by Jennifer Maisel (Author)
OUT OF ORBIT. a play by Jennifer Maisel. A mother and her teenage daughter. The Jet Propulsion Lab Scientist and the underachiever. Sara lives on Mars time, spearheading the Mars Rover Expedition, visiting a planet she cannot touch, while her daughter, Lis, on earth time, falls under the spell of the cyber-cypher Edgar2330. Sometimes it takes being worlds apart for an exploring woman and a longing-to-be-explored girl to find each other in our increasingly disconnected universe. Winner 2017-18 Woodward-Newman Award for Drama, 2014 Stanley Award for Drama, 2010 Sundance Theatre Lab at Mass MoCA, 2016 Kilroy List for best plays by women and trans writers, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Rewrite Commission for Plays about Science and Technology. This is a NoPassport Press publishing venture,