Genie in the Machine

by Anna Waldman-Brown, Zach Barryte, Rachel Bowens-Rubin, and Sabrina Shemet

The Catalyze Playwriting Group presents short virtual comedies about two underexplored tragedies of the digital age: rising suicide rates and online dating.

Anna Waldman-Brown / DUSP PhD; TPP 2018; course 8 & CMSW, 2011 / playwright of “Deaths of Despair,” researches automation and inequality with the MIT Work of the Future Task Force

Zach Barryte / course 21e (6.3 & CMS), 2013 / playwright of “HadalyGirl,” artist, storyteller, and programmer developing therapeutic media software with Odin

Rachel Bowens-Rubin / course 8 & 12, 2011 / playwright of “HadalyGirl,” graduate student at UC Santa Cruz studying Astronomy & Astrophysics

Sabrina Shemet / course 6.2, 2016 / bot writer of “HadalyGirl,” writing software with Samsara