Now there's one more reason to look forward to Friday. At 2pm tomorrow the BAPF is hosting an incredible panel of theater makers who use their art to engage the world's problems. The discussion, Making Theatre in a Messed Up World, takes its name from moderator Velina Brown's TBA blog post of the same...
Among the selections for this year's Bay Area Playwrights Festival, I was especially intrigued by Jiehae Park's Hannah and the Dread Gazebo, the story of a Korean-American family trying to understand the meaning behind their grandmother's absurdly flamboyant suicide. Hannah is the recipient of her...
[caption id="attachment_799" align="alignright" width="300"] Playwright Laura Schellhardt[/caption] When reading the plays for this year’s Bay Area Playwrights Festival, The Comparables by Laura Schellhardt resonated with me the most. As a feminist and a student of Sexuality and Gender Studies, this play brought up issues that I find important...
July 1, 2013 Meet the Newbies: PF Intern Spotlight It’s been almost a year since the 35th Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and the new play mavericks at the Playwrights Foundation are hard at work making sure this year’s is just as good. The plays have been picked, creative...
We are two weeks away and counting down to the arrival of our playwrights. They are preparing for 3 weeks of work with the 36thAnnual Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and things are cooking in the offices as we get ready for them. Most people will never know about all...
We’re at it again - It’s Bay Area Playwrights Festival season! While our playwrights are finalizing rehearsal drafts, we’re madly gathering their artistic teams – over 75 creative theater peops—who will descend upon Playwrights Foundation in July to delve into six extraordinary theatrical journeys – fine...
When Playwright's Foundation asked me to teach a ten week course my heart jumped behind my uvula. Ten weeks? Was I legit nutso? I'm just a burgeoning, emerging, wet behind the ears so-and-so, or at least I am in my own imagination. Also, I'm a...
Theatre artists are magic makers. We are sorcerers and scientists who cast spells with words, images, and corporeal expression. Playwrights Foundation is our laboratory. It is a tree on which Bay Area playwrights perch after each returns from individual far-flung journeys, each in her own direction, each...
Teaching at Playwrights Foundation is a fantastic way for me to get in touch with a deep urge to write, my own and that of the writers in my workshops. It's profoundly inspiring to work with the writers who are uncovering the seeds of new...
Arts Administration Fellow Emma Greenham finds that one of life's purest joys can be derived from sharing great tunes with even greater people. An erstwhile student of theatre, Emma is thrilled to be immersed once again in the artistic scene. Since starting her fellowship at Playwrights...