Show Plot Silent Sky

Authors: Lauren Gunderson

Time Period: Begins in 1900 and spans the next several decades into the 1910s and 1920s.

Summary:

Silent Sky is a 105-minute, two-act play written by contemporary American that tells the true story of pioneering 19th- and early 20th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt as she maps the stars, navigates systemic sexism in academia, and calculates the measurement of the universe.