Hutton Honors College

Dinner with Playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 * 5:30-7 p.m. * HHC Building (811 E. Seventh St.) * SIGN-UP REQUIRED

Followed by boom

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 * 7:30 p.m. Performance * Optional Post-performance Curtain Talk
Waldron Arts Center (122 S. Walnut St.) * SIGN-UP REQUIRED * Tickets: $12

Join your fellow HHC students for a supper with young up-and-coming San Francisco playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, followed by a Cardinal Stage Co performance of boom, his "smashing new comedy" about the end of the world and a nerdy marine biologist who posts a personal ad to find the girl who will help him ensure the survival of the species. You can sign up for the supper OR the performance OR both!

Nachtrieb started acting at a young age in musical theatre productions and plays. While attending Brown University, he expanded his love of acting to playwriting. Also interested in biology, he interned for a marine biologist in Panama, where he observed Caribbean fish for three months. The two interests come together in boom, described as a "funny, slightly warped, and ultimately hopeful look at the apocalypse." After an extended run in New York, D.C., and Seattle, boom makes its Midwest premier at the Waldron Arts Center in downtown Bloomington. In addition to writing plays, Nachtrieb also writes solo shows and performs as part of the sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster.

Also joining us for the supper (which is co-sponsored by the Wells Scholars Program) will be Cardinal Stage Company's artistic director Randy White and IU biology and informatics professor Matthew Hahn, whose research interests include evolutionary genomics, genetics, and bioinformatics. Following the performance, you will have the opportunity to participate in a curtain talk with Nachtrieb; White; and Hahn.

If you are unable to attend the performance on November 5, boom will be running at the Waldron Arts Center from October 30 through November 15. For more information, please go here.

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