Emily at the Edge of Chaos
With Lawrence Krauss and Janna Levin
With Lawrence Krauss and Janna Levin
Saturday, June 13, 2009, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
In this one-woman show, join writer/comedian Emily Levine on two parallel journeys: from Newton's rational universe to the universe of chaos and from her own perfect health to mysterious, devastating illness. A surprising, thought-provoking and entertaining meditation on what the lessons of science can teach us about ourselves, followed by a conversation with physicists Lawrence Krauss and Janna Levin.
Marcia Jean Kurtz, Director. Ray Recht, Set & Lighting Designer. Developed at the Ensemble Studio Theatre as part of the EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Project for plays about Science & Technology
Participants:
Internationally known theoretical physicist and best-selling author Lawrence Krauss has focused his research on the intersection on cosmology and elementary particle physics. Dr. Krauss’s work addresses questions about the origin of matter in the universe, Einstein’s theory of general relativity, astrophysics, the future of the universe and the properties and description of the dark energy that is thought to account for most of the universe’s present energy content.
Janna Levin researches the early universe, chaos and black holes. Her second book, a novel called A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines (Knopf 2006), won the PEN/Bingham Fellowship for Writers that honors debut fiction. She is also the author of the popular science book “How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space.”
Emily Levine has recently upgraded herself to Emily 3.0. Emily 1.0 was a stand-up comedian, appearing in comedy clubs and on Dave Letterman’s "Late Night” TV show, among others. Emily 2.0 was a television writer/producer, working on shows such as "Designing Women", "Love and War" and "Dangerous Minds". At Universal Studios and The Walt Disney Company, she created and produced pilots for ABC, NBC, CBS and HBO.
