2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalists

● Brent Askari, Exiled Kings of Persia
● Kari Barclay, Stonewallin’
● Benjamin Benne, In His Hands, or, the gay christian play
● France-Luce Benson, Tigress of San Domingue
● J. Corey Buckner, Cross Roads: An Igbo Folktale
● Diana Burbano, Sapience
● Darcy Parker Bruce, The Place that Made You
● John J. Caswell, Jr., Wet Brain
● Preston Choi, the performing class
● Mia Chung, This Exquisite Corpse
● Clarence Coo, Chapters of a Floating Life
● Val Dunn, O, Possum!
● Tyler English-Beckwith, Mingus
● Nancy Garcia Loza, Tocaya
● Emma Goldman-Sherman, FUKT
● Min Kahng, Freedom Conference
● Stefani Kuo, Final Boarding Call
● Leora Lihach, Madres de la Revolución
● Felice Locker, Mud Season
● Gloria Majule, Culture Shock
● Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin, The Well-Tempered Clavier
● Daria Miyeko Marinelli, This is Not What I Expected When I Imagined a Republic
● Eliana Pipes, Dream Hou$e
● Juan Ramirez, Jr., Calling Puerto Rico
● Jordan Ramirez Puckett, To Saints and Stars
● Julius Rea, Mercy
● Deneen Reynolds-Knott, Babes in Ho-lland
Harrison David Rivers, The Salvagers
Andrew Rosendorf, One-Shot
● Lisa Sanaye Dring, The Wicked One
● Omar Vélez Meléndez, We Built Our Homes Near Kingdoms of Animals and Magic
● Lisa VillaMil, Siren
● Noelle Viñas, Derecho
● Ali Viterbi, Shame Spiral (or a probably-bad-stupid-nobody-will-ever-want-to-watch-it play about The Bachelor)
● Stephanie Alison Walker, The Ordeal of Water

2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalists

● Sara Jean Accuardi, The Storyteller
● Carissa Atallah, Brown Face
● Ian August, Zero
● Librecht Baker, Taciturn Beings
● Jennifer Barclay, Hot Little Slice
● Chris Barlow, Equity (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Student Loans)
● Marilynn Barner Anselmi, Mitigating Damages
● Claudia Barnett, Kingdom (a play about Snow White and climate change)
● David Beardsley, Holy and Unruly
● Bleu Beckford-Burrell, La Race
● Norman L. Berman, The Tchaikovsky Letters
● Amy Bernstein, The Legend of Tommy Tremain
● Lyndsey Bourne, Coathanger
● Scott Bradley, A Kingdom Jack’d
● Nikki Brake-Sillá, Trouble of the World
● Jen Browne, Wadada and the Whale
● Rachel Bublitz, Funny, Like an Abortion
● Sarah Burry, Fruit of the Ancients
● Rachel Bykowski, 28 Light Years From Now
● Stacey Isom-Campbell, Buffalo Creek
● Maria Cominis, Women of Zalongo
● Erin K. Considine, Twenty-Two (Dragging Angels as They Go)
● Shualee Cook, Earworm
● Sandra a. Daley-Sharif, Straddling the Edge
● Emily Dendinger, The Grand Illusion Show
● Rebecca Deutsch, Wolf
● Dolores Diaz, The Curse of Giles Corey
● Mathilde Dratwa, A Play About David Mamet Writing a Play about Harvey Weinstein
● Ai Eibashi, Deirdre the Queer Queen
● Jaime Estades, Five Sessions
● Kim Euell, The Dance
● Kareem Fahmy, A Distinct Society
● Jeanette Farr, Turning Over
● Lauren Ferebee, Wild Eden
● Dominic Finocchiaro, how it feels to fall from the sky
● Mercedes Floresislas, CJ, An Aspanglish Play
● Amy Gijsbers van Wijk, Dirty Dirty
● Peter Gil-Sheridan, Ascendant
● Robin Goldberg, Katie and Dom are Friends
● MJ Halberstadt, The Usual Unusual
● Harrison Harvey, Dudes
● Anderson John Heinz, Painted Brick/White Houses
● Gethsemane A. Herron-Coward, Blanks
● David Hilder, Those Days Are Over
● Jess Honovich, Everything You Wanted
● Tom Horan, The Brain Thief
● Julia Izumi, (An Audio Guide for) Unsung Snails and Heroes
● Claude Jackson, The Last Holdouts
● Fly Jamerson, Frozen Fluid

● Lindsay Joelle, The Messengers
● Angie Bridgette Jones, Lenny’s Fast Food Kids Gang
● Ken Kaissar, Weekend at Betty’s
● Hannah Kenah, Three Shitty Sons
● Christopher A. Kess, North Avenue
● Barrie Kreinik, A Thousand Shapes
● Molly Olis Krost, Nanay
● Carol S. Lashof, Doing School
● Drew Lewis, Will You Bury Me
● Matthew Libby, Data
● Yilong Liu, The PrEP Play, or, Blue Parachute
● Rachel Lynett, Rich B*tch
● Zizi Majid, Return to Fall
● Eric Marlin, there will come a time for vengeance
● Joslyn McLaughlin, The Silver Thread
● Julián Mesri, Immersion
● Karen Marguerite Moloney, Watermarked
● Greg Nanni, The Bear is Here
● Laura Neill, Just Cause
● Dan O’Neil, the alleged children of darkness
● Briandaniel Oglesby, Piper
● Novid Parsi, The Innkeepers
● Aidaa Peerzada, Shining
● Drew Petriello, A Gap in the Melody
● Alexander Pine, Immortality Crisis
● Reynaldo Piniella, Black Doves
● Megan Pope, Dox Modern Middle
● Robin Rice, Listen! The River
● Jelisa Jay Robinson, Delivery
● Skye Robinson Hillis, Bury the Rest
● Jesse Robkin, Austin’s Home
● Tammy Ryan, Take My Hand and Wave Goodbye
● Eric Serrano, The Crook’Ed Timeline
● Andrew Sianez-De la O, The Ortiz Twins Are Coming Home
● Crystal Skillman, Rain & Zoe Save the World
● Leegrid Stevens, A Peregrine Falls
● Ryan Stevens, Modern Blood
● Gina Stevensen, Tell Me What I Want
● Ellen Steves, Thin Mints
● Jay Stull, The Singularity Play
● Gage Tarlton, sons that wear dresses and mothers that love sweet potatoes
● Traci Tolmaire, Chi-Boy (pronounced Shy-boy)
● Jason Tseng, Ghost Money
● T. Tara Turk-Haynes, The Mic Catches Everything
● Sinan Unel, Miller Hill
● David Valdes, Much Undone
● Daysha Veronica, 19/20 Vision
● J.D. Volk, Chrysalis
● Sholeh Wolpe, The Silver Bangle
● Irene Ziegler, Chimborazo Hill