AI Frankenstein
Special Thanks to Terry Du Soleil and the Windmill Links Community Environmental Fund
This month, hundreds of Los Angeles Unified School District students and teachers will get under the skin of Dr. Victor Frankenstein’s AI Creature. Engaging the AI Creature in live, real time interactive e-conversations, high school classrooms become a laboratory for beta testing the educational impact of integrating advanced cutting-edge AI chatbot technology with classic literature, storytelling, and learning.
The Shakespeare Center is collaborating with Alice Scope, an international field-leading new media art curator and cultural strategist to explore the integration of highly advanced artificially intelligent chatbot technology with classic storytelling practices to explore new ways for art to engage students and teachers.
After classroom conversations with the AI Creature student engagement with R.N. Sandberg’s one-act adaptation of Frankenstein, will be offered by a union-contracted young professional company of actors, a stage manager, director, and a producer drawn from the California Institute for the Arts School of Theater.
FRANKENSTEIN BY R.N. SANDBERG
PRODUCTION CAST & CREW
CAST
Victor Frankenstein: Luca Jarosz*
Captain Walton/Victor’s Father/Professor: Nathan Luce*
Elizabeth, and others: Eva Hendricks*
Justine, Bride: Romy Kim*
The Creature: Isiah Shetelick*
*Appearing through an Agreement between SCLA and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Shakespeare Center Los Angeles is a professional company employing members of Actors’ Equity Association.
CREATIVE TEAM
Hunter Abal: Director
Bosco Flanagan: Lighting Design
Kevin Orellana: Lighting Director
Michael Roth: Composer
Anna Hibbert: Sound Design
Stephanie: Electrics & Projection Operator
Chloe Joy: Projection Consultant
Alice Scope: AI Curator & Visual Design
Kellie Hageman: Stage Manager
Keely Cobb: Producer/Production Manager
The Director is a Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.
LAUSD BOARD MEMBERS
Sherlett Hendy Newbill: District 1
Rocío Rivas: District 2
Scott Schmerelson: District 3
Nick Melvoin: District 4
Karla Griego: District 5
\Kelly Gonez: District 6
Tanya Ortiz Franklin: District 7
Anely Cortez Lopez: Student board member
LAUSD SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Alberto Carvalho
LAUSD ARTS EDUCATION BRANCH
Jantré Christian, Administrator
Mireya Alonzo, K-12 Arts Coordinator
Shana Habel, K-12 Arts Coordinator
Christopher Rodriguez, K-12 Arts Coordinator
Jessica Williams, Administrative Coordinator
Dr. Daanee Touchstone, K-12 Arts Coordinator
Sarah Urias, K-12 Arts Coordinator
Dr. Joseph Yune, K-12 Arts Coordinator
Maria Hoskins, Senior Secretary
Margarita Mortel, Principal Administrative Analyst