
MASS: about relativity and Eisntein's daughter
THE PURPLE PLAY: about the chemistry of color
EOMAIA: about Darwin, evolution, and maternity
SHIFT: a 10 minute comedy on pop-culture science
