The playwright interviews are just one way for audiences to connect with the plays being read at the festival, giving you an inside scoop into the minds of the playwrights and their ideas about their play. Natasha is back with another interview, this time with...
Next up in our interview series is TD Mitchell. You can catch a reading of her play, Queens for a Year,at this year's festival. Natasha Brown: Thanks for taking the time to talk with me. First question, is your style distinct or does it change depending on the play? TD...
In our latest installlment of Interview with a Playwright, I spoke with local Bay Area playwright, E.Hunter Spreen of Split the Stick of this year's Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Check it out! Natasha Brown: Thanks for taking the time to talk with me. First question, is your style distinct...
It's Natasha again! I'm back with our interview series, this week with playwright Don Nguyen whose play Sound explores identity and Deaf culture. Natasha Brown: Thank you for letting me interview you! First question, is your style distinct or does it change depending on the play? Don Nguyen: I think my...
Welcome to the 37th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival! I'm Natasha, one of the interns at this year's festival, and I will be posting a series of interviews with the playwrights in the next few weeks leading up to the festival from our incredibly talented playwrights. The...
An Interview with BAPF 35 Playwright Lauren Yee The 35th Bay Area Playwrights Festival will feature six amazing plays from the unthinkably funny to the unbelievably real. Samsara by Lauren Yee, a Bay Area native, is both. Samsara is a hilarious and heart-wrenching four-hander that collapses 25 years, two continents and one Zygote,...
We're going back-to-back! Our April Rough Readings Series continues with Bekah Brunstetter's House of Home! It will be read on April 23rd at Stanford and April 24th at Thick House in San Francisco. People start writing at different stages of their lives. How did your career as a playwright begin? I've written...
We are kicking off April's Rough Readings Series with Keith Josef Adkins and his play, The Final Days of Negro-Ville! His play will be read on April 16th at Stanford's CERAS Hall, as well as on April 17th at Thick House in San Francisco! Playwrights Foundation recently interviewed Keith about the process...
After a rousing start to our Rough Reading Series in 2012 with Claire Chafee’s powerful Full/Self in January, we look ahead to the next play and playwright in our series. Michael Mitnick’s Spacebar: a Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman. Michael’s play, reading February 27th at Stanford and 28th in SF, is...
Kate E. Ryan’s Science is Close is one of the two plays featured in BASH! (Bay Area SHorts) for this year’s Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Kate is a Bay Area transplant from New York and has worked on numerous plays including an adaptation of Sophocles' Women of Trachis. Science...