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2024 Bay Area Playwrights Festival
April 12–21 in person at the Magic in YPT
May 6-12 On Demand
We’re thrilled to welcome these powerful new voices and stories to the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival as they explore courageous acts of belonging and unearth hidden truths, illuminating what lies ahead.
Be a part of the creative process and embark on a journey of storytelling, play, and connection.
BAPF IN PERSON DATES & TIMES
Fridays 4/12 & 4/19 at 7:30 pm
Saturdays 4/13 & 4/20 at 12:30 pm & 7:30 pm
Sundays 4/14 & 4/21 at 12:30 pm & 7:30 pm
Nan by Noa Gardner
A gut-wrenching drama about a life-or-death decision that exposes a loud silence within three generations of Hawaiian women.
Water Spirits by Alicia Kester
An interactive exploration of ancestry, memory, and the displacement of Black communities after a natural disaster.
Children of the Wise
by Aidaa Peerzada
A bilingual speculative history in which a granddaughter discovers her mysterious family legacy in a colonized land.
The Great Privation: How to flip ten cents into a dollar by Nia Akilah Robinson
A poetic time bending journey across centuries examines grave robbings impact on Black life and scientific advancement.
Fear & Wonder by Jason Tseng
A forbidden love story sparks at a Christian camp, where two boys of color find solace amidst a world threatening to tear them apart.
We’ve reimagined our core programs to provide deeper support for playwrights. Our new purpose to support and empower playwrights artistic growth and careers shifts organizational focus from new play development to a greater emphasis on playwrights’ overall artistic growth and career advancement. If you want to learn more, San Francisco Chronicle and American Theatre also reported on these changes.
The Bay Area Playwrights Festival will now be held every other year in order to expand the pre-festival program from four to twelve months. So we hope you join us in 2024 for this biennial event!
We believe that playwrights matter.
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Sam says…
“I had an amazing experience at BAPF and feel like I’m in a different place as a writer.”
-Sam Hamashima (them+), BAPF2021
Noelle says…
“One of the first orgs in San Francisco to invest and believe in me as a writer.
I ask you to support them because they helped me get to where I am today.”
-Noelle Viñas (she/her), RPI 2017-19, BAPF2020
Miyoko says…
“Consider supporting this amazing organization if you can!
Working with Playwrights Foundation was one of the best experiences of my playwriting life.”
– Miyoko Conley (she/her), BAPF2021
What’s new with our Alumni:
Congrats BAPF and RPI alum Jonathan Spector on his upcoming play at the Old Vic in London!
Oscar-winning actor Helen Hunt just joined the European premiere of EUREKA DAY by Jonathan Spector (a multi-year alum of BAPF and former PF Resident Playwright), announced for September at the Old Vic in London. Congrats, Jon! Info.
Michael Gene Sullivan wins a Guggenheim Fellowship to support his playwrighting!
Congratulations to Michael Gene Sullivan (RPI member 2017-20, Rough Reading 2021) who has said he plans to use his Guggenheim fellowship to write a play about Ida B. Wells and her husband, Ferdinand Lee Barnett, who were both journalists and activists.
Congrats to RPI member Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko, joining the Core Writers at Playwrights’ Center!
The Playwrights’ Center Core Writer program gives a group of the most exciting playwrights from across the country the time and tools to develop new work for the stage. Congrats to Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko (RPI member 2019-22), joining the 2023 cohort!