Join the cast and creative team of When January Feels Like Summer after the performance on Thursday, November 3rd for a lively discussion of the show and its themes!

Summing Up Sanitation: Public Works in Cambridge

Join us after the show, with Environment Services Manager John Fitzgerald of Cambridge Public Works, to talk about the sanitation work and environmental issues present in When January Feels Like Summer!

In his role as the environmental services manager at the Cambridge Department of Public Works, John Fitzgerald oversees all Solid Waste operations, including Trash, Recycling, Composting and Street Cleaning.  He also has broader responsibilities related to facilities management, regulatory compliance and best practices, training and planning.  John has over 20 years of waste industry management and operations experience with organizations in Arizona, New York, and Massachusetts.  He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Leaving No Story Untold: A Conversation with When January Feels Like Summer Playwright, Cori Thomas

Join us directly following the Saturday evening performance of When January Feels Like Summer for a post-show conversation with Cori Thomas! Learn more about her process in writing When January Feels Like Summer, as well as her upcoming project with Central Square Theater,  Untold Stories: Catalyst 2042.

Cori Thomas is a playwright and actress who lives in New York City. Her plays include: When January Feels Like Summer (World Premiere City Theatre Co., Pittsburgh, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Page73/Women’s Project Theater 2014NY Premiere/ Upcoming Productions: 2016 Mosaic Theatre DC, 2016 Underground Railway Theater MA,); The Ballad of Ella May(The Working Theater 2016); Pa’s Hat (Pillsbury House Theatre, MN 2010); Flight 109, My Secret Language of Wishes (Various theaters and University productions including Mixed Blood, MN 2011); Citizens Market; The Princess, The Breast, and, The Lizard; The Unusual Love Life of Bedbugs and Other Creatures; Waking Up (Ensemble Studio Theatre 2013); His Daddy( Going To The River & Castillo 2009); our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

Cori’s plays have been developed and produced at Sundance Institute, Goodman Theatre, City Theatre Company (Pittsburgh), Ensemble Studio Theatre,  The Women’s Project Theater, Page 73 Productions,, Playwrights Horizons, Lark Play Development Center, The Working Theater, Going To The River, Pillsbury House Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Penumbra Theatre, Passage Theatre, The Playwrights Realm, New Federal Theatre, New Georges, The Black Rep (St. Louis), The New Black Fest, and Queens Theatre in the Park.

 She has been commissioned by South Coast Rep Theatre, Inaugural Catalyst MIT/Central Square Commissions; The Working Theatre, The Sloan Foundation, NYSCA, EST, Pillsbury House Theatre.

Residencies, and Honors: (Class of 2022) Resident Playwright at New Dramatists, 2009 MacDowell Fellow, Edgerton New Play Award, Sundance Theatre Lab Fellow, 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Osborn Award for Best New Play (When January Feels Like Summer) ; 2005 Theodore Ward Prize (My Secret Language of Wishes), 2003 2nd Place Theodore Ward Prize (“our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor….”).

A Scholar Social with Matthais Sheutz

Join us after the Thursday evening performance for a discussion with Matthais Sheutz!

Matthias Scheutz is a Professor in Cognitive and Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science, an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology, and the Bernard M. Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow in Engineering at Tufts University. He has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in artificial intelligence, artificial life, agent-based computing, natural language processing, cognitive modeling, robotics, human-robot interaction, and foundations of cognitive science. As Director of the Human-Robot Interaction Laboratory at Tufts, his current research focuses on complex cognitive and affective robots with natural language capabilities for natural human-robot interaction.

Lab: http://hrilab.tufts.edu/

A Post-show Discussion with Scientist C. Brandon Ogbunu

Join us after the Sunday matinee for a discussion with evolutionary biologist C. Brandon Ogbunu as we talk about biology in relation to Marjorie Prime!

C. Brandon Ogbunu is a research associate with dual appointments in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.  His broader research program takes place at the crossroads between computational biology, evolutionary genetics, and epidemiology, all towards better approaches for treating and preventing infectious diseases. In addition, Brandon carries secondary interests in global health, ethics, health inequities, and STEM education. He has served as a consultant with UNICEF country offices in Laos and Angola in the area of early childhood development (ECD) policy.