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Weber’s signature program, ‘Public Understanding of Science and Technology’, supports Books, Radio & Podcasts, Film, Television, Theater, New Media, and YouTube & TikTok to reach a wide, non-specialised audience and to bridge the two cultures of science and the humanities.

He helped start Radiolab, the Tribeca Film Institute and the World Science Festival and has supported Pulitzer Prize-winning books, Emmy-winning television, Peabody-winning radio, Tony-winning plays, and Oscar-winning films.

Weber was educated at Brown University, the Sorbonne and Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has published numerous articles, opeds and four books, most notably ‘Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir’, named one of the 50 Notable Works of Non-Fiction by The Washington Post.

Weber currently serves as President of The Writers Room Board, National Secretary for the Israel Rhodes Scholarship, and Board Member of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Lauren M. Gunderson is currently the most produced playwright in America since 2015 topping the list four times including this year.

She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for ‘I and You’ and ‘The Book of Will’; the winner of the William Inge Distinguished Achievement in Theater Award, Lanford Wilson Award, The Jeff Award for New Plays, and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award; and finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Arthur L. Weissberger Award, and John Gassner Award for Playwriting. Revolutionary Women, her new anthology of five plays, is published by Bloomsbury along with ‘I and You’ and ‘anthropology’.

She co-authored the popular ‘Miss Bennet’ trilogy with Margot Melcon. ‘The Half-Life of Marie Curie’ was commissioned by Audible Theatre, premiered off-Broadway and can be heard at Audible.com. She will soon premiere several new musicals including ‘The Cave’ (with Bree Lowdermilk), ‘Sinister’ (with Joriah Kwamé), ‘I and You: A Musical’ (with Ari Afsar) and ‘Built for This’ and ‘Pride & Prejudice’ (with Kira Stone). She lives in London.

Marina Carpineti is a physicist at the University of Milan, where her research spans physics education, science communication and complex systems.

For more than twenty years, together with two colleagues and in collaboration with professional theatre directors, she has co-founded and continues to develop The Physics Show (Lo Spettacolo della Fisica), a science theatre programme that explores how theatre can become a language for doing, teaching and communicating physics. The project creates original performances that combine experiments, storytelling and inquiry to make physics both intellectually rigorous and emotionally engaging for audiences of all ages. Since 2004, the project has produced eight original shows and reached more than 150,000 people through around 450 performances in theatres, schools and science festivals in Italy and abroad. 

Her research investigates how theatre can foster curiosity, conceptual understanding and meaningful learning, while creating new connections between formal education, outreach and the performing arts.