Infinity Box Theatre Project & Polar Summer Productions Present

“C[Y]PHER: A Play in One Act | Reading & Panel Discussion”
Written by Harold Taw | Directed by Rachel Rene Araucto
Discussion with AI Research Scientist Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, Neuroscientist Anton Arkhipov, and Biblical Scholar J.P. Kang

7:00 pm, Fri., Sept. 27, 2024, University Heights Center,
5031 University Wy NE, Seattle, WA

Website: https://www.haroldtaw.com/staged-reading-for-cypher
Tickets: https://www.uheightscenter.org/upcoming-events/cypher

What might happen if we perfect humans and conquer death?

In the original play C[Y]PHER, fourth-grade math teacher ZARA CHADHA discovers that her father, a recently deceased AI pioneer, may have uploaded a digital copy of his mind onto a vast network. Clues point to Zara’s memories serving as the decryption key—the “cypher”— that will permit entry into where her father resides in his digital afterlife. How are her mother’s suicide, her father’s obsession with fixing the past, and Zara’s sense of abandonment linked?

Please join Infinity Box Theatre Project and Polar Summer Productions on Sept. 27, 7pm, at University Heights Center, for a staged reading of the one-act play C[Y]PHER by Harold Taw to be followed by a conversation about the questions, both contemporary and ancient, raised by the play with artificial intelligence research scientist Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, neuroscience researcher Anton Arkhipov, and Biblical scholar J.P. Kang.

This event is Pay-What-You-Can. The script and staged reading for C[Y]PHER were funded by a CityArtist Grant from the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture … a true champion for new artistic works.

CAST & CREATIVES

ZARA CHADHA – Prisca Kim
ELOISE CHADHA – Noelle Mestres
VASANT CHADHA – Arjun Mehra
NEEL ANANDA – Gurvinder Singh
NARRATOR & Stage Manager – Rex Waters
Directed by Rachel Rene Araucto