[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...
[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...
[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 -...
Insider's Tip: Festival Special Events you shouldn't miss! In addition to the featured events below, we're REALLY looking forward to: Re-envisioning the Theatre Experience conversation and lunch with E. Hunter Spreen, Jon Bernson, and Sango Tajima (7/16 at 2:30PM) Adventurous Season Planning brunch and conversation with Mina Morita and Jon...
whisper fish Lydia Garcia joined Marin Theatre Company as the Literary Manager and Resident Dramaturg in April 2016. Before becoming a member of the MTC team, she was the Resident Dramaturg at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where she dramaturged more than 20 plays in 8 seasons including...
At Georgetown University in 2009, then-Secretary Hillary Clinton was asked by an undergraduate playwright how she viewed the role of artists in helping to promote human rights and amplify policy. Her answer? "I think artists are one of our most effective tools in reaching beyond and...
Our next interview is with playwright Sarah Sander. We caught up with her to ask some questions about her poignant, sexy, and darkly funny play Sycamore: BAPF: Why did the title "Sycamore" resonate with you? SS: For a handful of reasons. Sycamores are commonly found in the Midwest and the...
Our next interview is with playwright Philana Omorotionmwan. We were fortunate enough to be able to ask her some questions about her imaginative and haunting play Before Evening ComesBefore Evening Comes, a powerful dystopian allegory of black life in America: BAPF: What was the inspiration for this play? PO: This play began with a...
Writer’s block is a common ailment that hounds even the most brilliant artists. No matter how much we try to create new material, sometimes it seems like nothing works. As Jack London once said, “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with...
Jade King Carroll (Director, Before Evening Comes) The daughter of the trumpeter and composer Baikida Carroll, as a child accompanied her father to the Public Theater in Manhattan, where he scored Lois Elaine Griffith’s White Sirens at the request of Joseph Papp, and to the...