History Science Theatre
Human stories behind science concepts and discoveries - dramatized with original music! Each season features a different historical science story, brought to life by a full cast of musical actors. History Science Theatre Podcast is a production of Matheatre. We use theatre to tell stories that inspire excitement about math and science. www.matheatre.com
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Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Season One is inspired by the career of Rosalind Franklin: a remarkably prolific scientist in the exciting environment of X-ray crystallography. Many people may know her as the scientist jilted by Watson and Crick for her role in the discovery of the structure of DNA, but Rosalind Franklin's story is not that of a victim. Her scientific work spans from coal to DNA to viruses. Join a cast of 12 as they sing to life one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.
History Science Theatre Podcast is a production of Matheatre. We use theatre to tell stories that inspire excitement about math and science. Visit us at matheatre.com
Join our Patreon at patreon.com/matheatre
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Rosalind Franklin, an expert on coal and carbons, leaves her homeland of England to embark on a new opportunity in Paris--where she learns the experimental skill that will change the course of her career.
History Science Theatre Podcast is a production of Matheatre (www.matheatre.com). We use live theatre to tell stories that inspire excitement about math and science.
Patreon.com/matheatre; Facebook.com/MatheatreSTEAM; Instagram: matheatre_steam
Script by Ricky Coates and Sadie Bowman
Music and lyrics by Sadie Bowman
Edited by Ricky Coates
Outtro orchestration by Joe McMorrow
Featuring (in order of appearance):
Sadie Bowman as Rosalind Franklin
Llysa Holland as Adrienne Weill
Andrew Litzky as Jacques Mering
Ricky Coates as Vittorio Luzzati
Llysa Holland and Andrew Litzky are the "artistic instigators" of the Seattle-based company, theater simple. Their podcast, Park Bench, invites people to "have a seat and have chat" and is currently exploring the civic issues of VOTING, CITIZENSHIP and CREATIVITY in their mini-series Covid Conversations. You can find theater simple’s Park Bench podcast on Podbean or at theatersimple.org. They hope you think globally and act locally.
Stay tuned for Episode Two!
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
An unexpected visitor leaves Rosalind with a dilemma about the scientific mysteries of biological life...and the series of choices that add up to the life of every individual.
History Science Theatre Podcast is a production of Matheatre (www.matheatre.com). We use live theatre to tell stories that inspire excitement about math and science.
Patreon.com/matheatre; Facebook.com/MatheatreSTEAM; Instagram: matheatre_steam
Script by Ricky Coates and Sadie Bowman;
Music and lyrics by Sadie Bowman;
Edited by Ricky Coates;
Outtro orchestration by Joe McMorrow
Featuring (in order of appearance):
Sadie Bowman as Rosalind Franklin
Ricky Coates as Vittorio Luzzati
Chris Martinez as JT Randall
Chris Martinez is a Seattle-based actor, lover of Irish whiskies and good stories, and all around great friend. You can follow him on Instagram at topher.martinez.
Stay tuned for Episode Three!
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Rosalind's first day at King's College yields quite a few surprises.
History Science Theatre Podcast is a production of Matheatre (www.matheatre.com). We use live theatre to tell stories that inspire excitement about math and science.
Patreon.com/matheatre; Facebook.com/MatheatreSTEAM; Instagram: matheatre_steam
Script by Ricky Coates and Sadie Bowman;
Music and lyrics by Sadie Bowman;
Edited by Ricky Coates;
Outtro orchestration by Joe McMorrow
Featuring (in order of appearance):
Sadie Bowman as Rosalind Franklin
Charlie Borchert as The Opinionated Passerby
Chris Martinez as JT Randall
Alec Schillinger as Raymond Gosling
Sam Kean as Maurice Wilkins
Charlie Borchert is a member of the Retro-futurist art rock band Bad September, weaving narratives of desire and loss in a steampunk world careening into war. Their latest album, “The Second Opium Wars” tells the story of the Great War between East and West, chronicling the rise and fall of the mighty Transnational Relay and exploring themes of dreams, loss, and mechanization. You can hear this album and more by Bad September at badseptember.bandcamp.com.
