Plastic Ocean by Makena Metz
Isabel Martinez, to the scientific community, or IZZY to her friends, if she had any, has a PHD in marine biology. She’s spent most of her 20s at Cal State Monterey Bay, and finally graduates, excited to get to work cleaning up the ocean. After Izzy fails to get a 50,000-dollar grant, she decides to man her own research vessel, putting forward a hypothesis that she can mutate a fish to eat plastic, which she...
Isabel Martinez, to the scientific community, or IZZY to her friends, if she had any, has a PHD in marine biology. She’s spent most of her 20s at Cal State Monterey Bay, and finally graduates, excited to get to work cleaning up the ocean. After Izzy fails to get a 50,000-dollar grant, she decides to man her own research vessel, putting forward a hypothesis that she can mutate a fish to eat plastic, which she hopes will get her published and win her awards.
However, Izzy’s never led a team before, and it doesn’t help that she looks like a 14-year-old or has been in school most of her life. Izzy and her team of research scientists must work together, using the scientific method to journey through science fiction and into science fact. Will Izzy learn to lead and clean up the ocean? Or will her experiment fail?
This musical is a call to action that we need to clean up our own oceans and become passionate about solving human made ecological problems. It’d a female driven, TYA narrative that will not only entertain, but inform. This musical is family friendly.