By Marisela Treviño Orta This is the third year that the One Minute Play Festival has come to the San Francisco Bay Area. And I’m sure each year festival producer Dominic D’Andrea returns the process of organizing the festival here becomes easier. But it’s important to remember that easy...
For today's Music Monday, we give you the playlist of the Playwrights Foundation glue: Magan Biggs our wonderful administrative director. Magan has really taken the helm of many of our projects here at Playwrights Foundation and helped us propel them to success this year. From...
By Aimee Suzara Playwright, 3rd Annual One Minute Play Festival There are moments when time stops. Those split-seconds seem to last eternity – marking time like little notches of memory along a measuring tape. In looking back to those moments, all others seem to dissipate – or even,...
by Lauren Gunderson Playwright In preparation for Lauren Gunderson's upcoming PlayMath Class at the PF New Play Institute, we invited her to explain her class and what she loves about teaching it in her own wonderful words. I love leading PlayMath classes because I'm a nerd for theatre. God I...
For today's Music Monday (as master of the PF blog) I, Kevin, decided to do a fun little game that relates somewhat to the upcoming 3rd Annual Ome-Minute Play Festival San Francisco. Yes, that annual festival of 70 or so great plays in a little over...
In preparation for Dominique Morisseau's Sunset Baby Rough Reading today and tomorrow we honor it with it's own music monday, with music that the PF staff has chosen that we feel fits the play. Music is a big part of Sunset Baby. After all, according to Dominique the...
My play, SUNSET BABY, began as an experiment that Jose Rivera gave to me and my fellow writers in the 2011 Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater. He asked us to write a quick and fast play in ten minutes, and gave us all of these...
Recently we were forwarded a special message that was released from Oskar Eustis of The Public Theater in NYC about Hurricane Sandy and we felt it necessary to share with you here. This is the message as we received it in it's entirety. Please read and share...
For today's Music Monday, we look inside Playwrights Foundation to our Managing Producer, Randy Symank. Randy has been with us for a while now and here we give you a small look in. Here's what Randy had to say about work and music at Playwrights...
The reviews for Christopher Chen's The Hundred Flowers Project [co-produced by Crowded Fire and Playwrights Foundation] are just sweeping in. As the show is in it's opening weekend at the Thick House and you're ordering your tickets, check out these great reviews from Chad Jones of Theater Dogs and Robert Hurwitt of the...