Alec Schillinger composes and produces electronic music under the name Companion Jams. You can find Alec on twitter at @CompanionJams and on youtube, soundcloud, and bandcamp! You can even commission Companion Jams for all your original electronic music needs.
Stay tuned for Episode Four!
Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
Rosalind and Gosling make a big discovery about DNA, and get swept up in big conflict in the lab.
History Science Theatre Podcast is a production of Matheatre (www.matheatre.com). We use live theatre to tell stories that inspire excitement about math and science.
Patreon.com/matheatre; Facebook.com/MatheatreSTEAM; Instagram: matheatre_steam
Script by Ricky Coates and Sadie Bowman;
Music and lyrics by Sadie Bowman;
Edited by Ricky Coates;
Outtro orchestration by Joe McMorrow
Featuring (in order of appearance):
Sadie Bowman as Rosalind Franklin
Alec Schillinger as Raymond Gosling
Sam Kean as Maurice Wilkins
Chris Martinez as JT Randall
Sam Kean is the New York Times bestselling author of five pop science books--including The Disappearing Spoon, The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, The Violinist's Thumb, Caesar's Last Breath and The Bastard Brigade. He is also the host of The Disappearing Spoon podcast, presenting topsy-turvy real life science stories where the footnotes become the story. Find The Disappearing Spoon podcast at www.samkean.com/podcast.
Stay tuned for Episode Five!
Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
Amid escalating tensions at Kings College, a pair of visitors throw a twist into Rosalind's research.
History Science Theatre Podcast is a production of Matheatre (www.matheatre.com). We use live theatre to tell stories that inspire excitement about math and science.
Patreon.com/matheatre; Facebook.com/MatheatreSTEAM; Instagram: matheatre_steam
Script by Ricky Coates and Sadie Bowman;
Music and lyrics by Sadie Bowman;
Edited by Ricky Coates;
Outtro orchestration by Joe McMorrow
Featuring (in order of appearance):
Sadie Bowman as Rosalind Franklin
Alec Schillinger as Raymond Gosling
Sam Kean as Maurice Wilkins
Joe McMorrow as Francis Crick
Marc Gutman as James Watson
Marc Gutman is a former math teacher and co-founder of Matheatre (along with Sadie Bowman). Marc’s parody songs about Calculus back in the mid-2000s launched a thousand ships, including this one.
Joe McMorrow collaborates with Marc on Matheatre’s sister project, icanhasmath. Together Marc and Joe have produced an expansive repertoire of math songs, available at icanhasmath.bandcamp.com.
Stay tuned for Episode Six!
Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Rosalind makes some hard choices about her own life as the structure of life itself begins to be revealed.
History Science Theatre Podcast is a production of Matheatre (www.matheatre.com). We use live theatre to tell stories that inspire excitement about math and science.
Patreon.com/matheatre; Facebook.com/MatheatreSTEAM; Instagram: matheatre_steam
Script by Ricky Coates and Sadie Bowman;
Music and lyrics by Sadie Bowman;
Edited by Ricky Coates;
Outtro orchestration by Joe McMorrow
Featuring (in order of appearance):
Sadie Bowman as Rosalind Franklin
Alec Schillinger as Raymond Gosling
Marc Gutman as James Watson
Sam Kean as Maurice Wilkins
Joe McMorrow as Francis Crick
Join us at Patreon.com/matheatre for exclusive materials including historical notes and bonus episodes that delve deeper into the science of the show!
Sadie Bowman and Ricky Coates are the co-artistic directors of Matheatre, using live theatre to tell stories that inspire excitement about math and science. We offer a variety of live, interactive distance learning programs, as well as fully produced touring stage shows (once it's safe to be back out on tour again). Find out how to book us at www.matheatre.com.
