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New York Actress Does Lake Tuggeranong College

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  • Lake Tuggeranong College
    123 Cowlishaw Street, Greenway ACT 2900, Australia

Heather Massie takes her one-woman show on Hollywood beauty and inventor Hedy Lamarr to Lake Tuggeranong College in Canberra. Hedy was dubbed the most beautiful woman Hollywood in the 1930s-1940s - but she had a secret.

Hedy invented things in her spare time in Hollywood and developed technology for torpedoes during WWII. The same technology launched today's wireless revolution and is used in our cell phones, WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth.  Hedy invented navigation systems to help torpedo's beat German defences.  She did this in her dressing room between takes.

Heather will combine practical workshops on acting and writing, with a talk on how the play came about.  She devised the play in 2016, with the aim of encouraging girls to take up science.  She herself did astro-physics at university.

She won a Fulbright Award to bring the play to Australia and has performed it in 16 countries.  Her play has won 28 awards.

 

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