P. Pan Et Al

Hot Take: Peter Pan was a lesbian who invented color films.* A hundred years ago, the famous & famously private actress Maude Adams—whose name was synonymous with the iconic role written for her by J.M. Barrie—retired from the stage. Still reeling from the deaths of her mother and best friend, and recovering from the flu that had just swept the globe, she moved to upstate New York, where a lightbulb went off that would change the art of storytelling forever. P. Pan Et Al follows Adams as she corrals a team of General Electric engineers and inventors in their attempts to lasso the sun. Their collaboration yields incandescent lamps powerful enough to capture "living photographs" in color, yet Maude's name leaves barely a trace in the annals of cinematic history. P. Pan Et Al explores the complicated place of a queer woman in STEM before Women in STEM and the peculiar power of the wizards and wizardesses who shape the technology that shapes us. *A historical re-imagining based upon true events.