Where art and neuroscience meet on stage

UnRavelled is an award-winning play by Jake Broder, built on the lives of Anne Adams — a scientist who became a painter — and Maurice Ravel, composer of Boléro, both affected by Frontotemporal Dementia. The site had to carry a story told through theater, music, and visual art, and invite audiences to see dementia in a new light — with beauty, dignity, and expression.

I designed the site as a piece of visual storytelling in its own right — cinematic imagery, layered art and music, and a narrative flow that mirrors the production. It doubles as the hub for a national initiative: ticketing for the East Coast premiere and companion Brain Health Festival at Penn Live Arts (Annenberg Center, Philadelphia), plus the scientific-outreach and movement side of the project.

The craft matches the subject:

• Cinematic visual storytelling — art, music, and theater woven into the page itself.
• Slow, deliberate scroll — paced motion that mirrors the production’s emotional arc.
• Integrated ticketing for the premiere and companion festival.
• Accessible across devices, so the story carries on any screen.

The result is less a website than a digital companion to the work — a place that honors the story, sells tickets, and rallies a movement around brain health and creativity.