Books

THE CASTING HANDBOOK

Jennifer and her co-writer Suzy Catliff CDG, realised that casting – the crucial element of any production – was overlooked in professional Film and Theatre director training education. So they wrote The Casting Handbook to explain the casting process from beginning to end covering everything producers and directors need to know.

With their admirable attention to detail, Catliff and Granville have demystified casting and have created an incredibly useful source of reference for all theatre and film practitioners.
A ‘must have’ for actors, directors and all involved with casting.

Amir Koringy, President of Theatre of Arts Hollywood, previously Director of Acting at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts

Prime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations

Jennifer’s brother, Andrew is a number theorist who enjoys finding new ways of communicating complicated mathematical concepts. He invited Jennifer to collaborate with him to adapt an academic paper into a screenplay. Daunted but intrigued Jennifer agreed and the screenplay was successfully published and then given a live performance at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies. Attending that performance was the Math Editor from Princeton University Press who invited Andrew and Jennifer to adapt the work into a graphic novel – they were introduced to the artist, Robert J. Lewis and ten years later Prime Suspects was published.

One of the most creative ways to present advanced mathematical ideas that I have seen.

Terence Tao, University of California, Los Angeles

ART IN THE LIFE OF MATHEMATICIANS

Jennifer, Andrew and Michael Spencer, their stage designer from the Princeton performance, were invited to contribute a chapter about their process to this book about the nature of creativity and how it connects across mathematics and art.

...we are all eager to learn from each other the present volume is a most valuable contribution to this interesting dialogue.

Sir Andras Schiff, pianist and conductor

STRANGE ATTRACTORS

Jennifer attended a creative workshop for writers and scientists at the Banff Arts Centre in British Columbia, where theoretical concepts collided with poetry. The result? Several poems, including ‘Cat in a Box’—a tribute to Einstein, Schrödinger’s Cat, Alain Aspect, and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Her poem made it into this anthology—proving that even cats in boxes can find their way out.

What, after all is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

David Eugene Smith

THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL MONTHLY

Poems written during the Banff workshop were also published in several volumes of The American Mathematical Monthly.