Stay tuned for Episode Seven!
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
A change of scene sets Rosalind down an unexpected new path. Her research is about to have big implications in the health care fields, even as she confronts health concerns of her own.
History Science Theatre Podcast is a production of Matheatre (www.matheatre.com). We use live theatre to tell stories that inspire excitement about math and science.
Patreon.com/matheatre; Facebook.com/MatheatreSTEAM; Instagram: matheatre_steam
Script by Ricky Coates and Sadie Bowman;
Music and lyrics by Sadie Bowman;
Edited by Ricky Coates;
Outtro orchestration by Joe McMorrow
Featuring (in order of appearance):
Sadie Bowman as Rosalind Franklin
Charlie Borchert as The Opinionated Passerby
Jeffrey Scott Parsons as JD Bernal
K. Brian Neel as Aaron Klug
K. Brian Neel is a performer and creator based in Seattle. The gateway to all that is K Brian, including a link to his YouTube channel and a sample of his upcoming podcast series, Rubeus R.D.O., is at kbrianneel.com.
Jeffrey Scott Parsons is the host of A Musical Theatre Podcast, on Instagram and Twitter as @amusicalpodcast and available to listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Join us at Patreon.com/matheatre for exclusive materials including historical notes and bonus episodes that delve deeper into the science of the show!
Stay tuned for the season finale, Episode Eight!
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Season Finale
In the conclusion to this story about Rosalind Franklin, the team contemplates what it means to interpret data points as they race to complete one final project.
History Science Theatre Podcast is a production of Matheatre (www.matheatre.com). We use live theatre to tell stories that inspire excitement about math and science.
Patreon.com/matheatre; Facebook.com/MatheatreSTEAM; Instagram: matheatre_steam
Script by Ricky Coates and Sadie Bowman;
Music and lyrics by Sadie Bowman;
Edited by Ricky Coates;
Outtro orchestration by Joe McMorrow
Featuring (in order of appearance):
Sadie Bowman as Rosalind Franklin
K. Brian Neel as Aaron Klug
Joe McMorrow as Francis Crick
Rosalie Norris Gutman as Odile Crick
Alec Schillinger as Raymond Gosling
Jeffrey Scott Parsons as JD Bernal
Ricky Coates as Vittorio Luzzati
Rosalie Norris Gutman is a vocalist, featured in Matheatre's sister project icanhasmath.
This concludes Season One of History Science Theatre PODCAST. Stay tuned for a bonus interstitial release of an audio version of Matheatre's live stage production "Curie Me Away!", a chemistry-themed musical based on the science and life of Marie Curie. Season Two of History Science Theatre PODCAST is coming soon with another dramatized story from STEM history.
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
A short snippet of our bonus interview with Dr. Becky Coates.
In our bonus episodes, we delve into the science behind the story by interviewing actual scientists about the show's concepts.
Dr. Coates is a physical chemist whose career inadvertently parallels Rosalind Franklin's. Dr. Coates told us about carbon, x-ray crystallography, the arrangement of molecules, and what it means to be a scientist. In this segment, she talks about the unique importance and structure of graphite.
To hear the full interview, become a Patreon at Patreon.com/matheatre.
Patreon.com/matheatre; Facebook.com/MatheatreSTEAM; Instagram: matheatre_steam
About Matheatre
Our mission is to use musical theatre stories to inspire excitement about math and science.
A 501(c)(3) entity with international reach, Bowman and Coates tour full time with full scale musical theatre productions that promote scientific literacy and intellectual curiosity. We now work with museums and science centers, libraries, and planetaria in addition to high schools and colleges worldwide. We offer workshops to educators and science communicators. We created History Science Theatre Podcast as another way for our audiences to engage with science theatre from their own homes or classrooms.
Matheatre is also a member of ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers).
Learn more about our company and our live theatre shows at www.matheatre.com.