11 Apr We’re Very Very Close
To being able to announce this year's Festival. Check back very soon...
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07 Apr An Interview With Geetha Reddy
Our In The Rough Reading Series picks back up this week with Geetha Reddy's ME GIVEN YOU. Readings are Monday April 9th at Ceras Hall in Stanford, and Tuesday April 10th at Traveling Jewish Theater in San Francisco. Full details here. This is the second in our...
29 Mar A Big Wonderful Weekend
It's been a pretty crazy fews days here at PF. On Sunday, we had a huge fundraiser "Brunch with a Playwright". Almost three hundred people attended, including 30 playwrights spread out at tables among the masses. It was a really lovely event, on a much larger...
15 Mar Interview with Jason Grote
Jason Grote's play BOX AMERICANA:A WAL-MART FANTASIA will kick off the 2007 In The Rough Reading Series, with a pair of readings Stanford and San Francisco on March 26th and 27th. He will also be teaching a three-day playwrighting intensive at PF. Full details for both...
14 Mar The Home Stretch (Nearly)
I spent most of the day going through the stacks of submissions, reorganizing, shifting, reading through ones we're passing on to make sure we aren't missing any gems. We're entering a really exciting phase in the selection process, as we've now narrowed it down to a...
07 Mar My Favorite New Advice Column
I just discovered a wonderful new forum/blog that The Playwright's Center is running on their website. It's called Litup, and is sort an "Ask a Literary Manager" column where playwrights and others can get direct answers to their questions and discuss new play issues they want to bring...
05 Feb In The Rough Reading Series – All The Details!
Playwrights Foundation joins forces with the Lark Play Development Center (NYC) and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford U to bring eight brand new plays to the stage though our developmental reading series, In The Rough. San Francisco Readings: Traveling Jewish Theater, 470 Florida St., (between 17th...
09 Jan LET THE READING BEGIN!
Friday was our first selection committee meeting. Or actually the second, but the first was more of a meet-and-greet and as no one had read any of the plays yet, there wasn't all that much to talk about. I'm going to try to blog through the...
02 Jan In The Rough Reading Series
We've just got our spring reading series put together. It's a really great group of writers, five of whom are coming out from New York (and three of whom happen to be fanatastic bloggers, if you're into that kind of thing). The schedule is still tentative,...
02 Jan UCSD New Play Contest on the African-American Experience
BALDWIN NEW PLAY FESTIVAL PLAYWRITING COMPETITION! The University of California San Diego’s Theatre and Dance Department seeks from all enrolled undergraduate students submissions of previously unproduced, unpublished scripts highlighting the African-American experience in contemporary or historical terms. Adaptations from books and other forms not allowed.A $1000 honorarium will...