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Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe is the subject of a new play - and he s also the playwright s husband
Thomas Floyd, The Washington Post
Jan. 22, 2021
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Actor William DeMeritt portrays Nathan Wolfe in The Catastrophist, Lauren Gunderson s one-man play based on the real-life virologist (who is also Gunderson s husband).Marin Theatre Company
As not just the husband of a playwright but the subject of her latest work, virologist Nathan Wolfe knows that when it comes to onstage depictions of real people, the writer gets the last word.
Wolfe surmised as much long before he saw himself in Lauren Gunderson s The Catastrophist, a new one-man play that will be available to stream, starting Tuesday, in a filmed version co-produced by Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Md., and the Marin Theatre of Mill Valley, Calif. Speaking alongside his wife over video chat from their Bay Area home, Wolfe recalls first learning the power of Gunder