PUBLIC PROGRAMS
When you take science off the screen and put it on a stage, something like up-close magic happens. As a live science event producer and programmer, I bring scientists, artists, and curious audiences into the same room to explore big existential ideas—mixing conversation, multimedia, and live performance.
At Pioneer Works, an artist and scientist-led cultural center in Brooklyn, I select public program themes alongside Director of Sciences Janna Levin, hunt down and book leading researchers, script the narrative flow, and collaborate with event hosts on questions. To turn standard panels into immersive experiences, I produce custom video reels, visual backdrops, and design hands-on activations—ranging from quantum mechanics experiments to heart dissections.
At the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), I created and produced two live variety shows (Creature Feature and First Contact) bridging Hollywood cinema and hard science. By pairing scientists, filmmakers, and writers on stage, we explored the real-world biology and astrophysics behind iconic film monsters and alien encounters. For each event, I collaborated with the speakers to create custom visuals for their talks. Because I approach event production as a director, editor, and animator, these public programs feel like watching a movie instead of a PowerPoint presentation.
FEATURED PROGRAMS
Scientific Controversies: Quantum Weirdness (Pioneer Works) — Untangling quantum entanglement with physicists Paul Davies and Natalia Ares, featuring live quantum demonstrations.
Scientific Controversies: Heart, Blood, and Soul (Pioneer Works) — Exploring synthetic anatomy and bioengineered organs, featuring a heart dissection.
Science & Society: Do Forests Feel? (Pioneer Works) — Investigating plant communication with Finding the Mother Tree author Suzanne Simard and The Light Eaters author Zoë Schlanger, featuring an interactive tree-ring lab.
Science + Fiction: Kim Stanley Robinson (Pioneer Works) — Deep time, climate survival, and utopian logistics with sci-fi icon Kim Stanley Robinson.
Creature Feature: The Science of Monster Movies (MoMI) — An onstage deep dive into the real-world biology, paleontology, and science-inspired effects behind Jurassic Park, Alien, Jaws, and cult monster movie Slugs.
First Contact: Alien Encounters in Science and Fiction (MoMI) — A live variety show bridging sci-fi cinema with real astrobiology, featuring author Jaime Green (The Possibility of Life), extraterrestrial sounds, and a live decoding of Carl Sagan’s Golden Record. I also screened an original video essay of mine about the “Dark Forest Hypothesis” and why first contact hasn’t happened (…yet).