LA Theatre Works

Nan and the Lower Body is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

Hear our interview with playwright Jessica Dickey and LATW Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg.

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This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

Nan takes a prestigious research position working for Dr. George Papanicolaou, the inventor of the Pap smear. The doctor worries Nan's new husband might distract from their important work, but Nan has a secret that could upend everyone's plans for her.

Includes an interview with playwright Jessica Dickey.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in November 2023.  

Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:

Shannon Cochran as Mache Papanicolaou

Josh Dallas as Ted Day

Ginnifer Goodwin as Nan Day

Richard Schiff as Dr. George Papanicoloaou

Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson

Prepared for Audio by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Recorded, edited, designed, and mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner

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This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

Nan takes a prestigious research position working for Dr. George Papanicolaou, the inventor of the Pap smear. The doctor worries Nan's new husband might distract from their important work, but Nan has a secret that could upend everyone's plans for her.

Includes an interview with playwright Jessica Dickey.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in November 2023.  

Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:

Shannon Cochran as Mache Papanicolaou

Josh Dallas as Ted Day

Ginnifer Goodwin as Nan Day

Richard Schiff as Dr. George Papanicoloaou

Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson

Prepared for Audio by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Recorded, edited, designed, and mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

Nan takes a prestigious research position working for Dr. George Papanicolaou, the inventor of the Pap smear. The doctor worries Nan's new husband might distract from their important work, but Nan has a secret that could upend everyone's plans for her.

Includes an interview with playwright Jessica Dickey.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in November 2023.  

Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:

Shannon Cochran as Mache Papanicolaou

Josh Dallas as Ted Day

Ginnifer Goodwin as Nan Day

Richard Schiff as Dr. George Papanicoloaou

Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson

Prepared for Audio by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Recorded, edited, designed, and mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

In Vichy, France, in 1942, nine men are detained under a shadowy pretext. As the tension builds, the men are questioned – are they the sort of people whom the new Nazi regime considers "inferior?"

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in February 2002.

Directed by Richard Masur

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:

Ben Diskin as A Boy

Arye Gross as Bayard, An Electrician

Jamie Hanes as Rom/Police Captain

Andrew Hawkes as A Major

Gregory Itzin as Monceau, An Actor

Robert Lesser as Police Guard/Marchand, A Businessman/Ferrand, A Café Proprietor

Jon Matthews as Lebeau, A Painter

Lawrence Pressman as Von Berg, A Prince

Raphael Sbarge as Leduc, A Doctor

Armin Shimerman as First Detective/Professor Hoffman

Shahar Sorek as A Waiter/Second Detective

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This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. What happened inside room 306 on the evening of April 3rd is the subject of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop. Hours after King’s final speech, punctuated by his immortal line, “I’ve been to the mountaintop,” the celebrated Reverend forms an unlikely friendship with a motel maid as they talk into the early hours of what will be his final day.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in May 2016.

Directed by Roger Guenveur Smith

Aja Naomi King as Camae

Larry Powell as Dr. Martin Luther King

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Hear our interview with Kindertransport survivor Hilda Fogelson, recorded in 2013.

Sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Diane Samuels’ play about families, secrets and survival takes us to the days of the impending Holocaust. As conditions deteriorated in Germany in the 1930s, many tried in vain to escape. But thanks to a British humanitarian effort, about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and neighboring countries were relocated to live with families in the United Kingdom, while their parents stayed behind. This passage to freedom became known as Kindertransport.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in June 2013.

Directed by Jeanie Hackett

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Jane Kaczmarek as Helga

Hugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/Others

Shannon Lee Clair as Eva

Angela Paton as Lil

Molly C. Quinn as Faith

Susan Sullivan as Evelyn

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This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Diane Samuels’ play about families, secrets and survival takes us to the days of the impending Holocaust. As conditions deteriorated in Germany in the 1930s, many tried in vain to escape. But thanks to a British humanitarian effort, about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and neighboring countries were relocated to live with families in the United Kingdom, while their parents stayed behind. This passage to freedom became known as Kindertransport.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in June 2013.

