BAPF ALUMNI

For 40+ years, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF) has helped emerging playwrights develop groundbreaking new work for the theater. The BAPF is one of the oldest and most prestigious new play festivals in the US, and has continued to grow in popularity as it allows audiences the rare chance to view dynamic playwriting processes firsthand. Check out our illustrious alumni!

YEAR

2022

PLAYWRIGHTS AND PLAYS

Inda Craig-Galván: A Jumping-Off Point
Elana Dykewomon: How To Let Your Lover Die
Denmo Ibrahim: Arab Spring

Iraisa Ann Reilly: Saturday Mourning Cartoons
Sharifa Yasmin: Close to Home

Jaisey Bates: Real Time remix
Miyoko Conley: Human Museum
Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin: Tiger Beat
Sam Hamashima: Supposed Home
Johnny G. Lloyd: The Problem with Magic, Is:

Tyler English-Beckwith: Mingus
Stefani Kuo 郭佳怡: Final Boarding Call
Jordan Ramirez Puckett: To Saints and Stars
Deneen Reynolds-Knott: Babes in Ho-lland
Noelle Viñas: Derecho

Terence Anthony: The House of the Negro Insane
Jeesun Choi: The Seekers
Candrice Jones: FLEX
Tori Keenan-Zelt: How the Baby Died
christopher oscar peña: how to make an American Son
Jonathan Spector: Siesta Key

Jon Bernson: When Lighting the Voids
Dustin Chinn: Colonialism is Terrible, But Pho is Delicious
Kristiana Rae Colón: Suspension
Patricia Cotter: The Daughters
T.D. Mitchell: VRTU-L
Madhuri Shekar: House of Joy

Hilary Bettis: The Queen Of Basel (formerly Magic City)
Clarence Coo: The Birds Of Empathy
Bennett Fisher: Damascus
Lauren Gunderson: The Fatales
Nilan Johnson: Endangered Species
Mona Mansour: We Swim, We Talk, We Go To War

Hansol Jung: Wild Goose Dreams
Walt McGough: Non-Player Character
Philana Omorotionmwan: Before Evening Comes
Andrew Saito: whisper fish
Sarah Sander: Sycamore
Jonathan Spector: Good, Better, Best, Bested

2015

Tearrance Chisholm: Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies
Kara Lee Corthron: Welcome to Fear City
Christine Evans: Galilee
Lauren Gunderson: The Revolutionists
Sam Lahne: #julys
Brendan Pelsue: Read to Me
Geetha Reddy: On a Wonderverse

2014

Phillip Howze: abominable
Don Nguyen: Sound
Elizabeth Hersh: Shelter in Place
Rob Melrose: Ozma of Oz
E. Hunter Spreen: Split the Stick
T.D. Mitchell: Queens for a Year

2013

Erin Bregman: Before & After
Prince Gomolvilas: The Brothers Paranormal
Joan Holden: FSM
Kimber Lee: brownsville song (b-side for tray)
Jiehae Park: Hannah and the Dread Gazebo
Laura Schellhardt: The Comparables

2012

George Brant: Grounded
Christopher Chen: The Hundred Flowers Project
Gordon Dahlquist: Tea Party
Aditi Brennan Kapil: Brahman/i: A One-Hijra Stand-up Comedy Show
Aaron Loeb: Ideation
Lauren Yee: Samsara

2011

Clarence Coo: Beautiful Province (Belle Province)
Dan Dietz: Home Below Zero
Jackie Sibblies Drury: We Are Proud to Present a Presentation …
Lauren Gunderson: Rock Creek: Southern Gothic
Amelia Roper: Hong Kong Dinosaur
Chinaka Hodge: 700th& Int’l
Kate E. Ryan: Science is Close

2010

Cory Hinkle: The Killing of Michael X, A New Film by Celia Wallace
Yussef El Guindi: Three Wolves and a Lamb
Jeanne Drennan: Atlas of Longing
Elizabeth Gjelten: Hunter’s Point
Erin Marie Bregman: Tv Kamila
Sheila Callaghan: Port Out, Starboard Home
JC Lee: Pookie Goes Grenading
Steven Salzman: The Expiration Date

2009

Christopher Chen: Anomienaulis
Julia Jarcho: American Treasure
Robert Henry Johnson: The Othello Papers
Sharyn Rothstein: March
Deborah Stein: Natasha and the Coat

2008

Marcus Gardley: every tongue must confess
Claire Chafee: Whisper From the Book of Etiquette
Jen Silverman: Crane Story
Katori Hall: The Mountaintop
Geetha Reddy: Safe House
Dominic Orlando: Danny Casolaro Died For You

2007

Zakiyyah Alexander: Sweet Maladies
Annie Baker: Body Awareness
Christopher Chen: Into The Numbers
Julie Hubert: Tree
Samuel D. Hunter: I Am Montana

2006

Sheila Callaghan: Lascivious Something
Eugenie Chan: Kitchen Table
Sherry Kramer: When Something Wonderful Ends
Ken Prestininzi: As American As
Enrique Urueta: The Danger of Bleeding Brown

2005

Mick Birnbaum: Bleed Rail
Mike Geither: Stars Fell All Night
Sarah Hammond: Green Girl
Brighde Mullins: Water Stories From the Mojave Desert
Peter Nachtrieb: Lamb and Jelly
Marisela Trevino Orta: Braided Sorrow

2004

Liz Duffy Adams: All The Truth In The World
Abi Basch: Voices Underwater
Garret Jon Groenveld: Missives
Honour Kane: autodelet://beginning dump of physical memory//
Dominic Orlando: Juan Gelion Dances for the Sun

2003

Keith Josef Adkins: Sweet Home
Micky Birnbaum: Big Death and Little Death
Christine Evans: Snow Falling Bird
Brian Thorstensen: Over the Mountain
Ken Weitzman: Spin Moves

2002

Liz Duffy Adams: Dog Act
Catherine Filloux: Eyes of the Heart
Marcus Gardley: like sun fallin’ the mouth
Kristen Greenridge: The Gibson Girl
Gus Schulenburg: Riding the Bull
Mac Wellman: 2 September

2001

Robert Alexander: Hatemachine
Anne Galjour: The Kitchen
Victor Lodato: Motherhouse
Elaine Romero: Secret Things
Venus Opal Reese: Redemption
Kathryn Walat: Rotten State
Amy Wheeler: Wizzer Pizzer

2000

David Adjmi: Stranger Attractors
Debroah Baley Brevoort: The Women of Lockerbrie
Michael Dice Jr.: The Plague of the 20th Century
Robert Henry Johnson: Re-Myth: The Horse Project
Brighde Mullins: Monkey in the Middle
Victor Lodato: The Bread of Winter
Brian Thorstenson: Summerland

1999

David Ford
Lillian Garrett-Groag
Garret Jon Groenveld
Prince Gomolvilas
Robert Hinds
Alexander Woo

1998

Brenda Wong Aoki
Claire Chafee
Ellen Gavin
Karen Hartman
Naomi Izuka
Jake-Ann Jones

1997

Michelle Carter
Jorge Ignacio Continas
Prince Gomolvilas
Richerby Hinds
Nina Siegal
Deke Weaver

1996

Robert Alexander
Holly Hughes
Melanie Marnich
Brighde Mullins
Carlos Murillo
Madeline Olnek

1995

Nilo Cruz
Bonnie Greer
Julie Herbert
Brighde Mullins
Elena Penga
Erin Cressida Wilson

1994

Eugenie Chan
Migdalia Cruz
Nilo Cruz
Annie Dolan
Heather McDonald
Sandra Rogers

1993

Nilo Cruz
Patricia Green
Gary Leon Hill
Robert Henry Johnson
Bradley Marshland
Marlane Meyer
J. Dakota Powell
Shay Youngblood

1992

Claire Chafee
Roy Conboy
David Curran
Erik Ehn
Gary Leon Hill
Carter Lewis
Heather McCutchen-Kannam
Mika Oklopdzic
Sandra Rodgers
Scott Wren
Shay Youngblood

1991

Anna Deavere Smith
Cary Groner
Dyke Garrison
Erin Cressida Wilson
Marina Shron
Richard Haratani
Scott Kessler

1990

Adle Shank
David Curran
Jeannie Barroga
Lester Milton
Millicent Dillion
Phillip Kan Gotanda
Robert Pitman
Scott Wren
Wendy Belden

1989

Cynthia Moore
Ed Bullins
Genny Lim
Jeannie Barroga
John Robinson
Lynne Abels
Merle Kessler
Millicent Dillion
Norah Holmgren
Shan Carroll
Susan Gurrero
Susan Van Allen
Vincent Pinto

1988

Anthony Clarvoe
Janis Chan
John O’Keefe
Julie Herbet
Rick Foster
Robert Pitman
Susan Rivers

1987

Elizabeth Wray
Genny Lim
Jamal
Mary Kessler
Norah Holmgen
Paula Codiga

1986

Alan Bowne
Casey Kurtti
Erin Wilson
Paul Bernstein
Peter Brosius
Terry Garner

1985

Amlin Gray
David Henry-Hwang
Laura Harrington
Martin Epstein
Phillip Kan Gotanda
Rick Shiomi
Romulus Linney
Scott Wren

1984

Bill Talen
John Kaye
John Robinson
Kee Fricke
Mary Kessler
Norah Holmgren
Scott Wren
Steve Carter
OyamO

1983

Bennett Cohen
Chris Hardman
Cindy Lou Johnson
Constance Congdon
Genny Lim
Lee Brady
Mac Wellman
Merle Kessler
Michael Bourne
Norah Holmgren
Robert Nieboer
Sam Shepard
Scott Wren
Tim Schmolder

1982

Alan and Bean Finneran
Chris Hardman
Gilbert Girion
Jeffrey Jones
John O’Keefe
Laura Farabough
Leslie Brody
Maria Irene Fornes
Martin Epstein
Murray Mednick
Phil Bozakowski
Richard Nelson
Rick Foster
Sherry Kramer
Susan Rivers

1981

Chris Hardman
Dana Foley
Darrah Cloud
Elizabeth Wray
Fred Curchack
George Walker
Irene Oppenheim
Laura Farabough
Leon Martell
Murray Mednick
Phil Bozakowski
Scott Wren

1980

Dallas Murphy
Dan Coffey
Des McAnuff
Elizabeth Wray
Irene Oppenheim
Len Jenkin
Martin Epstein
Scott Wren
Susan Rivers
Thomas Babe

1978

Dan Coffey
Len Jenkin
Martin Epstein
Susan Rivers
Thomas Babe

1976

Sam Shepard
Ebbe Roe Smith
Frederick Karl Van Patten
Joel Witkin
Stephen Yaffa
Wayne Pease