We interview We Swim, We Talk, We Go To War playwright Mona Mansour and PF Artistic Director Amy Mueller about the journey of the play. The play started as an experimental choice for PF's Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2017, pushing the boundaries of theater and has gone on to receive...
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...
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...
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...
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...
[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...
[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...
Before she arrives for our last Rough Reading of the season, we got to chat with playwright ANGELICA CHERI about her play, Berta, Berta. Monday, May 8th 7:30PM – Roble Hall, Stanford University campus Tuesday, May 9th 2:00PM – Custom Made Theatre, San Francisco How did you start writing...