BAPF2022 SEMI FINALISTS AND FINALISTS

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2022 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Honorable Mention
  • Brown Face by Carissa Atallah
  • Cercle Hermaphroditos by Shualee Cook
  • Morbid Obesity Surprise Intervention Birthday Party by Amy Gijsbers van Wijk
  • Berlindia! by Daniel Holzman
  • Black Girl Joy by Phanésia Pharel
2022 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalists
  •  Brown Face by Carissa Atallah
  •  Manning by Benjamin Benne
  •  Brown Bodies on a Blue Earth by Cris Blak
  •  Cercle Hermaphroditos by Shualee Cook
  •  A Jumping-Off Point by Inda Craig-Galván
  •  Three Exorcisms by Avery Deutsch
  •  How to Let Your Lover Die by Elana Dykewomon
  •  Stoneheart by Georgina Escobar
  •  Morbid Obesity Surprise Intervention Birthday Party by Amy Gijsbers van Wijk
  •  amémonos // let us love each other by linda maria girón
  •  Comrades by Edward Gunawan
  •  Skin Song by Katherine Gwynn
  •  Berlindia! by Daniel Holzman
  •  An Arab Spring by Denmo Ibrahim
  •  Hot Money: A Zoological Quest for Immortality in the Madagascar Vanilla Boom by Fly Jamerson
  •  Men Accumulate by Peter Kim George
  •  A Picture of Two Boys by Nick Malakhow
  •  Fame Heaux by Leigh M. Marshall
  •  My Mother The Sun by massi monfiletto
  •  a home what howls (or the house what was ravine) by Matthew Olmos
  •  Remains and Returns by Novid Parsi
  •  The Killing Fields by Anya Pearson
  •  Black Girl Joy by Phanésia Pharel
  •  Saturday Mourning Cartoons by Iraisa Ann Reilly
  •  Apple-at-cha: A Ghost Story by Brooke-Erin Smith
  •  Close to Home by Sharifa Yasmin
2022 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalists
  • Tokens of Promise by Ada A.
  • Throw Away Temple by Ai Aida
  • Mikvah by Terry Baum
  • The Devil’s Salt by France-Luce Benson
  • Funny, Like An Abortion by Rachel Bublitz
  • Blerds by J. Corey Buckner
  • Beheading Columbus by Diana Burbano
  • Memory of Ice by Stacey Isom Campbell
  • Soul Birds, or Quit Your Job and Become A Woman by Libby Carr
  • Crawfish – We the Invisible by Gamal Chasten
  • Hedda and George by Sandra Daley-Sharif
  • Hotel Puerto Vallarta, a legitimate work of dramatic theatre by David Davila
  • uncle play, or, you won’t find a vintage hate shield on etsy by Jayne Deely
  • Homesick, or sacred heterosexual spaces by Ryan Drake
  • The Sea by Lisa Sanaye Dring
  • kitchen couch by Val Dunn
  • The Meaning of Ants in My Kitchen by Erin Edens
  • All My Mothers Dream in Spanish by Alexandra Espinoza
  • We Are All Waves on the Same Ocean by Daryl Lisa Fazio
  • This is Not Happening by Steven Felicelli
  • The Get Back by Jeremy Gillett
  • Upheave into a Slidecase by Katie Grant
  • The Ancestry Dot Com Play by Alyssa Haddad
  • Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea by Julia Izumi
  • Freedom Conference by Min Kahng
  • House of India by Deepak Kumar
  • Shake the Disease by Leif Larson
  • Kingdom of Wonder by Shayan Lotfi
  • Fifteen Hundred by Gloria Majule
  • Beautiful Blessed Child by Daria Miyeko Marinelli
  • and come apart by Eric Marlin
  • Seven-Letter Names by Kristian O’Hare
  • What We Found by Molly Olis Krost
  • 7 Secrets of Teaching Online by Evelyn Jean Pine
  • Lorena: a Tabloid Epic by Eliana Pipes
  • Time After Time Again by Madeline Puccioni
  • Javelina by Alexis Roblan
  • Isabel by ruth tang
  • Jinkies! or The Dog Play by Josiah Thomas Turner
  • Modern Love by Leela Velautham
  • The Deliverance by Daysha Veronica
  • Jawbone by Isabella Waldron
  • The Lost Ballad of Our Mechanical Ancestor (and the Terror the Old Gods Wrought Upon the First of Us Before the Great Liberation) by Madison Wetzell
  • The Silver Bangle by Sholeh Wolpé
  • Sestina for the Utah Sun Tunnels by J Xiang
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