[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg=''] [caption id="attachment_2914" align="alignleft" width="180"] Lauren Gunderson[/caption] Lauren Gunderson brings music and song to the Festival with The Fatales, an epic feminist pop crusade for a knowing justice, via musical defiance. It's feisty, ridiculous, girly, and loud. We can’t wait. Saturday, July 15 at...
[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg=''] [caption id="attachment_2601" align="alignleft" width="180"] Bennett Fisher[/caption] Fresh off winning a Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award and an outstanding new play nomination from the San Diego Critics Circle, Ben Fisher brings his new play Damascus to the Festival. The play explores extremism as a Somali-American drives...
[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg=''] [caption id="attachment_2598" align="alignleft" width="180"] Nilan Johnson[/caption] Nilan Johnson brings his provocative new play Endangered Species to the 40th Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Set in a futuristic dystopian future, the play follows a family as the youngest, Little Emma, enlivens her black identity...
From its development at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival to our Producing Partnership of brownsville song - bside for tray with Shotgun Players, we couldn't be prouder of the well-deserved praise for Kimber Lee's powerful play. Read the review: Sad, hopeful elegy in Shotgun’s brownsville song Thank...
[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg=''] Playwrights Foundation Announces Artistic Teams and Full Festival Schedule for 40th Anniversary Bay Area Playwrights Festival Desdemona Chiang, Evren Odcikin, Anthony Clarvoe & Becca Wolff among 12 stellar directors and dramaturgs team up with Festival artists. Dan Hiatt, Adrian Roberts, Amin El Gamal, Sarita...
[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg=''] A PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION PRODUCING PARTNERSHIP WITH SHOTGUN PLAYERS PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION BAPF ALUMNA KIMBER LEE Directed by Margo Hall brownsville song (workshopped with Kimber at the 2013 BAPFestival) is a great example of the success of our process: over 80% of the playwrights we work with go on to...
We couldn't be prouder to congratulate PF Resident Playwright and 3-time Festival alum Chris Chen for his Obie award for Caught! In ceremonies May 22, Chris's play was awarded an Obie for playwriting. It was 10 years ago that PF workshopped his play In the...
[av_heading heading='PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION ' tag='h4' style='blockquote classic-quote' size='' subheading_active='subheading_below' subheading_size='18' padding='10' color='' custom_font='' admin_preview_bg=''] Announces the lineup for the 40th Anniversary Bay Area Playwrights Festival [/av_heading] [av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg=''] Six Outstanding Emerging Playwrights Chosen for the 2017 Festival July 13 – 23, 2017 Custom Made Theatre, San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO -...
Before she arrives for our last Rough Reading of the season, we got to chat with playwright ANGELICA CHERI about her play, Berta, Berta. Monday, May 8th 7:30PM – Roble Hall, Stanford University campus Tuesday, May 9th 2:00PM – Custom Made Theatre, San Francisco How did you start writing...
We're stoked about next week's reading of VRTU-L by TD Mitchell. We caught up with TD before she flies out for these readings to talk about this incredibly timely and harrowing play. It’s the sixth in our 2016-17 Rough Readings Series, which is always PAY WHAT YOU...