IN DEVELOPMENT
the interaction effect
the interaction effect
Composed by pamela stein lynde
libretto by laura barati
In The Interaction Effect, Mikaela, a senior statistics major at a liberal arts college, just wants to forget the night her friend Adam raped her at a college party, and her school administration’s painful mishandling of her assault. But when Mikaela learns that Adam has assaulted another student—a sophomore too scared to report the assault—she is forced to confront her community and administration’s desire to ignore campus sexual assault.
Please note that The Interaction Effect contains scenes and subject matter that may be upsetting to some viewers.
CREATORS
Praised for her “rich dramatics” (The Boston Globe), Pamela Stein Lynde is a versatile singer, composer, and music educator. She was a 2017-2019 composer fellow with American Opera Projects Composers & the Voice Workshop. Her music has been broadcast to audiences nation-wide on American Public Media’s show Performance Today. Ms. Stein Lynde recently had one of her compositions featured on the 2019 Lindsay Christiansen Art Song Festival, and was a featured guest composer on the OME New Music Festival in Phoenix. She has had works commissioned by Patchwork American Song Project, Guided Imagery Opera, Contemporary Undercurrent of Song Project, Poor Puppet, TEDx Carnegie Lake, and many others. As a singer, Pamela has built a career working with contemporary composers of all levels, from students to internationally recognized artists. She appears as a vocalist on minimalist composer Alexander Turnquist’s album Flying Fantasy, released on Western Vinyl. As a member of experimental Princeton-based country-techno band Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves, she performs frequently throughout the northeast. Pamela is an alumna of the Bang on a Can Summer Institute at Mass MoCA, OperaWorks, SICPP, and the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, and the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.
Laura Barati is a librettist, performer, and deviser of new works. 75 Miles, her short opera with composer Matt Boehler, premiered at The Kennedy Center through Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative. Other works include the operas Henna Leaves and Uprising with composer Aleksandra Weil, and the musicals How To Create a Young Girl and Miss Havisham’s Wedding.
Her writing has been performed in New York City at Prospect Theater Company, American Opera Projects, NYMF, Don’t Tell Mama, and The Duplex; and regionally at Barrington Stage Company, Two River Theater, and Music Theatre Kansas City. She is a founding member of the Chicago-based devising collective The Electric Brain and a Librettist Fellow with The American Opera Project’s Composers & The Voice Program. She trained at Kenyon College, the National Theater Institute, and received her M.F.A. in Graduate Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch.
PRESS
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Commission The Interaction Effect was initially developed in AOP’s Composers & the Voice program, through the generous sponsorship of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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