Join the cast and creative team for a post-performance conversation.

Maryam Zekavat is a member of the MIT Women in Engineering Sciences organization and a student of Engineering at MIT.

Nancy Bauer is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences at Tufts University. A specialist in feminist philosophy, philosophy and film, phenomenology and existentialism, and philosophy of the ordinary, she is the author of How to Do Things With Pornography (Harvard University Press, 2015) and of Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism (Columbia University Press, 2001), as well as numerous articles for academic and popular audiences. Most of her writing is concerned in one way or another with the attenuation of philosophy’s social relevance in the wake of its professionalization in the 20th century.

Please join us for a Pre-Show Symposia with Maryam and Nancy to discuss their work and hear a modern day perspective on what life is like as a young vanguard of scientific research and engineering!

Dr. Janet Marie Conrad is a Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a leading researcher in neutrino studies – neutrinos being the lightest known matter particles in existence and a cornerstone in the long studied physics theory known as The Standard Model.

As a maverick female physicist performing groundbreaking research, it is an honor to have Dr. Conrad speaking with audiences about her work and the importance of women in science at this special one-night post-show event.

Dr. Janet Conrad’s Website: www2.lns.mit.edu/~conrad

Dr. Julie A Nelson is the Economics Department Chair and a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston where she currently conducts research on feminism and economics. An expert on the philosophy and methodology of gender in economics, Dr. Nelson is the distinguished author of Economics for Humans (2006) and Feminism, Objectivity, and Economics (1996), as well as the co-author of numerous other articles, books, and textbooks.

It is our honor to have her present a pre-show symposia on her work and answering a difficult question pivotal to Émilie of how to balance a fulfilling life and career as a woman. Please join us for this one-night special event before the show!

Dr. Julie Nelson’s Website: www.umb.edu/academics/cla/faculty/julie_a._nelson

Pre-Show Pop Up Theatre!

As part of our vision to bring our audiences a full-bodied theatre experience that goes beyond passive participation, The Nora and CST have teamed up with Bostonia Bohemia, whose mission is to bring theatrical experiences to non-traditional space, to bring MicroTheater to the CST lobby on select nights.

Short scenes will be performed from Othello: renamed Othella — a twist on gender parity– featuring Othello and Desdemona, the love between them, and the arc of the their relationship through their speeches. While the show consists entirely of Shakespeare’s words, the speeches have been re-ordered into a seamless tragic and romantic narrative. The artists have flipped the genders in Othella in order to provide the audience with a fresh experience of this famous yet troubled romance. The play will be accompanied by live ukelele.