The 2015 Season of Rough Readings has brought us readings of four remarkable new plays in draft form, and is coming to a close this month with The Revolutionists by playwright Lauren Gunderson. The Revolutionists has also been selected for the 38th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival! You can get a sneak...
The 2015 Season of Rough Readings is now in full swing, granting audiences the rare chance to see up-close and personal readings of new plays in early draft form. We're continuing with King of the Yees, a brilliant new work by playwright Lauren Yee. We were...
The 2015 Season of Rough Readings is now in full swing for the Winter and Spring seasons! Continuing over the next few months, we will be presenting audiences with up-close and personal readings of new plays in early draft form. Read more about Erin Bregman, The...
Playwrights Foundation alumni Marcus Gardley has won the prestigious Glickman Award for his play The House that will not Stand, produced by Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2014. The play takes place in 1836 New Orleans, following a period of French rule that permitted common-law marriages between...
Playwrights Foundation alumni are popping up everywhere! Check out some of what's happening this month: Julie Hébert's play Tree is running now through March 7 at the San Francisco Playhouse - it first debuted at the 2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival! "An unexpected knock at the door turns a family upside-down. In this story...
The 2015 Season of Rough Readings is now in full swing for the Winter and Spring seasons! Continuing over the next few months, we will be presenting audiences with up-close and personal readings of new plays in early draft form. Read more about Mike Lew, Teenage...
The 2015 Season of Rough Readings has arrived, and with it comes five exceptional stories this Winter. Over the next few months, we will be presenting audiences with up-close and personal readings of new plays in early draft form. The January Rough Reading features tiny boyfriend, a...
Our final playwright to be interviewed is the fabulous Rob Melrose, artistic director of The Cutting Ball Theater -- and not really the 'playwright' but rather adaptor, book writer, librettist, as if that's not enough! He makes his writing debut at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival with...
The playwright interviews are just one way for audiences to connect with the plays being read at the festival, giving you an inside scoop into the minds of the playwrights and their ideas about their play. Natasha is back with another interview, this time with...
Next up in our interview series is TD Mitchell. You can catch a reading of her play, Queens for a Year,at this year's festival. Natasha Brown: Thanks for taking the time to talk with me. First question, is your style distinct or does it change depending on the play? TD...