Pictured: Playwrights Foundation Executive Artistic Director Jessica Bird Beza
Credit: Rachel Esther Tate
Pictured: Cat Brooks, 2024–2025 Resident Playwright
Pictured: Sloka Krishnan, 2024–2025 Resident Playwright
Credit: Abigail Pañares
Pictured: Noa Gardner, Playwright of Nan in the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival
Pictured: Aidaa Peerzada, Playwright of Children of the Wise in the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival
Credit: Tyler Core
Pictured: Jason Tseng, Playwright of Fear & Wonder in the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival
Pictured: A Jumping Off Point by Inda Craig-Galván, BAPF2022
Credit: Kayleigh McCollum
Pictured: Arab Spring by Denmo Ibrahim, BAPF2022
Credit: Robbie Sweeny
Pictured: Playwrights Foundation Executive Artistic Director Jessica Bird Beza
Credit: Rachel Esther Tate
Pictured: Ruben Grijalva, 2024–2025 Resident Playwright
Credit: Abigail Pañares
Pictured: Leigh M. Marshall, 2024–2025 Resident Playwright
Credit: Don Nolte
Pictured L to R: Sloka Krishnan, Leigh M. Marshall, Ruben Grijalva, Cat Brooks
Credit: Abigail Pañares
Pictured: Alicia Kester, Playwright of Water Spirits in the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival
Pictured: Nia Akilah Robinson, Playwright of The Great Privation: How to flip ten cents into a dollar in the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival
Credit: Stan Demidoff
Pictured: FLEX by Candrice Jones, BAPF2019
Credit: Vasna Wilson
Pictured: The House of the Negro Insane by Terence Anthony, BAPF2019
Credit: Vasna Wilson
PRESS CONTACT
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PRESS RELEASES
2.15.24 Playwrights Foundation Announces Cohort and Finalists for Resident Playwrights Program
7.27.23 Playwrights Foundation Announces Cohort for 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival
05.09.2023 Playwrights Foundation Reimagines Purpose and Programs to Deepen Support for Playwrights
08.19.2022 Playwrights Foundation Offers Free On-Demand Streaming for Bay Area Playwrights Festival
07.27.2022 Playwrights Foundation Announces Special Events for Bay Area Playwrights Festival
07.13.2022 Playwrights Foundation Announces Artistic Teams for Bay Area Playwrights Festival
05.16.22 Playwrights Foundation Announces Lineup for 45th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival
07.09.21 Playwrights Foundation Announces Updated Lineup for Bay Area Playwrights Festival
05.17.21 Playwrights Foundation Announces Lineup for 44th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival
06.20.20 Playwrights Foundation Announces BAPF2020 Artistic Teams
04.24.20 Playwrights Foundation Releases the Semifinalists and Finalists for BAPF2020
04.06.20 Playwrights Foundation Announces BAPF2020 Lineup
09.25.19 PF Names Jessica Bird Beza New Executive Artistic Director
04.23.18 PF AD Amy Mueller’s Leave Announcement
05.01.18 #BAPF2018 Line-Up Announcement
06.05.18 #BAPF2018 Artistic Teams Announcement
07.17.18 #BAPF2018 Special Events Announcement
FEATURES
08.02.2022 KPIX/CBS: BAPF2022 On-Air Interview
08.01.2022 KRON: BAPF2022 On-Air Interview
7.28.2022 SF Bay Times: LGBTQ Voices Spotlighted in 2022 Bay Area Playwrights Festival
7.28.2022 BroadwayWorld: Special Events Announced For Bay Area Playwrights Festival
7.26.2022 48 Hills: ‘I had a visceral response’: Bay Area Playwrights Festival boosts diverse voices
7.20.2022 American Theatre: Hybrid Lineup Announced for 45th Bay Area Playwrights Fest
07.19.2022 San Francisco Chronicle: Staff Datebook Pick
05.17.2022 BroadwayWorld: New Plays Announced For 2022 Bay Area Playwrights Festival
04.13.2022 BroadwayWorld: Finalists and Semifinalists Announced for Bay Area Playwrights Festival
07.23.2021 SF Weekly: Bay Area Playwrights Festival Stays Online for 2021
07.16.2021 KRON: BAPF2021 Video Interview
07.15.2021 San Francisco Chronicle: Staff Datebook Pick
07.15.2021 BroadwayWorld: Jessica Bird Beza Interview
07.14.2021 48 Hills: Reading is fundamental: 44 years of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival
07.14.2021 Los Altos Town Crier: Local playwright featured in Bay Area Playwrights Festival
07.13.2021 BroadwayWorld: Bay Area Playwrights Fest Announces Artists and Added Events
07.10.2021 BroadwayWorld: Updated Lineup Announced For Bay Area Playwrights Festival
07.08.2021 KALW “Open Air”: 44th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival
07.02.2021 The Mercury News: South Bay playwright takes on pop stardom in ‘Tiger Beat’
05.17.2021 American Theatre: Lineup Announced for 44th Bay Area Playwrights Festival
05.17.2021 BroadwayWorld: Five Bold Plays Unveiled For 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival
07.24.2020 Theater, Unprecedented: Black Playwrights Make Theater in the Digital Space
06.20.20 Playwrights Foundation Announces BAPF2020 Artistic Teams
04.24.20 Playwrights Foundation Releases the Semifinalists and Finalists for BAPF2020
04.06.20 Playwrights Foundation Announces BAPF2020 Lineup
09.25.19 Playwrights Foundation Names Jessica Bird Beza Executive Artistic Director
09.19.19 Playwrights Foundation Presents its Rough Reading Series
06.11.18 Artistic Teams & Schedules Announced for 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival
05.24.18 Playwrights Foundation Announces 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Lineup
05.23.18 The Plays/Playwrights Of 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Fest Announced
07.05.17 San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area Playwright Festival’s 40 Years illuminating new works
06.2017 Theater Dogs: Sad, hopeful elegy in Shotgun’s brownsville song (developed at PF!)
06.2017 SF Arts Monthly: Playwrights Festival Incubates New Works
07.2016 The Bay Area Reporter: Writers on the Rise BAPF39
07.2016 The San Francisco Examiner:Playwrights Tackle Modern Issues in New Works Fest
07.2016 San Francisco Chronicle: What Happens in Vegas Comes to Playwrights
07.2016 SFGate: Bay Area Arts and Entertainment Picks
07.2016 San Francisco Bay View: Wanda’s Picks
02.2016 Daily Cal: Rough Readings Smooths Out Unreleased Theater Productions for Live Audience
07.2015 American Theatre: Alternate New Play Universe by the Bay