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Stretching Your Synaptic Plasticity
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| Cem Uyanik is a founding member of Reality Aside's Spin 1/2 science comedy show. He most recently worked with Reality Aside on an extended run of "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged.)" Also with Reality Aside, Cem performed in the interactive murder mystery "Funeral!" and the one-act series "It's All Goode." Other recent NY credits include the upcoming feature film "SubHysteria", directed by Leonard Zelig; "Sordid Lives" (Ty Williamson) with the Island Repertory Theatre Company; the TV film "The Mystery of Anna O" (Dr. Josef Breur) by Jerome Coopersmith and directed by Terrence Dollard. Cem studied theatre at New York University and at HB Studio with Michael Beckett. Also active in medicine, Cem treats patients with temporomandibular (TMJ) disorders. |
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| Rachel Crouthamel is a founding member and writer for Reality Aside's Spin 1/2 science comedy show. She has acted off-off Broadway, in regional theatre, and in independent film. She frequents music and comedy venues throughout the city, performing original songs on the mandolin under the moniker "Rachel's Last Resort." Also a playwright, Rachel has just completed her first full-length play about teen sex and birth control. Her comedic one-act "Mercury Mimosas" won the Slam! Festival's 2009 Best Short Play award. |
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| Eric Michelsen recently received his PhD in physics from the University of CA at San Diego. His research involved testing Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity by reflecting a laser beam off the moon to measure perturbations in spacetime curvature. Now he teaches laboratory physics classes to undergraduates at Pomona College in Claremont, CA, tutors privately, and writes educational physics-themed tutorials and songs. He met his wife Laura in his former life as an electrical engineer, and they have two young and exceptionally brilliant children, Sarah and Ethan. At age seven, Sarah is already well-versed in the language of tensor calculus. |
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Adam Orin received a M.S. in physics from the University of CA at San Diego, where he spent two years learning how to cope with the unavoidably disastrous effects that quantum mechanics has on everyday life. He has just completed a master's degree in education at UC San Diego, and teaches astronomy to high school students. In his free time he breeds giant man-eating puffer fish and hones his pirating skills. Most recently he pillaged and plundered his way down the Nile, vowing blood upon the head of anyone who stood in his watery path. Alligators still tremble to hear his name.
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| Laura Jane Tucker is pursuing her PhD in physics at the University of CA at San Diego, while performing in a jazz band at venues throughout southern California. Her scientific research explores the field of biophysics. Also interested in education, Laura won the 2009 UCSD Summer Graduate Teaching Fellowship.
As a musician, Laura recently completed a bachelor's degree in music, and performs as a singer, song writer, and piano player in her music group. Also a fan of small guitar-like instruments, she can often be spotted at various ukulele festivals throughout the San Diego area. |
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Jack* the Dragon was born upside-down in a miniature granite villa perched precariously on the mossier side of the westernmost branch of an ancient carrot tree, under the light of a new moon. His love for theatrics blossomed at an early age. Trampling roses one morning, he happened upon a troupe of traveling orangutans enacting a play alluding to a play referring to a play within a play within a play fraught with jealousy, betrayal, and insatiable lust. The impressionable young lizard watched with rapt attention and then fled home, suddenly dead-certain that his father's best friend's sister had conspired with the sister's attorney's mother-in-law to brutally murder the family auto mechanic in order to run away with his yellow hummer. And he relayed this theory to his mother - in flawless iambic pentameter, no less.
Convinced that her son's energy was forever doomed to funnel pointlessly away into a nonexistent world of corny melodrama, the wise woman lost no time in sending Jack to New York City to become an actor. Happy Jack now spends his days practicing monologues and sewing elaborate Elisabethan costumes that he can't fit into. He has yet to be cast in anything, but patience! He's got at least a couple thousand more years to hone his craft. All that matters is, he's found his niche. He loves neon lights and black-and-white cookies. On a drizzly grey day you may well find him in the cheese aisle at Zabar's or up a tree in Riverside Park, belting Annie to the better half of New Jersey.
*The "c" is silent. |
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