After the Thursday, April 26 at 7:30pm and the Saturday, April 28 at 3pm performances of The Women Who Mapped the Stars, please join us for a Scholar Social with Lindsay Smith Zrull.

Lindsay Smith Zrull is the Curator of Astronomical Photographs at the Harvard College Observatory. In addition to giving historical tours of the observatory and caring for Harvard’s 500,000 astronomical glass plate photographs, she runs the daily operations for the DASCH Project (Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard). Smith Zrull is passionate about the groundbreaking work women accomplished in past centuries and she enjoys speaking with the public about Harvard Observatory’s historic women computers and astronomers.

You can find more information about the glass plate collection at our website (platestacks.cfa.harvard.edu) and on Twitter (@DASCHdesk).

Join us after the Saturday, April 28 at 8pm performance of The Women Who Mapped the Stars for a Scholar Social with Kimberly Arcand.

Kimberly Kowal Arcand is the Visualization Lead for NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, which has its headquarters at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Arcand is an award-winning producer and director. She is a leading expert in studying the perception and comprehension of high-energy data visualization across the novice-expert spectrum. As a science data “storyteller” she combines her background in molecular biology and computer science with her current work in the fields of astronomy and physics.

Join us after the 7.30pm show on Thursday, May 3, 2018 for a lively discussion with the cast and crew of The Women Who Mapped the Stars.

Join us for a post-performance discussion after the Saturday, May 5 3pm performance with Katie Frey.

Katie Frey is the Assistant Head and Digital Technologies Development Librarian at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, where she has worked since 2012.   Katie manages Project PHaEDRA, the initiative to digitizing and transcribe logbooks written by the women computers who worked at the Harvard College Observatory in the mid to late 1800s.  Katie holds a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a BS in Astronomy from San Diego State University.

Join playwright Joyce Van Dyke and director Jessica Ernst as they discuss how this production of The Women Who Mapped the Stars came to fruition, from idea to script to reading to stage. Learn more about how new plays are developed, and what challenges and inspirations influenced the way this new play is performed today.