Human Museum
Set in a future where humans have gone extinct, Human Museum follows a group of robots on Earth that run a museum dedicated to organizing the physical and digital artifacts of human life. On the centenary of human extinction, an unexpected radio call upends everything the robots thought they knew about the last days of humanity.
Playwright
Miyoko Conley
Miyoko Conley (she/her) is an Asian American playwright, games writer, and scholar based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her plays have been presented in the Bay Area and New York City, including at the University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles; (2g) Second Generation; The Tank; The Wild Project; and New York University. Past works include Starship Dance Party (developed with the New Play Reading series at UC Berkeley); End of the World Place (2015 semi-finalist Bay Area Playwrights Festival); Untitled Fantasy (part of 2g’s Jumpstart Commissions); and Interchangeable Parts (part of 2g’s Free Range Commissions). As a games writer, she is a current mentee in the UK-based Talespinners Mentorship Programme. Conley holds a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MA from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is currently receiving a PhD in Performance Studies and New Media from the University of California, Berkeley.
Director
Bob Shryock
Bob (he/him) is humbled & thrilled to be a part of Human Museum’s development journey! Originally from Manila, Philippines, Bob is an LA & Bay Area-based director, actor-creator, educator and story-maker. As a director, recent productions include Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and GOLD: the Midas Musical (Theatre Bay Area Award for Outstanding World Premiere Musical, finalist for TBA Award for Outstanding Direction of a Musical) both by Min Kahng for Bay Area Children’s Theatre. Bob holds an MFA in Physical Theatre from Accademia dell’Arte (Arezzo, Italy) and Certificates of Training in Circus from FLIC Scuola di Circo (Turin, Italy) and Pantomime & Mask from Berliner Schule für Schauspiel (Berlin, Germany). Bob co-Chairs the BIPOC/Global Majority Theatre Persons committee for the Southeastern Theatre Conference and is Program Director for the MFA in Screen Acting Program at Oklahoma City University’s Los Angeles Campus. Endless thanks to Nat for her belief, support and inspiration!
Dramaturg
Divinia Shorter
Divinia Shorter (she/her) is a writer and theater artist born and based in the DMV. Divinia’s best work is supporting and uplifting the work of others via dramaturgy, and she currently works as the Literary Manager & Artistic Associate at Adventure Theatre MTC and is the co-founder of Greatest City Collective, a non-profit organization focused on uplifting artists and the social causes they care about. A writer of many forms, she is currently working on a novel, a collection of sestinas, and a full-length play. Dramaturgy credits include: UC Santa Barbara, Kennedy Center NNPN MFA Playwrights’ Workshop, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, DMV Q-Fests, Quarantined Theatre Company, and Towson University. Her dramaturgical analysis article “Run Me My Language” is available online.