Lachlan is a Sydney based theatre and screen writer, dramaturge, teacher and director. His multi-award winning plays have been widely performed in Australia and The UK. Lachlan was writer in Residence at Red Stitch Theatre, Melbourne in 2006 and Griffin Theatre Company Sydney in 2010...
Yes. That's right, it's another Music Monday and we have another playwright playlist for you to listen to while you work and write. Today's playwright: Aaron Loeb. Aaron's plays are really different than anything you'll see. From a play where the audience decides which act to...
Alright! Another Music Monday. Today, we present a selection of musical inspiration from playwright Aditi Kapil. Her play Brahman/i: A One-Hijra Stand-Up Comedy Show, which appeared in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival this past summer is already filled with tons of music. So it seems Music Monday...
While perusing the blogosphere this morning we stumbled upon an interview between Playwright Interviewer Extraordinaire, Adam Szymkowicz and Gordon Dahlquist, whose play Tea Party was a part of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. They talk about all sorts of things, from theater to writing a novel, writing heroes to childhood. Here is a little...
It's another Music Monday, and that means it's another Playwright Playlist. This week we are happy to present the musical inspiration from George Brant, playwright of Grounded. For any of you who who were able to see Grounded at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, might be able to...
It's Monday. Oh Music Monday. Thankfully that means it's time for some good new music from one of our Playwrights. This week, Lauren Yee, playwright of Samsara and San Francisco Native, shares with us ten songs that help her push through the writing process and into the final pages...
Playwrights: What are you listening to? We posed this question to those in our Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and here is what Gordon Dahlquist has to share with us. "It doesn't have any specific connection to Tea Party, but I always listen to the same things over and...
Week 1 was great, an awesome slew of the best new plays on the underground that will surely impress their way to the mainstream of the new play world. Riding the wave of inspiration form all of the plays that came crashing over us, we...
by Aaron Loeb Playwright, Ideation This is an absolutely true story. At the Playwrights Foundation BAPF retreat with my director, dramaturg and designer we decide to go for a walk and discuss the play. The play is a twisty little set of passages. The management consultants it centers around have just gotten...
by Aditi Kapil Playwright, Brahman/i: A One Hijra Stand-Up Comedy Show It's Wednesday morning in San Francisco. Excited to meet all the artists, sink into focus, write a lot. Tomorrow afternoon it’ll be my turn to read my entire play, beginning to end, for the group [at BAPF retreat]. That’ll teach me...