Directed by Jeanie Hackett

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Jane Kaczmarek as Helga

Hugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/Others

Shannon Lee Clair as Eva

Angela Paton as Lil

Molly C. Quinn as Faith

Susan Sullivan as Evelyn

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Diane Samuels’ play about families, secrets and survival takes us to the days of the impending Holocaust. As conditions deteriorated in Germany in the 1930s, many tried in vain to escape. But thanks to a British humanitarian effort, about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and neighboring countries were relocated to live with families in the United Kingdom, while their parents stayed behind. This passage to freedom became known as Kindertransport.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in June 2013.

Directed by Jeanie Hackett

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Jane Kaczmarek as Helga

Hugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/Others

Shannon Lee Clair as Eva

Angela Paton as Lil

Molly C. Quinn as Faith

Susan Sullivan as Evelyn

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Diane Samuels’ play about families, secrets and survival takes us to the days of the impending Holocaust. As conditions deteriorated in Germany in the 1930s, many tried in vain to escape. But thanks to a British humanitarian effort, about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and neighboring countries were relocated to live with families in the United Kingdom, while their parents stayed behind. This passage to freedom became known as Kindertransport.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in June 2013.

Directed by Jeanie Hackett

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Jane Kaczmarek as Helga

Hugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/Others

Shannon Lee Clair as Eva

Angela Paton as Lil

Molly C. Quinn as Faith

Susan Sullivan as Evelyn

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Based on Natasha Trethewey’s collection of poems, The Alliance Theatre’s production of Native Guard is both an elegy to her mother and a journey into Mississippi’s Civil War history. Trethewey’s work was the winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. This recording was produced with the generous support of The Poetry Foundation.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in July 2018.

Directed by Rosalind Ayres

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Neal A. Ghant as The Native Guard

January LaVoy as The Poet

Nicole Banks Long as Vocalist

Tyrone Jackson as Keyboard/Composer/Music Director

Associate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse Erikson

Associate Producer, Studio Production Coordinator, and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

Production Assistant: Amanda Allen

Recording Engineer: Erick Cifuentes

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Based on Natasha Trethewey’s collection of poems, The Alliance Theatre’s production of Native Guard is both an elegy to her mother and a journey into Mississippi’s Civil War history. Trethewey’s work was the winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. This recording was produced with the generous support of The Poetry Foundation.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in July 2018.

Directed by Rosalind Ayres

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Neal A. Ghant as The Native Guard

January LaVoy as The Poet

Nicole Banks Long as Vocalist

Tyrone Jackson as Keyboard/Composer/Music Director

Associate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse Erikson

Associate Producer, Studio Production Coordinator, and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

Production Assistant: Amanda Allen

Recording Engineer: Erick Cifuentes

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Based on Natasha Trethewey’s collection of poems, The Alliance Theatre’s production of Native Guard is both an elegy to her mother and a journey into Mississippi’s Civil War history. Trethewey’s work was the winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. This recording was produced with the generous support of The Poetry Foundation.

Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in July 2018.

Directed by Rosalind Ayres

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Neal A. Ghant as The Native Guard

January LaVoy as The Poet

Nicole Banks Long as Vocalist

Tyrone Jackson as Keyboard/Composer/Music Director

Associate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse Erikson

Associate Producer, Studio Production Coordinator, and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

Production Assistant: Amanda Allen

Recording Engineer: Erick Cifuentes

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Hear our conversation with Judge Bruce Einhorn, who served at the Justice Department supervising litigation against Nazi war criminals. Recorded at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in September 2015 after a performance of the play.

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This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Abby Mann’s classic story about the Nuremberg trials, under which German leaders were found guilty of crimes against humanity in 1945 and 1946. Even today, the play remains a shattering indictment of the consequences of unchecked authority and the seductive power of group thought.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The UCLA James Bridges Theater in September 2015.

