Humanity Needs Dreamers:
A Visit With Marie Curie -
Digital Theater
A Visit With Marie Curie -
Digital Theater
As one of the world’s most renowned scientists, two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Skłodowska Curie is best known for pioneering the field of radioactivity — including early experiments to treat cancer with radium therapy — but few understand the obstacles she faced just to enter the laboratory.
What if Marie Curie could tell her story?
The MIT Kavli Institute, MIT Department of Physics and STEM on Stage presents a digital theater showing of HUMANITY NEEDS DREAMERS: A VISIT WITH MARIE CURIE (42 mins) on Friday, November 7, 2025 from 7:30PM - 9:00PM.
RSVP LINK - CLICK HERE
HUMANITY NEEDS DREAMERS invites audiences to meet Marie Curie as she recollects her quest to isolate two elements — polonium and radium. From her childhood in Poland to groundbreaking research in France, Marie Curie shares the struggles, failures and triumphs behind her scientific discoveries and remarkable collaboration with companion scientist and husband Pierre Curie.
Masterfully portrayed by living history scholar Susan Marie Frontczak, HUMANITY NEEDS DREAMERS is the cinematic version of her acclaimed one-woman show. This unique format breaks the digital fourth wall between live theater and film, past and present.
Hosted by Dr. Anna Frebel, Professor of Physics at MIT, the screening will be followed by a Q & A with filmmaker Jen Myronuk and scholar/performer Susan Marie Frontczak (virtual).
Recommended for adults and students 10 & older.
Free with RSVP!
Doors open at 7pm and program starts at 7:30pm.
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ABOUT SUSAN MARIE FRONTCZAK,
STORYSMITH SCHOLAR & PERFORMER
What if Marie Curie could tell her story?
The MIT Kavli Institute, MIT Department of Physics and STEM on Stage presents a digital theater showing of HUMANITY NEEDS DREAMERS: A VISIT WITH MARIE CURIE (42 mins) on Friday, November 7, 2025 from 7:30PM - 9:00PM.
RSVP LINK - CLICK HERE
HUMANITY NEEDS DREAMERS invites audiences to meet Marie Curie as she recollects her quest to isolate two elements — polonium and radium. From her childhood in Poland to groundbreaking research in France, Marie Curie shares the struggles, failures and triumphs behind her scientific discoveries and remarkable collaboration with companion scientist and husband Pierre Curie.
Masterfully portrayed by living history scholar Susan Marie Frontczak, HUMANITY NEEDS DREAMERS is the cinematic version of her acclaimed one-woman show. This unique format breaks the digital fourth wall between live theater and film, past and present.
Hosted by Dr. Anna Frebel, Professor of Physics at MIT, the screening will be followed by a Q & A with filmmaker Jen Myronuk and scholar/performer Susan Marie Frontczak (virtual).
Recommended for adults and students 10 & older.
Free with RSVP!
Doors open at 7pm and program starts at 7:30pm.
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ABOUT SUSAN MARIE FRONTCZAK,
STORYSMITH SCHOLAR & PERFORMER
Through storysmith.org, Susan Marie Frontczak has created and performed six different Living History characters across 43 of the United States and abroad, she plays in theaters, corporations, schools, libraries, and festivals internationally — including performing Manya: The Living History of Marie Curie and A Visit with Marie Curie over 480 times to over 63,000 people in 34 states and nine countries.
In dramatizing the life of Marie Skłodowska Curie, Susan Marie pays homage to their shared Polish heritage. Marie Curie’s perseverance in purifying a tenth of a gram of radium from a ton of pitchblende, in part, inspired Susan Marie to major in Engineering. She earned a B.S. in Engineering from Swarthmore College and a Masters in Software Engineering from the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies, and worked for fourteen years at Hewlett-Packard Company before pursuing full time writing and performing.
Susan Marie has always viewed both science and art as complimentary outlets for creativity. It is her aim to reveal the human behind the scientist, while placing Dr. Marie Curie’s life and accomplishments in a memorable historical context. www.storysmith.org
In dramatizing the life of Marie Skłodowska Curie, Susan Marie pays homage to their shared Polish heritage. Marie Curie’s perseverance in purifying a tenth of a gram of radium from a ton of pitchblende, in part, inspired Susan Marie to major in Engineering. She earned a B.S. in Engineering from Swarthmore College and a Masters in Software Engineering from the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies, and worked for fourteen years at Hewlett-Packard Company before pursuing full time writing and performing.
Susan Marie has always viewed both science and art as complimentary outlets for creativity. It is her aim to reveal the human behind the scientist, while placing Dr. Marie Curie’s life and accomplishments in a memorable historical context. www.storysmith.org
Location
MIT - Building 34, Room 101
50 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA
50 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA
Date & Time
November 7, 2025, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM