Julia Jarcho, recently profiled in TBA’s Playwrights Issue and PF Resident Playwright, deftly commands language in her upcoming play for the In The Rough (ITR) Reading Series. The Whole Tree (Electric), inspired by the story of Electra, explores a world like our own, though overshadowed by an apocalyptic...
Katori Hall, essayist, journalist, and multi-award winner, travels to the Bay Area from New York as part of a partnership with the Lark Theatre to attend a reading of her developing play The Mountaintop in PF’s In The Rough Reading Series. The Mountaintop, which explores...
Brian Thorstenson (ITR 2006, BAPF 2003, 2000) unveils his latest work, In the Deep, Not so Deep, in PF’s In The Rough Reading Series. His reading will travel to Stanford University on Monday April 14th and will play at ACT’s Zeum the following day, Tuesday April 15th at 7:00pm. Take advantage of this opportunity to see an intriguing...
Dominic Orlando (BAPF 2004) has an impressive history with theatre. His work has earned him numerous residences, a CORE membership in the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis, and he has been nationally and internationally produced, most recently in Japan. He returns to the New Play Institute this April 19th to teach a short...
James Price’s Collision Course will receive a reading on Tuesday, April 8th as part of PF’s In The Rough Reading Series, and will be presented at the Ashby Stage, hosted by the Shotgun Players. James has spent the last twenty years building an impressive career as a Broadway and off-Broadway actor and...
Playwrights Foundation presents a reading of local playwright, Marisela Treviño Orta’s Woman on Fire at the SF Playhouse this Monday, March 31st. This reading kicks off Playwrights Foundation’s eight-week In The Rough Reading Series. Marisela won the 2006 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize in Drama, and is currently working on a commission for the...
This April, Nakissa Etemad, who has worked with hundreds of playwrights including master playwrights such as Arthur Miller and Tom Stoppard, will teach an exclusive class for Playwrights Foundation, revealing the secrets of theatre’s least understood profession: dramaturgy. In order to give you a sneak peak...
In this week’s Spotlight on the Playwrightfocuses on Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, author of Hunter Gathers, which was developed on the 2005 BAPF, and went on to win the Glickman Award and Steinberg National Theatre Critics Awards for it’s Bay Area world premiere with Killing My Lobster. He...
Tanya Shaffer Re-imagines the Story of Buddha Sid Arthur by Tanya Shaffer Directed by Amy Mueller Monday, February 18th 7pm Exit Theatre 277 Taylor Street San Francisco By Invitation Only (see below) If you are a Theatre Professional or a Playwrights Foundation Donor and would like an invitation to see Sid Arthur, please email us at jonathan (at) playwrightsfoundation (dot) org. To...
Our In The Rough Reading Series picks back up this week with Geetha Reddy's ME GIVEN YOU. Readings are Monday April 9th at Ceras Hall in Stanford, and Tuesday April 10th at Traveling Jewish Theater in San Francisco. Full details here. This is the second in our...