The Playwrights Foundation recently named Kathy Li as the new Managing Director. Kathy, a bilingual theater artist from Shanghai, recently graduated from Yale with an MFA in Theater Management. Most recently, she served as the associate managing director for Yale Repertory Theatre and for Yale Cabaret...
PANEL CONVERSATION FOLLOWING THE STAGED READING OF T.D. MITCHELL’S PLAY VRTU-L Moderator: Nathan Brown Guests: Dr. Elizabeth McMahon, PhD, T.D. Mitchell, Alex Mallory What is Virtual Reality? How does it work? How is it being used in the arts, in entertainment, and in the wider culture? Local tech exec Nathan Brown and...
We are kicking off our 2018 Theater Professionals Weekend with this exceptional, award-winning documentary about Maria Irene Fornes, in the presence of Director Michelle Memran. The FREE screening starts at 4pm on JULY 27 at our festival venue, Potrero Stage, and will be followed by the Theater...
The Playwrights Foundation is thrilled to welcome the spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph to a post-show discussion of Kristiana Rae Colón's play suspension. suspension evokes radical lyricism in the face of a near dystopian future. In search of their mysteriously missing sister and guided by a mystic teaching artist, Voltaire...
Our staff, fellows and interns went to see Good, Better, Best, Bested at Custom Made Theater, written by our resident playwright Jonathan Spector and directed by #BAPF2018's casting director Lauren English! Now playing at Custom Made Theater through July 14th, Good, Better, Best, Bested is a result of one of our producing...
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...
Are you an Artistic Director, Dramaturg, Literary Manager, Program Manager or are you a freelance artist who loves new work? We invite you or a member of your artistic staff to the #BAPF2018 Theater Professionals Weekend, July 27 – 29! This weekend offers industry professionals an intimate opportunity to...
The cat's out of the bag! We are thrilled to announce our 2018 line-up featuring a widely diverse and artistically challenging group of playwrights - all six are emerging talents. Echoing our turbulent times, their plays explore turning-points in past or future history, moments where...
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"...
[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...