The Making of Our Planet
Original Documentary Series with Dan Tapster
Saturday May 3, 2025 at 7:00PM
Matthews Theatre
2 hours, no intermission
From the Emmy® Award-winning team behind Netflix’s Our Planet comes The Making of Our Planet Live—a thrilling, immersive experience featuring Emmy-nominated showrunner Dan Tapster. Go behind the scenes with the explorers, filmmakers, and scientists who captured some of the most breathtaking footage of our world.
Four billion years. Millions of species. Five mass extinction events. (And counting—but more on that later.) Life on Our Planet is a stunning new series chronicling the rise and fall of life on Earth—from cataclysmic events that reshaped ecosystems to the creatures that survived (or didn’t). Because life always finds a way—but as this epic journey proves, evolution is anything but drama-free.
About Dan Tapster
An eight-time Emmy-nominated showrunner, Dan Tapster began his career at the BBC Natural History Unit, working on series including Sir David Attenborough’s Life of Mammals. His unconventional career includes being kidnapped by Quichua Indians in Ecuador and accidentally firing cannonballs through houses. As showrunner of MythBusters, he led the series to 12 renewals and over 18 billion views, making it the second most-watched factual TV series in history.
In 2018, Tapster joined Silverback Films as the showrunner for Netflix’s Life on Our Planet, executive produced by Steven Spielberg. The groundbreaking series blends breathtaking natural history with cutting-edge VFX to tell Earth’s greatest story like never before. Tapster holds a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Bristol and has received Emmys, BAFTAs, and RTS awards.
