Alumni News

06 Feb Alumni News

Playwrights Foundation alumni are popping up everywhere! Check out some of what’s happening this month:

Julie Hébert’s play Tree is running now through 
March 7 at the San Francisco Playhouse – it first debuted at the 2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival!

“An unexpected knock at the door turns a family upside-down. In this story of beginnings and endings, betrayal and love, three generations twist and grow in astonishing ways. And where their roots meet may surprise you.”
Learn more and purchase your tickets here!

Lauren Yee’s Samsara opens Friday at Victory Gardens Theater – it first debuted at the 2012 Bay Area Playwrights Festival!

“Americans Katie and Craig are having a baby with Suraiya, a surrogate from India. As all three ‘parents’ anxiously await the baby’s due date, Katie and Suraiya are attacked by flights of their imagination.”

See the world premier of Yee’s new comedy from February 6 – March 8. Learn more and purchase your tickets here!
Want to see more Yee?

Come to PF’s April Rough Readings to see Yee’s new play King of the Yees

 
Jackie Sibblies Drury’s play We Are Proud to Present… runs this Friday, February 7 – March 7 at Just Theater – it first debuted at the 2011 Bay Area Playwrights Festival!

“We Are Proud to Present…is a hilarious, imaginative and incendiary exploration of race, power and narrative in America. A play within a play, six idealistic young actors – three white and three black – attempt to create a theater piece about a little known genocide in the early 20th century.”
Learn more and purchase your tickets here!

Anne Washburn’s play Mr. Burns runs February 18 – March 15 at the American Conservatory Theater

“In a post-apocalyptic Northern California, a group of strangers bond by recreating the infamous ‘Cape Feare’ episode of The Simpsons…An outrageous and enthusiastically acclaimed new comedy by Anne Washburn, Mr. Burns, a post-electric play is both a marvelous meta-tribute to the iconic first-family of contemporary pop-culture and a celebration of the power of generational storytelling.” -New York Times

Learn more and purchase your tickets here!

Mike Lew’s new play Teenage Dick will be read on Monday February 9th at Roble Hall in Stanford University, and on Tuesday February 10th at The Tides Theatre in San Francisco

“A commission from The Apothetae, a new NYC theater company dedicated to illuminating “the disabled experience,” Teenage Dick is a re-imagination of Richard III set in high school.”
Learn more and reserve your tickets here!

Don Nguyen’s play Red Flamboyant will be read at Aurora Theatre’s Global Age Project Readings on Monday, February 9th at 7:30pm

Jonathan Spector’s play FTW will be read at Aurora Theatre’s Global Age Project Readings on Monday, February 16th at 7:30pm