Break A Leg Productions

The Art of Science Reading Series

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 Wednesday, May 26, 2010
6:30PM

"W=S"
by
Ivan K. Schuller and Adam Smith

CUNY Graduate Center
*Free Admission*

In the spring 2002, we were asked to produce the science play "Oxygen." Because of the positive response, both from the audience and the members of Break A Leg Productions, we have continued to present similar projects.

"Starry Messenger"
by Ira Hauptman
Starry Messenger
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Directed by Christopher Bellis

With

Teri Black*, Aaron Dean*, Dave Droxler*,Philip M. Gardiner*, Michael Gilpin*, Martha Lopez Gilpin*, Susan Richard*, Richard Seff*,
and Larry Swansen*.



*Members of Actors' Equity Association

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February 26, 2009
CUNY Graduate Center

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November 10, 2008


Uranium + Peaches
A Play in One Act
by Peter Cook and William Lanouette

The scientist behind the bomb wants to stop it...
The politician behind the President wants to drop it...

In the dramatic and fateful confrontation between Einstein's protégé, Leo Szilard, and Truman's mentor, Jimmy Byrnes, science battles politics in the timeless struggle aginst the corruption of human ingenuity.  See http://www.uraniumandpeaches.com/




CUNY Graduate Center, Elebash Hall
365 5th Avenue @34th Street

world_science_festival.jpgWorld Science Festival Performance
of
"Oxygen"
By
Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann
Directed by Christopher Bellis


With
Teri Black*, Phil Garfinkel*, Scott Glascock*, Judy Jerome*, Michael Kennealy*, Donna Lee Michaels, Stephanie Wortel, and Elizabeth York*

May 29, 2008
CUNY Graduate Center

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Fission
By Jacques and Olivier Treiner
Translated by Ed and Rebecca Schonberg

Directed by Christopher Bellis

With Teri Black*, Chris Ceraso*, Jarel Davido* , Larry Swansen*, Martha Lopez Gilpin*, Michael Kennealy*, Phil Garfinkel*, Jerry Vermilye*

French father-son team Jacques and Olivier Treiner premiered a new translation of their prize-winning play Fission at the Art of Science Reading Series. Staged in an airy hall of the CUNY Graduate Center, the play depicts the race to create an atomic bomb on both sides of the Atlantic. Fission is as much a celebration of scientific imagination as it is an examination of the ethical issues of one of the most significant inventions of the twentieth century.


April 24, 2008
at the CUNY Graduate Center
Moving Bodies

A staged reading of the play dramatizing the life of Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Richard Feynman.

Staged Reading
CUNY Graduate Center
May 2, 2005
An Evening With Einstein
Mass
(World Premiere)
The Day That Einstein Died

Two one-act plays celebrating the life of Albert Einstein

CUNY Graduate Center
April 18, 2005
Pierre and Marie

A play about the life and times of the Curies. Based on the play, Les Palmes de M. Schutz by Jean-Noël Fenwick and adapted by Ron Clark.

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Full Production
October 21-November 7, 2004
Workshop Theatre, NYC

Staged Reading
December 8, 2003
Elebash Recital Hall
at the CUNY Graduate Center
Thread of Life

Scenes from this play about Rosalind Franklin and the role she played in the discovery of the structure of DNA performed as part of a program entitled "Science As Performance." Written by Rita Nachtmann.

Staged Readings
March 10, 2003 and July 23, 2003
Elebash Recital Hall
at the CUNY Graduate Center

Remembering Miss Meitner & Background

A Staged Reading of two new science plays. Remembering Miss Meitner written by Robert Marc Friedman. Background written by Lauren Gunderson.

May 19, 2003
Elebash Recital Hall
at the CUNY Graduate Center

Oxygen

A Staged Reading of the first "science" play we were asked to produce. Written by Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffman

May 20, 2002
Elebash Recital Hall
at the CUNY Graduate Center

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