A Noble Affair
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Marie Curie was one of the leading feminist figures of the scientific world, facing obstacles in her professional and personal life, both exacerbated by gender discrimination. This is the story of how she proved the existence of the element Radium, thereby paving the way for many discoveries in nuclear science and earning her a second Nobel Prize.
Anil Baral
Producer
As a writer/producer, Anil has various projects in television, feature film, and theatre. As a producer, Anil has participated in Film Independent’s Producer’s Lab, Film Independent’s Fast Track Program, and IFP’S No Borders Program for The Rosenbergs, a controversial biopic of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, written by Yon Motskin. Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men, Top of the Lake, The One I Love) is starring. Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls, Madame Bovary) is directing with planned fall 2016 shoot. In 2009 and 2011, Anil was awarded a Tribeca Institute & Sloan Foundation Screenplay Grant for a biopic on the scientist, Marie Curie, A Noble Affair, co-written with Kathryn Maughan. Neda Armian (Rachel Getting Married, The Longest Week, Why Stop Now) is producing. Carole Scotta and Caroline Benjo of Haut et Court (They Came Back, Coco Before Chanel, Ma vie en rose, The Class) are also producing. In television, Anil participated in the 2011 Producer’s Guild of America Diversity Workshop for a television pilot, which he wrote with his partner, Carla Blair.
Kathryn Maughan
Writer
Kathryn Maughan grew up in Roy, Utah and moved to New York City in 1993. She graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, and then moved to Costa Rica for eighteen months. Upon her return to New York, she enrolled in Columbia University, where she majored in literature and fiction writing. Later she enrolled in New York University/Tisch School of the Arts’ Dramatic Writing program, from which she got her Master’s of Fine Arts in 2005. Kathryn’s ten-minute play, Aftermath, was a finalist for the 2004 Heideman Award at the
Actors Theatre of Louisville. A screenplay, White Space, was a quarter-finalist with the
PAGE International Screenwriting Competition and a semi-finalist with Scriptapalooza
2005. A personal essay, A Love Story, took third place in the 2007 Eugene England
Memorial Essay contest. She is the author of the novel Did I Expect Angels? published in 2007.