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Lauren Gunderson writes about Nathan Wolfe for a Marin Theatre Company and Round House Theatre world premiere Lily Janiak January 14, 2021Updated: January 26, 2021, 7:38 pm Virologist Nathan Wolfe and playwright Lauren Gunderson at their home in San Francisco. Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle When Lauren Gunderson’s agent introduced her to virologist Nathan Wolfe more than a decade ago, the joke was, “Oh, Lauren, you should write something about Nathan.” “I kind of collect them, because they’re fascinating,” Gunderson says, half jokingly, of scientists. Indeed, the San Francisco playwright who was twice named the most-produced playwright in America by American Theatre magazine writes frequently about scientists and has a whole circle of physicist friends. (Science and theater have been fused for her ever since her high school physics teacher in Decatur, Ga., Mr. Winterscheidt, let her write tiny plays instead of lab reports.) ....
Marin Theatre Company to Digitally Premiere The Catastrophist, a New Play About Pandemics Local playwright Lauren Gunderson has written a new one-man play about virus hunter Nathan Wolfe and his prognostications about the economic impact of a pandemic before this one began. And now it s set to premiere virtually via the Marin Theatre Company this month. Gunderson, whose one-woman show Natural Shocks has been available to hear a radio play via Marin Theatre Company after its in-person premiere was canceled due to the pandemic last March, is actually married to Wolfe, and she says it hadn t occurred to her to write a play about him or his work until recently, for obvious reasons. ....