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

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and the California NanoSystems Institute at the

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. ''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 *

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- and

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-winning playwright

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*Tony-, Oliver-, and

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–winning playwright

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*Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright

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in physics Sir Anthony Leggett, KBE *Nobel Laureate in chemistry

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*Nobel Laureate in physics

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Past winners

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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 *

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Michael Gazzaniga Michael S. Gazzaniga (born December 12, 1939) is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the USA, where he heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. He is one of the leading researchers in cognitiv ...

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* Scott Grafton, MD * Geoffrey Grinstein, PhD * Nancy Kawalek *

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, MD * James Lashly *

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, PhD * Deb Norton

References

External links

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