Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration

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

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