Our next interview is with playwright Philana Omorotionmwan. We were fortunate enough to be able to ask her some questions about her imaginative and haunting play Before Evening ComesBefore Evening Comes, a powerful dystopian allegory of black life in America: BAPF: What was the inspiration for this play? PO: This play began with a...
Writer’s block is a common ailment that hounds even the most brilliant artists. No matter how much we try to create new material, sometimes it seems like nothing works. As Jack London once said, “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with...
Jade King Carroll (Director, Before Evening Comes) The daughter of the trumpeter and composer Baikida Carroll, as a child accompanied her father to the Public Theater in Manhattan, where he scored Lois Elaine Griffith’s White Sirens at the request of Joseph Papp, and to the...
Preparations for the 2016 Bay Area Playwrights Festival continue with a fresh set of new plays still in development. Our next interview is with playwright Jonathan Spector. We were fortunate enough to be able to ask him some questions about his hilarious (and at times disturbing) play Good, Better,...
Welcome to the 39th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival! It's an exciting time: the plays and artistic teams are confirmed. Auditions have begun. Event planning is underway. We hope you will check our website and blog for updates, latest backstage news and added special events throughout the...
Garret Groenveld is the next up in our Rough Reading Series! His reading of The Hummingbirds is scheduled to be read on May 14th and May 15th. It got started at PF when Garret was a Resident Playwright, and has developed over this past year! For this week's...
The 2016 Season of Rough Readings continues with a fresh set of new plays still in development. The March Rough Readings features Mercury from playwright Steve Yockey. We were fortunate enough to ask him some questions about this delightfully dark comedy: Rachel Finkelstein: Thanks for taking the time to speak...
The 2016 Season of Rough Readings continues with a fresh set of new plays still in development. The Late February Rough Readings features The Most Dangerous Highway in the World from playwright Kevin Artigue. We were fortunate enough to ask him some questions about this work and the...
The 2016 Season of Rough Readings is beginning, and with it a fresh set of new plays still in development. The Early February Rough Readings features Fidelis, a brilliant new work by playwright Christina Gorman. We were able to speak with her about her work and process,...
The Rough Readings Series is wrapping up for the year with Lifted by Dipika Guha! We had the chance to interview Dipika Guha on her process, motivation, and experience as a Resident Playwright at PF. "As a playwright, we have the opportunity to begin the world again when we write plays,...