Announcing BAPF's Literary Team! We sat down with our new Literary Team to ask some questions about their interest in theater and new play development. Read more about our Literary Manager, Heather Helinsky, and our Literary Associate, Kieran Beccia. What excites you about new plays and new...
get tickets to how to make An American Son here When did you write your first play? What was it about & how do you feel about it now? i wrote my first play in college. it was about a guy working out his broken heart by writing a...
An interview with Jonathan Spector When did you write your first play? What was it about & how do you feel about it now? It was written for a playwriting class while I was studying for a year at Trinity College in Dublin. I don't remember what it...
An interview with Tori Keenan-Zelt When did you write your first play? What was it about & how do you feel about it now? My first plays were elaborate Victorian death scenes that I forced my neighbors to stage in my backyard. They were heavily influenced by...
An interview with Candrice Jones When did you write your first play? What was it about & how do you feel about it now? The very first play that “counts” would be Crackbaby. It is a satire that critiques the public school system as well as the...
An interview with Terence Anthony When did you write your first play? What was it about & how do you feel about it now? The first play I remember writing as a teenager was about a young mixed-race kid whose white mother used to run with the...
An interview with Jeesun Choi When did you write your first play? What was it about & how do you feel about it now? I've been writing and been devising & creating theatre for a while, but only decided to put those things together in 2016. Back...
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...
We asked Jihan Crowther about writing for television, the stage, Lions, and the Rough Reading Series. Read on to learn about the playwright behind our first Rough Reading! You write for Man in the High Castle and the upcoming Barry Jenkins adaptation of The Underground Railroad, in addition to writing plays. How does writing for...
The Playwrights Foundation recently named Kathy Li as the new Managing Director. Kathy, a bilingual theater artist from Shanghai, recently graduated from Yale with an MFA in Theater Management. Most recently, she served as the associate managing director for Yale Repertory Theatre and for Yale Cabaret...