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Zany Planets

10-minute comedy
The stars move across the sky in an orderly fashion. But sometimes the planets stop and go backwards! This doesn’t make sense to young Niclas Kopernik. He seeks help from Hypatia, an astronomer who lived a thousand years earlier.

Characters
Male
NICLAS KOPERNIK, 18, an astronomy student
​Female
HYPATIA, ageless scientist
MARIA PAULA, 18, a postulant nun  

Setting
University of Kraków, Poland

Time
​1491

(online reading)
P.A.G.E.S.
New York, NY
​July 13, 2021

Cast: Daniel Strausman (Niclas), Victoria Freedman (Hypatia), Diane Quinn (Maria Paula)
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Victoria Freedman (Hypatia), Daniel Strausman (Niclas) and Diane Quinn (Maria Paula)

(online performance)
Moving Parts
Paris, France
January 24, 2021

Cast: James Malcolm (Niclas), Sanja Jancovic (Hypatia), Agnieszka Grzybowska (Maria Paula)

​D
irected by Stephanie Campion 
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James Malcolm (Niclas), Sanja Jancovic (Hypatia) and Agnieszka Grzybowska (Maria Paula)

(online performance)
Crafton Hills New Works Festival
Yucaipa, California,
​May 9, 2020

Cast: Ricardo Moran (Niclas), Jocelyn Perez (Hypatia), Rose Lamoureux (Maria Paula)
​
Directed by Jared Diamond
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Jocelyn Perez (Hypatia), Ricardo Moran (Niclas), Rose Lamoureux (Maria Paula)
Video

Crazy Planets
(reading)
ICRL Playwriting Competition
Princeton, New Jersey
April 4, 2020

Produced by Jeff Dunne

Cast: 
Zak Rosen (Niclas), Jeff Dunne (stage directions), Keely Kurtas-Chapman (Hypatia) and Eliza Pagel (Maria Paula)​
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Zak Rosen (Niclas), Jeff Dunne (stage directions), Keely Kurtas-Chapman (Hypatia) and Eliza Pagel (Maria Paula)​

(Staged reading)
New Play Contest
The Chameleon Theatre Circle
Ames Center
Burnsville, Minnesota
​November 5, 2016

Cast: Logan Woller (Niclas), Amelia Mohn (Hypatia), Megan Navarette (Maria Paula)

Directed by ​
Jenny Marie Midnight-Thunder Moeller

* Winner of the THEATRE FOR YOUTH category

Hypatia (Zany Planets) is the first part of a trilogy of short plays: Female Scientists to the Rescue.