{"id":13798,"date":"2020-06-23T09:42:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T13:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=13798"},"modified":"2020-06-23T10:05:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:05:17","slug":"the-worlds-a-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2020\/06\/the-worlds-a-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s a Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seen here performing in The Wizard of Oz, with the Charm City Players, Eisner spends his days as a professor of computer
science at the Whiting School, where much of his work is focused in the Center for Language and Speech Processing. (PHOTO COURTESY OF JASON EISNER)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not many actors can say that they shared a stage with Sacha Baron Cohen.<\/p>\n

Jason Eisner<\/a>, a professor of computer science, can.<\/p>\n

While attending the University of Cambridge in the early 1990s, he played Lazar Wolf to Baron Cohen\u2019s Tevye in a production of Fiddler on the Roof<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the number \u2018To Life,\u2019 I rode around on his shoulders,\u201d recalls Eisner.<\/p>\n

Baron Cohen went on to become a well-known performer and comedian, and Eisner an expert in computational linguistics and a computer science professor. But whenever he has time, Eisner still treads the boards in local community theater productions, delighting audiences (and theater critics) in roles such as My Fair Lady\u2019s<\/em> Henry Higgins and the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t