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.

The founder and director of STAGE is Nancy Kawalek, a Studio Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Script Competition The STAGE International Script Competition awards a $10,000 prize to the best new play about science and technology.

Past Judges A panel of artists and scientists serve as jurors for each cycle of the competition. 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 Elyse Singer for Frequency Hopping Anna Ziegler for Photograph 51 Craig Baxter for The Altruists

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.

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

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