Playwrights Foundation is excited about Dominic Orlando's upcoming classes! On April 29th, Dominic is holding his "Everybody's Writing A Musical, Why Shouldn't You?" class! It's your LAST chance to sign up! Only FIVE spots remain!! To get an idea about the musical theater industry, Playwrights Foundation...
We're going back-to-back! Our April Rough Readings Series continues with Bekah Brunstetter's House of Home! It will be read on April 23rd at Stanford and April 24th at Thick House in San Francisco. People start writing at different stages of their lives. How did your career as a playwright begin? I've written...
We are kicking off April's Rough Readings Series with Keith Josef Adkins and his play, The Final Days of Negro-Ville! His play will be read on April 16th at Stanford's CERAS Hall, as well as on April 17th at Thick House in San Francisco! Playwrights Foundation recently interviewed Keith about the process...
After a rousing start to our Rough Reading Series in 2012 with Claire Chafee’s powerful Full/Self in January, we look ahead to the next play and playwright in our series. Michael Mitnick’s Spacebar: a Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman. Michael’s play, reading February 27th at Stanford and 28th in SF, is...
Some thoughts I had while writing my tiny little bad boys for the SF One-Minute Play Festival… Here is perhaps our most famous short play, in its entirety: Beckett’s Breath: CURTAIN: 1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds. 2. Faint brief cry and...
By, Caitlyn Tella Today we zone in on Jessica Heidt, new play director extraordinaire, and the woman at the helm of Geetha's Girl in a Box Rough Reading. Jessica built a career on her passion for new and experimental theater, directing and producing countless readings, workshops,...
By Caitlyn Tella, PF Volunteer At PF we develop new plays. So, what does that mean, anyway? What's the difference between nurturing a new work and producing a full-on show? Here, I will look into these questions by interviewing the artists behind our next Rough Reading, Girl in...
by Thais Harris Really good incentive. That’s what I need when I start thinking that my voice is not clear enough, clever enough, brilliant enough. Good incentive, attention, and inspiration – that is what I got from Bill Cain’s class at the Playwrights Foundation. These things...
by Chinaka Hodge It was sort of like the greatest summer camp, ever. Here are the facts: Last week, in Danville CA, seven playwrights, seven dramaturgs, seven directors and a handful of Playwrights Foundation representatives went on a retreat. The retreat was in preparation for the 34th...
Kate E. Ryan’s Science is Close is one of the two plays featured in BASH! (Bay Area SHorts) for this year’s Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Kate is a Bay Area transplant from New York and has worked on numerous plays including an adaptation of Sophocles' Women of Trachis. Science...