Benjy Steinberg, Writer 

Sloan Grant(s) Received: 2023, Sundance Institute, Episodic Award

Project Type: Pilot

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Length: 59 pages

Field of Science: Physics

Stage: Development 

Synopsis: 

THE PROFESSOR & THE SPY is an hourlong espionage thriller series set amidst the simmering political intrigue, the cutthroat competition, the dark secrets and far-reaching moral dillemmas of the Manhattan Project. It follows two scientific collaborators who start at odds, but become unlikely allies – and the loves of each other’s lives – all while their respective allegiances to America and the Soviet Union strain under the pressures of the burgeoning Cold War.