BAPF Behind the Scenes: Welcome & Pecha Kucha Written by Lucas Nash [caption id="attachment_8476" align="alignleft" width="360"] Katie Gubler presents her Pecha Kucha to the cohort[/caption] Welcome to the blog for Playwrights Foundation’s 2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival! I’m Lucas Nash, the Festival documentarian fellow, and I’m excited to...
An Interview with Jordan Ramirez Puckett Get your tickets to To Saints and Stars, and all the BAPF2020 plays, here. What does the day-to-day process of playwriting look like for you personally? I crave structure so most of my mornings start with journaling, then I exercise, and then...
The Challenge of Cultivating a Garden of New Plays by Heather Helinsky, Playwrights Foundation Literary Manager Prior to becoming Literary Manager for Playwrights Foundation this season, one of my great joys at the Kennedy Center was the ability to connect emerging writers with their first job or...
A chat with The Pitch playwright Aaron Loeb On Monday and Tuesday next week (March 2 & 3) we have a chance to hear Aaron Loeb's new work The Pitch as it brings psychological suspense to the world of Silicon Valley. Want to hear The Pitch? Reserve your Pay...
A chat with Side Effects playwright Star Finch On Monday and Tuesday next week (February 10 & 11) we have a chance to hear Star Finch's newest piece Side Effects as it travels back to 2009 to interrogate the present as it relates to the American...
A chat with Emmylu playwright Boni B. Alvarez On Monday and Tuesday next week (January 13 & 14) we have a chance to hear Boni B. Alvarez's newest in-development piece Emmylu as it explores Trumpism among immigrants of color. Want to hear Emmylu? Reserve your Pay What You Can...
Get to know Truest playwright Megan Cohen Megan Cohen's innovative, offbeat, and captivating thoughts radiate from every play she writes. We wanted to get to know her mind and hear more about her writing and why she's writing. Want to hear her newest play in development? Reserve your Pay What...
Announcing BAPF's Literary Team! We sat down with our new Literary Team to ask some questions about their interest in theater and new play development. Read more about our Literary Manager, Heather Helinsky, and our Literary Associate, Kieran Beccia. What excites you about new plays and new...
When did you write your first play? What was it about & how do you feel about it now? Oh boy. I wrote my first play at 12 or 13 years old about the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, and if memory serves I had to present...
get tickets to how to make An American Son here When did you write your first play? What was it about & how do you feel about it now? i wrote my first play in college. it was about a guy working out his broken heart by writing a...