Anna Lyse Erikson is Producer at L.A. Theatre Works, having served as senior producer, casting director, and literary manager for over 100 L.A. Theatre Works live recordings, in-studio recordings, and tours. Producing highlights: A Walk in the Woods (Earphones Award 2019, Audiofile Magazine’s Best Audio Books 2019), Disgraced (Audie Award Nominee 2018), and the critically acclaimed 2014-15 National Tour of In the Heat of the Night. Directing credits include: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (L.A. Theatre Works), Circle Mirror Transformation (The Workroom), A Night with Tennessee Williams (University of Colorado-Boulder), Rose (University of Missouri-Columbia).
Eunice Newton Foote's 1850s work on the greenhouse effect, showing how gases like carbon dioxide trap heat, was groundbreaking in climate science. Despite being published in a top journal, her discovery was overlooked. Now, a play by Amanda Quaid highlights her pioneering contributions.