Earlier this month I had the extreme honor of standing alongside two artistic directors whom I love- Marissa Wolf of Crowded Fire and Amy Mueller of Playwrights Foundation- as we all three accepted the Glickman Award for best production of a new Bay Area play...
Assistant to the Artistic Director Fellow Katie Forbes shared some of her favorite artists and tracks with us for Music Monday. Most recently Katie has been helping out at PF with the website, Indiegogo Studio Campaign, casting for Rough Readings, and has served as a production...
Happy Monday! The cast of The World of Extreme Happiness has put together a rockin playlist inspired by their work on the play for your listening pleasure. Take a gander and enjoy! ...
I like to give my self challenges when writing a play, challenges that become writing constraints and help me stay focused and centered on why I am spending three or more years of my life alone and going broke in service to words on paper. The...
To kick off this week, the fabulous director and cast of Jonathan Spector's In From the Cold has graciously put together a playlist for tonight's Rough Reading at Costume Shop at ACT @ 7p. Directed by Josh Costello Cast: Jim Charles Dean Anthony Nemirovsky Craig Marker Howard Swain Elena Wright ...
It’s a bit disorienting to sit down to write this blog post. I was on staff at Playwrights Foundation for several years and produced the Rough Reading Series as part of my job. At the time I wasn’t writing plays, and didn’t have any particular...
Meet Beth Bauler, our fearless intern for Fall/Winter. She just received her Degree in Photography from SF State and will be moving on from the Playwrights Foundation to new and exciting adventures. All of us on staff wish her well on her new endeavors. She...
Happy Monday, internet! Photo Credit: Nikkiart.com We here at the Playwrights Foundation are excited to start our Rough Reading Winter Series with a fabulous batch of plays. We wanted to kick off Music Mondays 2013 with a playlist for Chiori Miyagawa's This Lingering Life, the first play in our series...
For today's Music Monday we return to a real lybusy playwright here in the Bay Area: Christopher Chen. Some of you may remember that when Music Monday was in its infancy during the 2012 BAPF, Chris compiled a playlist for The Hundred Flowers Project for us [Chris'...
By Patricia Milton As a playwright, I’m very interested in structure. I find that using an explicit structure creates ease in my playwriting. I have used a very conventional two-act play structure for my own full-length plays, although, as an audience member, often I enjoy alternative...