Genie in the Machine

Two plays about AI and virtual space from the Catalyze Playwriting Group

CONTENT WARNING: mental illness, addiction, transphobia, suicide, sexual harassment, and explicit language. The National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255 and https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org

Image of Lake Erie beach from Debsie3802 on Pixabay

Neural net background from iStock

HadalyGirl dialogue adapted from web.mit.edu/sqshemet/Public/bot/bot_old_clean.txt

Curtain music: Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod


Cast and Crew

Stage Manager - Gillian Daniels

Special thanks to MIT for the Zoom webinar license, Central Square Theater for publicity, and the Catalyze Playwriting Group

Deaths of Despair

by Anna Waldman-Brown

Performed by:

Chris Tadeu - Joe Wilson

Zachary Barryte - Bobby Martin

Angela Davis - Angela Lee

Arianna Smith - Researcher

HadalyGirl

by Rachel Bowens-Rubin, Zach Barryte, and Sabrina Shemet

Performed by:

Bridget Hillyer - HadalyGirl

Catherine Giorgetti - Boy 1

E. Rosser - Boy 2

Kitty Drexel - Boy 3

Jenny Guzbethal - Boy 4

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