Silent Sky (2023)

Directed by Angela Bonacasa
Producer: Angela Bonacasa
Scenic Designer: Tricia A. Hobbs
Lighting Designer: Scout Hough
Costume Designer: Mark Muir
Sound Designer/Sound Board Operator: Christopher Duff
Properties Designer: Mary Clark
Stage Manager: Delaney McFaden
Technical Director: Ben Wetzel
Choreographer: Lauren Billings
Intimacy Director: D. Granke
Marketing & Publicity: Tellis Coolong
Social Media Intern: Bell Gellis Morais

Photos by Ron Lisnet

Jenny Hancock as Henrietta Leavitt
Melissa Burkhart as Margaret Leavitt
Peter Natali as Peter Shaw
Bunny Barclay as Williaminia Fleming
Holly Schreiber as Annie Cannon

When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women “computers,” charting the stars for a renowned astronomer who calculates projects in “girl hours” and has no time for the women’s probing theories. In her free time, as Henrietta attempts to measure the light and distance of stars, she must also take measure of her life on Earth, trying to balance her dedication to science with family obligations and the possibility of love.

The true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, when women’s ideas were dismissed until men claimed credit for them.

A unique partnership with the University of Maine’s Versant Power Astronomy Center & the Jordan Planetarium, Silent Sky made use of the dome projection ceiling of the planetarium to bring to life this historical drama..

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