Human Nature creates original theater pieces about important environmental and social issues. Human Nature's philosophy is that theater, especially musical comedy, can educate and inform audiences about the relationship between human culture and the natural world. Human Nature has been able to reach audiences on the national and international level with their humorous approach to significant environmental and social issues. The troupe's most current project is Global Warming: The Musical.


What's Funny About Climate Change?

Human Nature on tour at the Electric Lodge in Los Angeles Photo: Joel Shipiro

As we proceed deeper into the new millennium, benchmarks in nature and society that have helped define reality continue to shift. Glaciers melt apace, sea levels rise, anti-terrorist military adventures morph into chronic, life-sapping warfare and third-rate actors become governors of great states. The disparity between the level of action we must take to seriously address global warming and what we actually accomplish continues to widen. But whole cultures so deeply compromised by the basic terms of their function can be, sadly, a satirist's banquet. (read more)

Human Nature
April 24, 2007
The environmentally focused musical/acting team Human Nature is going through an intense period of rest. This includes reconsideration and regrouping in preparation for another practical, Quixotic bout with the forces that are bringing us global warming. The company is currently working on a Christmas-season show entitled A Solstice Song. It promises to reinvigorate the Scrooge parable with vivid contemporary relevance, environmentally and socially. (read more)


Human Nature
September 20, 2005
Human Nature completed a final tour of What's Funny About Climate Change? at the end of April 2005 before retiring the show. This last jaunt was mostly to Humboldt-area high schools. We had experimented with a "reduced" version of the show for high schools while on the road in Wisconsin and New Mexico and managed to reach younger audiences. (read more)


Human Nature
September 6, 2004
Once again, the intrepid comedy idealists of Human Nature ride out into the American hinterlands to joust not so much `with' windmills as `for' them. Since February of last year, the company has been performing its threeperson comedy review, What's Funny About Climate Change?, throughout the United States in efforts to help provoke new and effective responses to global warming. (read more)


Human Nature - On the Road
October 1, 2000

Margaret Nazar and Jane Lapiner at Fish Camp - Arctic Red River Photo: David Simpson

A seat sale on an Inuit-owned airline finally enabled us Human Nature principals to parlay a small research grant into a long-delayed trip to the Canadian Arctic in September. The intent was to gain perspective on climate change for our impending production, Global Warming the Musical. Specifically, we set out to talk with elders who had lived many years on the land and could speak with authority about change. We visited five Inuvialuit and Gwich'in communities around the Mackenzie River delta; the farthest north was Tuktoyaktuk, on the Beaufort Sea, a large bay of the Arctic Ocean. The Mackenzie is the third-largest watershed in the Western Hemisphere (following the Amazon and Mississippi). The delta is a vast maze of ponds, lakes, channels, and rivers-more water than land-that drains north into the Beaufort Sea which is rendered shallow by Mackenzie sediments over most of its thousands of square miles. Framed to the west by the Richardson Mountains and upland tundra, the Mackenzie country is enormous, austerely beautiful, and almost entirely wild. (read more)



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