This seasons final reading is upon us. The author of our last piece? One Minnesota-born Massachusetts-based playwright, Kimberly Burke, known for her deeply political plays. We had a chance to get in some interview questions with Ms. Burke about her life, and her play Miss Tibet. PF: According...
Where do you most often find inspiration? In everyday actions -- the small rituals we do over and over again, like making a cup of tea, buying groceries at the same produce store, having the same conversation with the same person. Seeing what happens when...
1) Where do you most often find inspiration? I'm not sure I understand the question. In his gorgeous unfinished novel, Tulip, Dashiell Hammet has the title character, an ex-con, pestering his old friend, a writer, to take up his life story. "It's a great story--I'll let you...
1) Where do you most often find inspiration? The inspiration for most of my major projects has come from international travel. For me, the richness of entering into another culture is fascinating because it shows me alternatives to even the most basic ways of viewing the...
1) Where do you most often find inspiration? From cardiovascular exercise, from actors, from news, from pop culture, from sleepless nights, from music, from non fiction reading, from public transit, from past experiences, and often in the time between when I get in bed and when...
Where do you most often find inspiration? Thinking about death. What one tip can you offer aspiring playwrights? Go deep,deep,deep inside yourself. It's fun! How did you get your start in playwriting? Where and when was this seed planted? I initially entered college as a music composition...
Where do you most often find inspiration? A: I take inspiration from my whole full life: the odd shape of someone's head on the bus, an emotional article in a trashy magazine, notes in public bathrooms or something one of my large extended family says in...
Hi PF Fans, We’re going to showcase our Resident Playwrights every Thursday. Today’s subject: Erin Bregman. Question: Where do you most often find inspiration? Erin: Everywhere! That is part of the problem. Living in San Francisco it's impossible to not encounter pieces of stories everywhere you turn. Sometimes it's a...
PF: Can you talk a little about the inspiration for Our Peculiar Institution and your process in writing it? Lauren Yee: I wanted to write a play about minstrelsy, and I spent a month at the American Antiquarian Society in Massachusetts actually researching source material from...
BAPF Playwright Martha Jane Kaufman was interviewed by Sonia Fernandez, PF Literary and Administrative Director. Sonia Fernandez: How did you get started on your BASH! Play, House and Junction? Martha Jane Kaufman: The election of Barack Obama led to a lot of conversations about how we were moving into...