Honorary Executive Producer: David Kavner. Special thanks to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.

Directed by Shannon Cochran

Ryan Vincent Anderson as Captain Byers/Narrator/Others

Michael Canavan as Dr. Wickert/Dr. Geuter

Jake Green as Judge Norris/Hoffstetter/Rudolph Peterson

Harry Hamlin as Emil Hahn/General Merrin

Shannon Holt as Mrs. Halbestadt/Elsa Lindow

Alan Mandell as Judge Ives/Werner Lammpe

James Morrison as Judge Dan Haywood

David Selby as Colonel Parker

Kate Steele as Margarete Bertholt/Maria

Nick Toren as Oscar Rolfe

John Vickery as Ernst Janning

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Abby Mann’s classic story about the Nuremberg trials, under which German leaders were found guilty of crimes against humanity in 1945 and 1946. Even today, the play remains a shattering indictment of the consequences of unchecked authority and the seductive power of group thought.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The UCLA James Bridges Theater in September 2015.

Honorary Executive Producer: David Kavner. Special thanks to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.

Directed by Shannon Cochran

Ryan Vincent Anderson as Captain Byers/Narrator/Others

Michael Canavan as Dr. Wickert/Dr. Geuter

Jake Green as Judge Norris/Hoffstetter/Rudolph Peterson

Harry Hamlin as Emil Hahn/General Merrin

Shannon Holt as Mrs. Halbestadt/Elsa Lindow

Alan Mandell as Judge Ives/Werner Lammpe

James Morrison as Judge Dan Haywood

David Selby as Colonel Parker

Kate Steele as Margarete Bertholt/Maria

Nick Toren as Oscar Rolfe

John Vickery as Ernst Janning

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Abby Mann’s classic story about the Nuremberg trials, under which German leaders were found guilty of crimes against humanity in 1945 and 1946. Even today, the play remains a shattering indictment of the consequences of unchecked authority and the seductive power of group thought.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The UCLA James Bridges Theater in September 2015.

Honorary Executive Producer: David Kavner. Special thanks to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.

Directed by Shannon Cochran

Ryan Vincent Anderson as Captain Byers/Narrator/Others

Michael Canavan as Dr. Wickert/Dr. Geuter

Jake Green as Judge Norris/Hoffstetter/Rudolph Peterson

Harry Hamlin as Emil Hahn/General Merrin

Shannon Holt as Mrs. Halbestadt/Elsa Lindow

Alan Mandell as Judge Ives/Werner Lammpe

James Morrison as Judge Dan Haywood

David Selby as Colonel Parker

Kate Steele as Margarete Bertholt/Maria

Nick Toren as Oscar Rolfe

John Vickery as Ernst Janning

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Abby Mann’s classic story about the Nuremberg trials, under which German leaders were found guilty of crimes against humanity in 1945 and 1946. Even today, the play remains a shattering indictment of the consequences of unchecked authority and the seductive power of group thought.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The UCLA James Bridges Theater in September 2015.

Honorary Executive Producer: David Kavner. Special thanks to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.

Directed by Shannon Cochran

Ryan Vincent Anderson as Captain Byers/Narrator/Others

Michael Canavan as Dr. Wickert/Dr. Geuter

Jake Green as Judge Norris/Hoffstetter/Rudolph Peterson

Harry Hamlin as Emil Hahn/General Merrin

Shannon Holt as Mrs. Halbestadt/Elsa Lindow

Alan Mandell as Judge Ives/Werner Lammpe

James Morrison as Judge Dan Haywood

David Selby as Colonel Parker

Kate Steele as Margarete Bertholt/Maria

Nick Toren as Oscar Rolfe

John Vickery as Ernst Janning

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Listen to our interview with actor and educator Alma Martinez, an original Zoot Suit cast member.

Sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.