Love Is Brilliant
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Love is Brilliant is a romantic comedy with a brain -- a love story between two scientists. Henry is a neurotic physicist with a deep fear of public speaking. Ginny is a perky but brilliant southern belle. As the pair team up to work on a paper for an important physics prize, Ginny falls in love with the work and Henry falls in love with Ginny. In the midst of multi-million dollar machines, awesome computing power, and the world's most powerful physics lab, this tale proves, physics at its core, is a fundamentally romantic subject. It gives us a glimpse into a larger universe. This story, while about science and scientists, is rooted in magical realism. It is a blending of Like Water for Chocolate and L.A. Story; a whimsical twisting of reality and fantasy. The future changes the past and brings two physicists together. They fall in love despite his neurosis, her husband and their firm belief that there is no such thing as destiny.
Penny Penniston
Writer
After graduating with a Radio/TV/Film degree from Northwestern University in 1992, Penny Penniston worked for five years as an advertising copywriter for EURO RSCG Tatham in Chicago, Illinois. In 1998, Penniston left Tatham to become a free-lance copywriter and to pursue an interest in playwriting and screenwriting. As a playwright, Penniston began by co-adapting The Roaring Girl, a 1611 comedy by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker. This play had its world premiere in 1999 with Shakespeare’s Motley Crew in Chicago, Illinois and was nominated for “Best Adaptation” by Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Committee. Penniston’s second play was now then again, which was adapted for the screen as “Love is Brilliant.” It ran for 17 weeks, received wide critical acclaim and won a Joseph Jefferson Citation for “Best Adaptation.” Penniston currently serves as Head of the Playwriting Department at Northwestern University.