The Playwrights Foundation is thrilled to welcome the spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph to a post-show discussion of Kristiana Rae Colón's play suspension. suspension evokes radical lyricism in the face of a near dystopian future. In search of their mysteriously missing sister and guided by a mystic teaching artist, Voltaire...
We are back with the rest of our interview with Patricia Cotter, where we discuss her #BAPF2018 play The Daughters, plays that she keeps coming back to (to read, to review, to share...
E. Hunter Spreen just finished a reading of her new play Care of Trees. First produced in 2011, her play has been in constant development. We caught up with her busy schedule to give you an inside look of what the process of rewriting the...
[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg=''] PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION HIRES FIRST MANAGING DIRECTOR Neal Spinler To Join Playwrights Foundation Following 40th Anniversary Bay Area Playwrights Festival [caption id="attachment_3395" align="alignleft" width="293"] Neal Spinler photo: Patrick Shannon[/caption] Playwrights Foundation’s Board of Directors announced the engagement of Neal Spinler as the 40-year old nonprofit arts organization’s...
[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...
From its development at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival to our Producing Partnership of brownsville song - bside for tray with Shotgun Players, we couldn't be prouder of the well-deserved praise for Kimber Lee's powerful play. Read the review: Sad, hopeful elegy in Shotgun’s brownsville song Thank...
[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg=''] Playwrights Foundation Announces Artistic Teams and Full Festival Schedule for 40th Anniversary Bay Area Playwrights Festival Desdemona Chiang, Evren Odcikin, Anthony Clarvoe & Becca Wolff among 12 stellar directors and dramaturgs team up with Festival artists. Dan Hiatt, Adrian Roberts, Amin El Gamal, Sarita...
[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg=''] A PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION PRODUCING PARTNERSHIP WITH SHOTGUN PLAYERS PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION BAPF ALUMNA KIMBER LEE Directed by Margo Hall brownsville song (workshopped with Kimber at the 2013 BAPFestival) is a great example of the success of our process: over 80% of the playwrights we work with go on to...