Are we stuck with our memories - or can we fix them? Pia is a neuroscientist whose research focuses on changing the way we process traumatic experiences. Will Pia's emotionally distant mother - who survived the Khmer Rouge in 1970's Cambodia - benefit from her daughter's work? Or are some things just too terrible to remember?Includes a conversation with Dr. Daniela Schiller, a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City."What You Are Now" is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in November 2022Directed by Anna Lyse EriksonProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergAn L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording starring:Carie Kawa as PiaTess Lina as ChantreaJoe Ngo as DaranySamantha Quan as SiobhanMark Jude Sullivan as EvanGreg Watanabe as the NarratorSenior Producer: Anna Lyse EriksonPrepared for Audio by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West HollywoodRecording Engineer, Editor and Mixer: Charles CarrollSound Design by Charles Carroll and David WilsonSenior Radio Producer: Ronn LipkinFoley Artist: Jeff GardnerThe original song "What You Are Now" is by Him Sophy, founder of the Him Sophy School of Music in Pnomh Penh.Special thanks to Professor Craig Woodson and Dr. Terry Miller for their recording of "The Sorrowful King" from "Roots of Rhythm.net."
