19 Jun Interview with Patricia Cotter – Part2
We are back with the rest of our interview with Patricia Cotter, where we discuss her #BAPF2018 play The Daughters, plays that she keeps coming back to (to read, to review, to share...
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14 Jun Interview with #BAPF2018 & Resident Playwright Jon Bernson
Jon Bernson is a part of our residency program and our upcoming Bay Area Playwrights Festival. His play When Lighting The Voids will be be read on Sunday 7/22 at 2pm and Friday 7/27 at 8pm. You can buy tickets here. We invite you to learn more...
12 Jun Interview with #BAPF2018 & PF Resident Playwright Patricia Cotter – Part 1
Emmy Award winning playwright Patricia Cotter joins us at this year's Bay Area Playwrights Festival with her play The Daughters. Come watch Sanfrancisco history be re-lived and re-told from the voices of the lesbians who made it! Readings will take place on July 21st at...
18 May HOODED Wins Big at #HelenHayes
A hearty congratulations to Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm and the team at DC's Mosaic Theater Company for their Monday night win at the Helen Hayes Awards! The Mosaic production of Chisholm's play Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies was awarded...
15 May FUEL by Caridad Svich
This past Monday and Tuesday, we presented the last play in our Rough Readings 2017/18 series: FUEL by Caridad Svich with direction by Evren Odcikin. The readings took place at Roble Hall, Stanford University on May 14 and NOHspace on May 15. Congratulations to Caridad and to everyone...
04 May Theater Professionals Weekend
Are you an Artistic Director, Dramaturg, Literary Manager, Program Manager or are you a freelance artist who loves new work? We invite you or a member of your artistic staff to the #BAPF2018 Theater Professionals Weekend, July 27 – 29! This weekend offers industry professionals an intimate opportunity to...
26 Apr Announcing the #BAPF2018 Season
The cat's out of the bag! We are thrilled to announce our 2018 line-up featuring a widely diverse and artistically challenging group of playwrights - all six are emerging talents. Echoing our turbulent times, their plays explore turning-points in past or future history, moments where...
12 Apr Congratulations, Lauren Gunderson!
Please join us in congratulating Lauren on her (2nd!) American Theater Critics Association/Steinberg New Play Award for The Book of Will - commissioned, developed, and produced by the Denver Theatre Center. This is Lauren's second ATCA / Steinberg first place award - quite an astonishing accomplishment. [caption id="attachment_4908"...
25 Jan Resident Playwright Spotlight: E. Hunter Spreen
E. Hunter Spreen just finished a reading of her new play Care of Trees. First produced in 2011, her play has been in constant development. We caught up with her busy schedule to give you an inside look of what the process of rewriting the...
18 Jul Neal Spinler Named Playwrights Foundation Managing Director
[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg=''] PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION HIRES FIRST MANAGING DIRECTOR Neal Spinler To Join Playwrights Foundation Following 40th Anniversary Bay Area Playwrights Festival [caption id="attachment_3395" align="alignleft" width="293"] Neal Spinler photo: Patrick Shannon[/caption] Playwrights Foundation’s Board of Directors announced the engagement of Neal Spinler as the 40-year old nonprofit arts organization’s...