World Premiere of “One in Twenty-Five” “Truth Under Pressure: NASA, Politics, and the Fallout of Challenger”

“One in Twenty-Five,” written, produced, and performed Thomas M. Copeland, dramatizes with intellectual flair the 1986 testimony of an in-over-their-head NASA Acting Administrator navigating a political inquiry curated to protect the government’s interests in the weeks following the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Drawing directly from public records and NASA archives, Copeland skillfully fictionalizes the tension between science, politics, and institutional accountability culminating in a showdown on NASA’s culture of risk and denial. Cast: Chris Jaymes (Deliver me From Nothing, In Memory of my Father, LOST), Paul Albe (To Kill a Mockingbird at Papermill Playhouse, The Sopranos, Sex and the City), and Copeland (Deathtrap, God of Carnage, and the upcoming Netflix film Don’t Say Good Luck). Directed by Nick Browne (Directing Observer on Swept Away, Midnight Coleslaw’s Tales from Beyond the Closet!!!)