10 Ways Writers Changed Me This Year by Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin (they/she) BAPF45 Play Selection Advisor Hard as I try to shift my mindset from scarcity to abundance, the going can get rough around this time of year for playwrights. While rejections flood my inbox like El Niño...
Creating Community across the World: The BAPF Virtual Retreat Written by Lucas Nash [caption id="attachment_8586" align="alignleft" width="300"] We discussed jazz music and enjoyed songs by composer and bassist Charles Mingus.[/caption] The BAPF retreat. It’s an essential part of our development process. For three days, our staff and artistic...
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...
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...
Mister WA has been collaborating with BAVC and SF Commons to give viewers access to a wide variety of perspectives, talents and information, as he explores the artists who constantly brighten and reinvent San Francisco culture. On July 22, he invited our very own Artistic Director Amy Mueller and Resident Playwright Patricia Cotter to talk...
Here's a short video from our March Rough Reading of The Daughters, by PF #residentplaywright Patricia Cotter. You have the opportunity to witness the second phase of development of Patricia's play at our 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. The staged readings will take place on July...
We are excited to have playwright T.D. Mitchell present her new work at this year's Bay Area Playwrights Festival! Join us for the readings of VRTU-L on Friday 7/20 at 8pm and Sunday 7/29 at 2pm. We had the pleasure to sit down with T.D. Mitchell and talk about her...