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Interview with director Lee Sunday Evans and Maura Haney writer of The Poisoner for Kenosha Community Media.

September 22, 2026 / WQED Voices of the Arts with Jim Cunningham Episode Summary Uncommon Productions' The Poisoner makes a stop on its fall tour at Alumni Theater Company this weekend! Producer Carina Chavda & actors Aaron Morton and Haskell King speak with Jim Cunningham about the play. Episode Notes Uncommon Productions' The Poisoner makes a stop on its fall tour at Alumni Theater Company this weekend! Producer Carina Chavda & actors Aaron Morton and Haskell King speak wit

Aaron Morton as Ron Finder September 17, 2026 / by Paul Willistein, Lehigh Valley Press / Read on lvpnews.com “The Poisoner” is a compelling, thought-provoking and important drama. The play, through Sept. 19, Touchstone Theatre, is written by M. M. Haney and directed and was developed by Lee Sunday Evans. “The Poisoner” had its first run in 2024 at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York City. Touchstone Theatre is the first stop on a seven-city tour that includes stops i

Lee Sunday Evans September 17, 2026 // by Kathy Lauer-Williams, WFMZ News, read on wfmz.com Touchstone Theatre in Bethlehem will open its season with "The Poisoner,” a touring production inspired by the Flint, Michigan, water crisis. “The Poisoner” is a neo-noir thriller about the deception, abuse of power, and negligence of Midwestern water politics in the 2000s. The original production, written by first-time playwright M.M. Haney, was developed by two-time Obie Award-winnin

Shawn Randall and Lisbeth Mackay in the 2024 premiere at La MaMa Experimental Theaatre Club in New York. August 24, 2026 / by Kate Scuffle, Lehigh Valley Arts Salon / Listen on wdiy.org Kate Scuffle looks at the upcoming Touchstone Theatre debut of the neo-noir thriller play The Poisoner with playwright M.M. Haney and director Lee Sunday Evans. The play, inspired by the Flint water crisis, follows a journalist who returns to his hometown and uncovers a story of power, democra

August 21, 2026 / Lehigh Valley With Love The Flint water crisis did not begin at the faucet. It grew out of economic decline, aging infrastructure and a system that removed local control from the people most affected by decisions about their water. George Wacker talks with playwright Maura Haney and two-time Obie Award-winning director Lee Sunday Evans about The Poisoner, a neo-noir thriller inspired by Flint. Maura explains why the play takes place in the fictional Mack Cit

Photo of Dr. Phil Sharp from the MIT Archives "Anything found to be true of E. coli must also be true of elephants." Jacques Monod, 1965 Nobel laureate for the discovery of bacterial operons Activity Description : Monod, who co-discovered how bacteria control gene expression, thought that since all life shares common ancestry, fundamental genetic rules should apply equally to everything from single-celled bacteria to mammals. In 1977, Dr. Phil Sharp, in collaboration with ot

Neo-Noir Thriller Inspired by the Flint Water Crisis August 3, 2026 / Read on PR Newswire Written by M.M. Haney | Developed and Directed by Two-Time Obie Award Winner Lee Sunday Evans Tour Runs September 17 – October 31, 2026 Uncommon Productions and Citizen56 announced today the 7-city national tour of The Poisoner, a gripping neo-noir thriller inspired by the Flint water crisis, running September 17 through October 31, 2026. Written by first-time playwright M.M. Haney and d

August 3, 2027 / Jai Smith read on lehighdaily.com BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A seven-city national tour of the neo-noir thriller “The Poisoner” will open at Touchstone Theatre on Sept. 17, 2026, giving Bethlehem the first performances of a production that runs through Halloween and closes in Detroit. The play, written by first-time playwright M.M. Haney and directed by two-time Obie Award winner Lee Sunday Evans, is a fictional work inspired by the 2014 Flint water crisis. It runs 90

Documentary Earns Gold and Four Silver Awards at the 47th Annual Telly Awards, Including Gold for General Documentary March 27, 2027 / read on prenewswire.com BOSTON, May 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Uncommon Productions announced today that its documentary Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution has won five Telly Awards in the record-breaking 47th Annual Telly Awards. The film received Gold in the General Documentary category, as well as Silver honors in the Pe

April 16, 2026 / by Isabella Katz read on celebrityinsider.com Mark Ruffalo is your narrator for a documentary film about Nobel laureate Phil Sharp, the scientist who changed the realm of biotechnology. The ‘Independent Lens’ picture, ‘Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution,’ is currently running. Ruffalo informed his fans about this and at the same time, allowed them to share his concern for the scientific story of great importance that he was involved in.

Last October, the James P. Allison Institute at MD Anderson Cancer Center hosted the premiere of Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution , a film that doesn’t just tell a story, but celebrates the relentless curiosity and transformative impact of science. It was such a treat to have both subjects of previous films on one stage answering thoughtful questions from the moderator, Alice Park of TIME Magazine. A Director’s Vision: Scientists as Heroes Bill Haney,

December 9, 2025 / read on washingtondc.jhu.edu Nobel-Prize-winning scientist Phil Sharp could have easily never come to discover RNA splicing, which launched the biotechnology revolution, in 1977. In many ways, the odds were stacked against him: He grew up on a farm in rural Kentucky, he struggled with dyslexia, and neither of his parents had attended college. Still, his parents encouraged him to go to college, and he saved money for tuition from raising cattle and selling t

November 16, 2025 / by Sendurai Mani read on oncodaily.com Sendurai Mani , Associate Director of Translational Oncology, Dean’s Chair of Translational Oncology, and Professor of Medicine at Brown University, and Co-Founder and CSO of Iylon Precision Oncology, shared a post on LinkedIn: “The Story Behind Gene Splicing, A Revolution That Earned a Nobel Prize and Transformed Modern Biotech" I recently had the privilege of hosting Dr. Philip Sharp at Brown University and watchin

October 21, 2025 / by Caroline Hemphill read on santacruzsentinel.com SANTA CRUZ — The UC Santa Cruz RNA Center hosted a premiere screening of “Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution” at the Landmark Del Mar Theatre Monday night. The film chronicles the life of Nobel laureate and molecular biologist Phil Sharp and the boom of the biotechnology industry. The film screening was followed by a panel discussion about Santa Cruz’s place in biotech, as well as a m

October 16, 2025 / by Alicia Gregory Read on Lexingtonky.news LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 16, 2025) — The University of Kentucky community is invited to the documentary film premiere of “Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp & the Biotech Revolution” 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23 at the Kentucky Theatre, with a post-screening conversation on UK biotech research, innovation and commercialization. “Cracking the Code,” directed by Bill Haney and narrated by Mark Ruffalo, chronicles the life of

October 15, 2025 / By Stephen D'Angelo read on news.cornell.edu A new documentary chronicling the life and scientific legacy of Nobel Laureate Phil Sharp will be screened at Cornell Cinema on Monday, Oct. 27, at 6 p.m. in Willard Straight Hall. Sponsored by the Cornell Institute of Biotechnology, the showing is free and open to the public. Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution traces how Sharp’s 1977 discovery of RNA splicing transformed molecular biology

September 23, 2025 / Sounds of Film with Nom Needham Listen on Spotify.com On this week’s Sounds of Film, host Tom Needham speaks with...

September 22, 2025 / Nerds Rule the World Watch on YouTube.com CRACKING THE CODE will be available on PBS Stations, Platforms, and...

September 12, 2025 / By Addie Morfoot Read on Variety.com 'Cracking the Code' premieres on October 6, 2025. Despite Trump's budget cut,...