On Monday 10/19 We Review Genine Tillotson’s Politically Satiric Play, THE ORIGINALISTS
October 19 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$10.00On Monday, October 19th, with possibly one of the most contentious midterms in US history looming, Genine Tillotson invites reviewers to reflect on what various historical figures might say about our current state of democracy. What might our ever-advancing AI avatars teach us about this 250 year-old political experiment?
Genine Tillotson’s political satire, THE ORIGINALISTS, explores what she thought would be futuristic science fiction, but instead, is our reality RIGHT NOW, thanks to the mad-paced advancement of generative artificial intelligence.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Genine Amada Tillotson is the director of Harvard Square Script Writers (HSSW) and is the principal of Magic Lantern Multimedia LLC, based in Newton MA. She has been writing, producing and directing award-winning video and multimedia projects for over 30 years.
Early in her career, Ms. Tillotson worked for Action for Children’s Television, helped outline a TV series at ABC which evolved into the After School Specials, and wrote treatments for made-for-TV children’s films for Harvey Weinstein at his earliest venture Weinstein Skyfield Productions.
She has written and directed programs, supported by the National Science Foundation and the US Dept. of Education, and has created an assortment of video projects for broadcast, web and large-scale events.
Her diverse clients have included Mattel; Fisher Price; the Boston Museum of Science; Silver Burdett and Ginn; The San Francisco Exploratorium; Sacred Heart University; MIT’s CSAIL; Harvard University; National Geographic and Mass General Hospital to name a few.
Her educational multimedia exhibits have been showcased in 24 museums around the world and her science projects, designed for middle school classrooms, are distributed by Scholastic.
Her awards include a Silver New York Film Festival, a Gold Muse Award, three Gold Nebbys, including two “Best Overall Achievement,” and three ITVA Gold awards, among others.
Ms. Tillotson has been a guest speaker at NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) and has lectured at Lesley University, Harvard University, Northeastern, and Emerson College.
In 2016 Ms. Tillotson was also the executive director of the Different Faces, Different Voices Film Festival in Cambridge, MA featuring the Flicks4Chicks shorts contest which challenged filmmakers to create stories that passed the Bechdel test.
As of January 2021, Ms. Tillotson had released the first 7 webisodes of the comedy Next Great Hire which she wrote, directed, and co-produced
Currently, she plans to produce her proof-of-concept short UNDERGROUND this winter.
She is a member of Women in Film and Video – NE Chapter, Film Fatales, and Harvardwood and has been a script reader and judge at a number of festivals, including the Woods Hole Film Festival, the Women in Comedy Festival and ITVFest.
She holds a BA in English and Psychology from Rutgers College and a Masters and CAS from Harvard University Graduate School of Education in Human Development/Educational Media.
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