Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration (STAGE) was created in 2005 to encourage collaboration between artists and scientists. Originally, it began as a partnership between the Professional Artists Lab and the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara. STAGE, which is housed at California NanoSystems Institute, hosts a biennial international script competition and a Collaboratory.[1]
The founder and director of STAGE is Nancy Kawalek, a Studio Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2]
Script Competition
The STAGE International Script Competition awards a $10,000 prize to the best new play about science and technology.[3]
Past Judges
A panel of artists and scientists serve as jurors for each cycle of the competition.[4] Judges have included
- Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright David Auburn
- Tony-, Oliver-, and Obie Award–winning playwright John Guare
- Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire
- Nobel laureate in physics Sir Anthony Leggett, KBE
- Nobel laureate in chemistry Alan Heeger
- Nobel laureate in physics David Gross
Past winners
Playwrights who have won the competition include
- Jamie Pachino for Splitting Infinity[5]
- Elyse Singer for Frequency Hopping[6]
- Anna Ziegler for Photograph 51[7]
- Craig Baxter for The Altruists[8]
The Collaboratory
In 2009, STAGE launched The Collaboratory, an artistic laboratory for the development of theatrical works that have a multi-media component and that feature science and technology. The first play being created in The Collaboratory is The Brain Project.[9]
The Brain Project
Participants of The Brain Project include
- Alyssa Anderson
- Dwier Brown
- Michael Gazzaniga, PhD
- Angela Goethals
- Scott Grafton, MD
- Geoffrey Grinstein, PhD
- Nancy Kawalek
- Kenneth Kosik, MD
- James Lashly
- Maurizio Seracini, PhD
- Deb Norton
References
- ↑ "STAGE". Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ↑ "Film and Media Studies:Nancy Kawalek". Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ↑ Matt Kettmann. "Third Annual Playwriting Competition Puts Science on the Stage". Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ↑ "Tony, Olivier, Pulitzer & Nobel Winners to Judge International Script Competition in 2010". broadwayworld.com. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ↑ "Science Friday Video: Splitting Infinity". Science Friday. Archived from the original on 26 October 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ↑ "Frequency Hopping". Hourglass Group. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ↑ Gordon Cox (5 August 2008). "Anna Ziegler wins Stage competition". Variety. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ↑ "Awards and Prizes". American Theatre. Archived from the original on 14 April 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ↑ "STAGE Collaboratory". Retrieved 25 October 2011.
External links
- STAGE
- Professional Artists Lab
- CNSI
- Dwier Brown at the Internet Movie Database
- Angela Goethals at the Internet Movie Database
- James Lashly at the Internet Movie Database
- Jamie Pachino at the Internet Movie Database
