Scientists, Technologists and Artists Generating Exploration (STAGE) was created in 2005 to encourage collaboration between artists and scientists. Originally, it began as a partnership between the Professional Artists Lab and the California NanoSystems Institute

California Nanosystems Institute

The California NanoSystems Institute is an integrated research center operating jointly at UCLA and UC Santa Barbara whose mission is to foster interdisciplinary collaborations for discoveries in nanosystems and nanotechnology; train the next generation of scientists, educators and technology...

 at the University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...

. STAGE, which is housed at California NanoSystems Institute, hosts a biennial international script competition and a Collaboratory.

The founder and director of STAGE is Nancy Kawalek, a Studio Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Script Competition

The STAGE International Script Competition awards a $10,000 prize to the best new play about science and technology.

Past Judges

A panel of artists and scientists serve as jurors for each cycle of the competition.
Judges have included

• Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
   and Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
   winning playwright David Auburn
  David Auburn
  David Auburn is an American playwright.He was raised in Ohio and Arkansas. He attended the University of Chicago, where he was a member of Off-Off Campus, and received a degree in English literature....
  
  
• Tony, Oliver, and Obie Award
  Obie Award
  The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City...
  
   winning playwright John Guare
  John Guare
  John Guare is an American playwright. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, and Landscape of the Body...
  
  
• Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire
  David Lindsay-Abaire
  David Lindsay-Abaire is an American playwright and lyricist. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for his play Rabbit Hole, which also earned several Tony Award nominations.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Nobel Laureate in physics Sir Anthony Leggett
  Anthony James Leggett
  Sir Anthony James Leggett, KBE, FRS , aka Tony Leggett, has been a Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1983....
  
  , KBE
• Nobel Laureate in chemistry Alan Heeger
• Nobel Laureate in physics David Gross
  David Gross
  David Jonathan Gross is an American particle physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. He is currently the director and holder of the Frederick W...
  
  .

Past Winners

Playwrights who have won the competition include

• Jamie Pachino for Splitting Infinity
• Elyse Singer for Frequency Hopping
• Anna Ziegler for Photograph 51
• Craig Baxter for The Altruists

The Collaboratory

In 2009, STAGE launched The Collaboratory, an artistic laboratory for the development of theatrical works that have a multi-media component and that feature science and technology. The first play being created in The Collaboratory is The Brain Project.

The Brain Project

Participants of The Brain Project include

• Alyssa Anderson
• Dwier Brown
  Dwier Brown
  Dwier Brown , is an American film and television actor. He is appeared in a few horror films, of which House and The Guardian realised by The Exorcists director William Friedkin, and appeared for several T.V., films and series.- Films and TV :* Locked Down : ...
  
  
• Michael Gazzaniga
  Michael Gazzaniga
  Michael S. Gazzaniga is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. He is one of the leading researchers in cognitive neuroscience, the study of the neural basis of mind...
  
  , PhD
  PHD
  PHD may refer to:*Ph.D., a doctorate of philosophy*Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*PHD finger, a protein sequence*PHD Mountain Software, an outdoor clothing and equipment company*PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
  
  
• Angela Goethals
  Angela Goethals
  Angela Bethany Goethals is an American actress. She is known for her recurring guest appearance on 24 and her roles in the TV sitcom Phenom and the movie Home Alone.- Early life and career :...
  
  
• Scott Grafton, MD
  MD
  - Science :* Doctor of Medicine, from the Latin Medicinæ Doctor * Macular degeneration, a condition characterized by progressive thinning and atrophy of the macula area of the retina* Mahalanobis distance, a distance measure introduced by P. C...
  
  
• Geoffrey Grinstein, PhD
• Nancy Kawalek
• Kenneth Kosik, MD
• James Lashly
• Maurizio Seracini
  Maurizio Seracini
  Maurizio Seracini is a diagnostician of Italian art. A '73 UCSD Alumnus, graduated in bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego , he founded, in 1977, the first company in Italy for diagnostic and non-destructive analyses on art and architecture, the Editech srl, Diagnostic Center...
  
  , PhD
• Deb Norton

External links

• STAGE
• Professional Artists Lab
• CNSI
• Dwier Brown at the Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
  
  
• Angela Goethals at the Internet Movie Database
• James Lashly at the Internet Movie Database
• Jamie Pachino at the Internet Movie Database