By Jonathan Spector Director, Tea Party I have been supervising the play selection for BAPF, on and off (under various titles), for the last six years. My favorite moment in the process is invariably the first time each year that I read a play I fall in love with. Usually this...
By Desdemona Chiang Director, The Hundred Flowers Project When Marissa Wolf called a month ago to offer me "The Hundred Flowers Project," I was ecstatic. Chris Chen is a dear friend, and I am very fortunate to have been around the social fringe of his process and thinking on this script for...
By Christopher Chen Playwright, The Hundred Flowers Project The central story of The Hundred Flowers Project involves a group of Asian actors making a play about Mao Tse-Tung called The Hundred Flowers Project, and, in a surrealistic twist, the play they are working on morphs into a play about the making...
An Interview with BAPF 35 Playwright Lauren Yee The 35th Bay Area Playwrights Festival will feature six amazing plays from the unthinkably funny to the unbelievably real. Samsara by Lauren Yee, a Bay Area native, is both. Samsara is a hilarious and heart-wrenching four-hander that collapses 25 years, two continents and one Zygote,...
by Gordon Dahlquist Playwright, Tea Party 2012 Bay Area Playwrights Festival My play Tea Party is a pretty straight-forward story of insurrection, civil unrest, sectarian violence, divided government, and foreign interference – which just happens to be set in Colorado. I like plays that ask questions more than plays that provide...
By Kevin Scofield Playwrights Foundation Social Media Associate Take a trip with me, will you, with Doc Brown in the DeLorean to the Summer of 2011. The Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Of the seven plays on the festival, one of them had longest title of a play I’ve ever seen...
The 2012 Des Voix Festival...
The Des Voix Festival opens tomorrow with the Bal Literairre or New Play Nightclub. A special event, all the rage in Europe, done in San Francisco for the first time. Featuring the collaborative work of 6 playwrights - Octavio Solis, Liz Duffy Adams, Marcus Gardley,...
Recently— as part of the development process — the Des Voix team held a Skyped reading of Pride, Pursuit and Decapitation, with the playwright, Marion Aubert listening to actors read her play in English for the very first time. It’s a super challenging script to cold read and the actors were...
Playwrights Foundation is on the blogging train, and this week, Anthony Clarvoe has written a little something for us! Anthony wrote a play for the Bay One Acts Festival...