We are delighted to have Justin Chinn on our team of playwrights for #BAPF2018. His play Colonialism Is Terrible, But Pho Is Delicious grapples with issues of cultural appropriation and will be serving up plenty of laughs and food for thought on Sunday 7/22 at 6pm and Saturday 7/28...
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...
Jon Bernson is a part of our residency program and our upcoming Bay Area Playwrights Festival. His play When Lighting The Voids will be be read on Sunday 7/22 at 2pm and Friday 7/27 at 8pm. You can buy tickets here. We invite you to learn more...
Emmy Award winning playwright Patricia Cotter joins us at this year's Bay Area Playwrights Festival with her play The Daughters. Come watch Sanfrancisco history be re-lived and re-told from the voices of the lesbians who made it! Readings will take place on July 21st at...
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=''] [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...
[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...