Our Planet Live
Original Documentary Series with Dan Tapster
Date: Saturday, May 3, 2025
Time: Meet at McCarter at 6:30PM / Performance at 7:00PM
Place: McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, Princeton, NJ
From the Emmy® Award-winning team behind Netflix’s Our Planet series comes Our Planet Live, an immersive natural history presentation with Emmy-nominated showrunner Dan Tapster.
Four billion years. Millions of species. Five mass extinction events (and counting, but more on that later). It’s the story of Life on Our Planet, a stunning new series chronicling the ongoing rise and fall of lives on Earth, from the cataclysmic events that reshape our ecosystems to the creatures that survived (or didn’t) along the way. Because life always finds a way — but as this epic journey proves, the road from single-celled life-form to the biodiversity we know today was anything but drama free.
Dan Tapster
An 8-times Emmy-nominated showrunner, Dan Tapster started out at the BBC Natural History Unit in the 1990s where he worked on series including Sir David Attenborough’s Life of Mammals. Following a varied career which included being kidnapped by Quichua Indians in Ecuador and firing cannonballs through houses by mistake, he became the showrunner for a TV show that went on to become the second most-watched factual TV series in history: the phenomenon that is MythBusters. After leading the show to 12 series renewals and over 18 billion views of Keith Scholey job as Controller of Factual Production, responsible for all BBC ‘in house’ Factual content to join Silverback Films and continue the mission and aim of making content that makes a difference. Awards for productions he has been responsible for include Emmys, Baftas, RTS’s, Wildscreen pandas and Jackson Hole Awards. He was awarded a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Bristol. Dan left MythBusters in 2016 and after more pop-science shows, he joined Silverback films in 2018. Combining visual flair with strong story telling, at Silverback Films, Dan was the showrunner for the epic that is Life on Our Planet (Netflix). Executive produced by Steven Spielberg, LOOP uses stunning natural history and world-class VFX to reveal the story of life in a way that has never been attempted before.
ARRIVE AT 6:30PM that evening and gather with other Harvard alumni in the lobby of the Matthews Theater for good conversation before the 7:00PM performance. Wear crimson so we can easily find each other.
RSVP BEFORE NOON ON FRIDAY, APRIL 18. We have reserved excellent seats for this performance. Unsold tickets will be released for sale to the general public after that date and time.
Organizer: Fred Larcombe
Cost: $36 per person for members & their guests, $42 for non-members
Tickets: CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS!!!
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