Past MACH 33 Seasons
2019 Season
Bones of the Sea tells the true story of Mary Anning, a working-class woman in Dorset, England, who helped to revolutionize the field of paleontology in the 19th century. In flashbacks, the audience sees various scenes of the self-taught Anning and the wealthy scientist Henry De la Beche as the two forge an unlikely friendship that lasts through fame and glory, disappointment and heartbreak.
Frances "Poppy" Northcutt, a math whiz working at Mission Control as a "computress," finds flaws in some unruly code, is promoted to technical staff – and becomes the first woman to slip on the headset as a NASA engineer. It's December 1968, the cusp of a new world, she's 25 years old, favors mini-skirts, eyeliner, and long blonde hair,Apollo 8 has gone behind the moon, and Poppy Northcutt holds her breath as the world changes faster than her return-to-earth trajectories can splash those dudes back down.
Prohibition is in full swing, but New York City is still celebrating New Year's Eve in style—with a batch of poisoned hooch and an immigrant woman's murder by cyanide. Cue Alexander Gettler, an obsessive chemist whose research helped create the modern field of forensic toxicology. With help from Lipstick, an intrepid flapper and indefatigable reporter who mistakes his laboratory for a speakeasy, Gettler must try to catch a murderer and convince the federal government to stop poisoning alcohol. Inspired by the real life work of Gettler and pioneering journalist Lois Long, The Surest Poison chronicles the dark side of the noble experiment.
2018 Season
- Theory of Nothing by Lolly Ward
- Out There Right Here by Anna Nicholas
- Lie After Lie After Lie by Stephen Dierkes
2017 Season
- Vavilov's Garden by Mark Eckard
- Somber Science by Matilde Marcolli
- Faustus, PhD by Mark Kozlowski
2016 Season
- The Chisera by Paula Cizmar
- Planet Between the Stars by Hillary Bhaskaran
- Heart of the Stars with Brian Brophy, Bryan Penprase, Manan Arya, and Utkarsh Mital
2015 Season
- Two Degrees by Tira Palmquist
- The Last Flight of the Mercenary by Karen Howes
2014 Season
- They Promised Her the Moon by Laurel Ollstein
- Theory of Nothing by Lolly Ward
- Capture the Sun by George Morgan
2013 Season
- Tesla: A Radio Play for the Stage by Dan Duling
- Out of Orbit by Jennifer Maisel
- Sila by Chantal Bilodeau
- The Washing of the Water by Marcus Renner
Previously Developed at Caltech
- God Particle Complex by Chris Bell and Josh Zeller
- Rocket Girl by George D. Morgan
- Pasadena Babalon by George D. Morgan
- Mate: The Untouchable Bobby Fischer by Lolly Ward