Join us after the 7:30pm show on Wednesday, March 28, 2019 for a lively conversation with a scholar about their work and thoughts on the production.

Dr. Lee Makowski worked with Don Caspar for 8 years, first as a Ph.D. student and then as a post-doctoral fellow.  Much of his research work since that time has involved developing m
ethods for analysis of fiber diffraction patterns similar in form to that of Photo 51.  In 2010 he moved to Northeastern University where he is now Inaugural Chair of Bioengineering and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

Dr. Daniel A. Kirschner is a professor in biology at Boston College. His current research interests are focused on the structure and dynamic membrane interactions in abnormal nerve myelin, in which alterations have resulted from experimental, pathological, or genetic conditions. To link structure and composition at the molecular, macromolecular and tissue levels in the nervous system, our studies in these areas have utilized x-ray diffraction, microscopy at the light and ultrastructural levels, a variety of protein and lipid biochemical techniques, and molecular modeling

CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Play Readings)

The playwrights’ group Catalyze will stage readings of several short plays inspired by Photograph 51, exploring genetic technology and the consequences of discovery. Different plays will be presented on April 6th and  April 13th.

Catalyze is a group of science, speculative, and slipstream playwrights based out of Central Square Theater.  The Catalyze Playwriting Group is an offshoot of Catalyst Collaborative@MIT (CC@MIT), a collaboration between Central Square Theater and MIT. The Catalyze Playwriting Group writes, workshops, and performs new works of science theatre.

 Dr. Natalie Kuldell leads BioBuilder, a nonprofit organization helps students experience the process of science and engineering. The BioBuilder curriculum takes cutting-edge research projects in synthetic biology and transforms them into teachable modules which are now taught in almost every US state and around the world. A BioBuilder textbook was published by O’Reilly Media. Last year, BioBuilder opened a community lab in Kendall Square’s LabCentral. Dr. Kuldell studied Chemistry as an undergraduate at Cornell, completed her doctoral and post-doctoral work at Harvard Medical School, and taught at Wellesley College before joining the Department of Biological Engineering faculty at MIT in 2003.

When: Friday, April 12 immediately following the production.

Please join us for a post-show conversation on 2/22!

Join professor and historian of theater Barbara Wallace Grossman in conversation about Pygmalion for the here and now, facilitated by director Subrata Das.

Barbara Wallace Grossman is a theatre historian, voice specialist, director, and author with a strong interest in contemporary American musicals. A Professor of Theatre at Tufts University, she was a presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts (1994-1999) and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2000-2005). Vice Chair of the Massachusetts Cultural Council since 2007, she serves on the American Repertory Theater’s Board of Advisors, the Anti-Defamation League’s New England Regional Board, and TheaterWorks for the Jewish Arts Collaborative. In 2016 she and her husband, Steve, received the Thomas M. Menino Memorial Award for Inspired Support of the Arts in Boston, presented by SpeakEasy Stage Company, and were honored with the Terezín Music Foundation’s 2018 Legacy Award last fall.

Professor Grossman teaches a variety of courses at Tufts including The American Musical, Telling American Stories: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musicals from Of Thee I Sing to Hamilton, Confronting Genocide on Stage and Screen, and Voice & Speech – The Art of Confident Expression. As a director, her dramatic work has ranged from Our Country’s Good to Our Class, The Illusion to Arcadia. Musical productions have included A Little Night Music, Parade, Company, Rent, and Kiss Me, Kate.

Subrata Das is the director and cofounder of Stage Ensemble Theater Unit (SETU) (www.setu.us), with a mission to bridge cultural gaps between India and western society. His work as a director has included his own translations of Indian plays, and a hallmark of his approach is to combine entertainment with the dramatization of powerful scripts with social/political content. As both an actor and director, he explores the relationship between Stanislavski’s method acting techniques and his own work in human cognitive thought processing. SETU’s upcoming production is Devdas, adapted from the iconic 1917 Bengali novel by Sharat Chandra Chatterjee, to be staged and published in Spring, 2019. He is a member of the Central Square Theater Board.