04 Jul QUIXOTE NUEVO BY OCTAVIO SOLIS – EXTENDED TO JULY 7!
Last week, we went to the Bruns to see Quixote Nuevo - a new play extravaganza (adapted from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes) by our dear friend, alum & board member Octavio Solis!
Alumni News
18 May HOODED Wins Big at #HelenHayes
A hearty congratulations to Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm and the team at DC's Mosaic Theater Company for their Monday night win at the Helen Hayes Awards! The Mosaic production of Chisholm's play Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies was awarded...
12 Apr Congratulations, Lauren Gunderson!
Please join us in congratulating Lauren on her (2nd!) American Theater Critics Association/Steinberg New Play Award for The Book of Will - commissioned, developed, and produced by the Denver Theatre Center. This is Lauren's second ATCA / Steinberg first place award - quite an astonishing accomplishment. [caption id="attachment_4908"...
20 Jun Theater Dogs Review: Alum Kimber Lee’s brownsville song
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...
09 Jun PF Alumna Kimber Lee’s brownsville song
[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...
23 May PF Alum Chris Chen wins the Obie for Caught!
We couldn't be prouder to congratulate PF Resident Playwright and 3-time Festival alum Chris Chen for his Obie award for Caught! In ceremonies May 22, Chris's play was awarded an Obie for playwriting. It was 10 years ago that PF workshopped his play In the...
06 Feb Alumni News
Playwrights Foundation alumni are popping up everywhere! Check out some of what's happening this month: Julie Hébert's play Tree is running now through March 7 at the San Francisco Playhouse - it first debuted at the 2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival! "An unexpected knock at the door turns a family upside-down. In this story...