2017

18 Jul

Posted at 18:43h in 2017, Announcement, Uncategorized by
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[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg=''] PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION HIRES FIRST MANAGING DIRECTOR Neal Spinler To Join Playwrights Foundation Following 40th Anniversary Bay Area Playwrights Festival [caption id="attachment_3395" align="alignleft" width="293"] Neal Spinler photo: Patrick Shannon[/caption] Playwrights Foundation’s Board of Directors announced the engagement of Neal Spinler as the 40-year old nonprofit arts organization’s...

25 Jun

Posted at 20:14h in 2017, BAPF, Interview, Uncategorized by
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[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg=''] [caption id="attachment_2914" align="alignleft" width="180"] Lauren Gunderson[/caption] Lauren Gunderson brings music and song to the Festival with The Fatales, an epic feminist pop crusade for a knowing justice, via musical defiance. It's feisty, ridiculous, girly, and loud.  We can’t wait. Saturday, July 15 at...

25 Jun

Posted at 19:40h in 2017, BAPF, Interview, Uncategorized by
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[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg=''] [caption id="attachment_2601" align="alignleft" width="180"] Bennett Fisher[/caption] Fresh off winning a Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award and an outstanding new play nomination from the San Diego Critics Circle, Ben Fisher brings his new play Damascus to the Festival.  The play explores extremism as a Somali-American drives...

25 Jun

Posted at 18:37h in 2017, BAPF, Interview, Uncategorized by
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[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg=''] [caption id="attachment_2598" align="alignleft" width="180"] Nilan Johnson[/caption] Nilan Johnson brings his provocative new play  Endangered Species to the 40th Bay Area Playwrights Festival.  Set in a futuristic dystopian future, the play follows a family as the youngest, Little Emma, enlivens her black identity...

20 Jun

Posted at 09:03h in 2017, Alumni News, Producing Partnership, Review, Uncategorized by
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From its development at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival to our Producing Partnership of brownsville song - bside for tray with Shotgun Players, we couldn't be prouder of the well-deserved praise for Kimber Lee's powerful play. Read the review: Sad, hopeful elegy in Shotgun’s brownsville song         Thank...

19 Jun

Posted at 17:54h in 2017, Announcement, BAPF, Uncategorized by
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[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg=''] Playwrights Foundation Announces Artistic Teams and Full Festival Schedule for 40th Anniversary Bay Area Playwrights Festival Desdemona Chiang, Evren Odcikin, Anthony Clarvoe & Becca Wolff among 12 stellar directors and dramaturgs team up with Festival artists. Dan Hiatt, Adrian Roberts, Amin El Gamal, Sarita...

09 Jun

Posted at 17:36h in 2017, Alumni News, Uncategorized by
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[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg='']   A PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION PRODUCING PARTNERSHIP WITH SHOTGUN PLAYERS   PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION BAPF ALUMNA KIMBER LEE Directed by Margo Hall   brownsville song (workshopped with Kimber at the 2013 BAPFestival) is a great example of the success of our process: over 80% of the playwrights we work with go on to...

16 May

Posted at 19:13h in 2017, Announcement, BAPF by
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[av_heading heading='PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION ' tag='h4' style='blockquote classic-quote' size='' subheading_active='subheading_below' subheading_size='18' padding='10' color='' custom_font='' admin_preview_bg=''] Announces the lineup for the 40th Anniversary Bay Area Playwrights Festival [/av_heading] [av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg=''] Six Outstanding Emerging Playwrights Chosen for the 2017 Festival July 13  – 23, 2017 Custom Made Theatre, San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO -...