Neukom Institute Announces 2021 Playwriting Shortlist
The fourth annual award for playwriting considers works for the theater that address the question “What does it mean to be a human in a computerized world?”by BWW News Desk
Dartmouth s Neukom Institute has announced the playwriting shortlist for the 2021 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards. The fourth annual award for playwriting considers full-length plays and other full-length works for the theater that address the question What does it mean to be a human in a computerized world?
2021 Neukom Awards Shortlist for Playwriting: Some of Us Exist in the Future by Nkenna Akunna Roll Play by Julia Blauvelt
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“All right,” says David Kolesky, Ph.D. ’16. “The moment of truth.” As many times as he’s done this, there’s still always that pause. Wearing blue latex gloves and a white lab coat, Kolesky is about to see what the morning’s work has yielded. In front of him on a glass slide is a two-inch chip maybe a quarter-inch deep that he and two lab-mates spent the past few hours making: a translucent rectangle filled with a gelatinous mix of proteins and fibers mimicking the body’s extracellular matrix, the molecules that give support to living cells. And snaking through the middle of it, invisible for the moment, two tiny tubular structures, each a hundred microns or so in diameter (about the width of a human hair) both produced on the massive black 3-D printer standing a few feet away. One of those tubes, the straighter of the two, will be transformed into a working blood vessel. The other will become something called a proximal tubule, a subco