Co-Creators
- Annie Loui - Co-creator/ Director
Associate Professor of Drama, UCI - Antoinette LaFarge - Co-creator/Projection Artist
Associate Professor of Digital Media, UCI - Dr. James Fallon - Scientific Adviser
Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, UCI College of Medicine.
The premiere of "Reading Frankenstein" took place at the Beall Center for Art and Technology, University of California, Irvine, May/June 2003
Cast
- Mary Shelley: Marika Becz
- The Creature: Noel Iribe
- Newscaster: Dudley Knight
- Dr. James Fallon was played by himself
Creative Team
- Project Manager: Indi McCarthy, Assistant Director of the Beall Center
- Production Manager/Lighting Designer: Lonnie Alcaraz
- Associate Lighting Designer: Stephen Boulmetis
- Composer: Mark Zaki
- Costume Consultant: Elizabeth Cox
- Vocal Coach: Dudley Knight
- Lead Technical Adviser: Jeff Ridenour
Additional Visuals
Prologue & Scene 2: 3D brain animations and still images: University of California Brain Imaging Center.
Scene 1: Text animation: Grant van Zevern
Scene 2: Behavior, EEG recordings: Dr. Yi Jin, Dept Psychiatry and Human Behavior, UCI College of Medicine; multicolor animations of neural pathways activated by reading: Kevin Head, Cheryl A. Cotman, and Jay B. Angevine; sepia-toned brain animations: National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project; bioluminescent organisms: University of California (Sanata Barbara) Dept. of Biological Sciences; 3D brain animations: University of Washington (Seattle) Dept. of Biological Structure's Digital Anatomist Project.
Scenes 5 & 9: Video camerawork: Jerome Thomas.
Scene 8: Storybook drawings: Jesslyn Lansanagan.
Scene 11: Pandora brain imaging: Cheryl A. Cotman, Jay B. Angevine, Ph.D., and Kevin Head.
Additional Sounds
Scene 2 (rat brain soundscape): Cheryl A Cotman, Jean-Luc Cohen, Linda Palmer, Laura Colgin, Gary Lynch, Ph.D.
Production Crew
- Blake Anthony: Sound Board Operator
- Michelle Barr: Switcher Operator & Stage Technician
- Emily Caster: Stage Manager
- Katie Milowski: Lighting Board Operator
- Evita Rapadas: Camera Operator #1
- Joe Rojas: Video Board Operator
- Heather Zeiden: Camera Operator #2
- Michelle Barr: Stage Technician
Special thanks to Keith Bangs for his technical advice, and Aaron Kokesch for his set building skills.
This production was sponsored by the Beall Center for Art and Technology and the Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Additional support was provided by the UC Institute for Research in the Arts and by the UCI Council on Research, Computing, and Library Resources through a multi-investigator faculty research grant.
Very special thanks to Nohema Fernandez, Dean of UCI's Claire Trevor School of the Arts, and Eleanore Stewart, Director of the Beall Center, without whose support this project would not have been realized.