Christophe Honoré's work has been haunting this translator for years, although I didn't know it until I woke up in a panicked sweat in an apartment in Paris last Fall, rushing to turn on the lights, trying to shake off the most intensely frightening dream...
Rough Reading: Ozma of Oz, written and directed by Rob Melrose Ozma of Oz is a trip hop rock musical that centers on Dorothy and her quest to save the royal family of Ev from the evil Nome King, based on the third book from L. Frank Baum’s Oz...
Written by Sophia Naylor, Production Fellow and Production Assistant for Go On Living Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's powerful new work-in-progress Go On Living is centered around the life of poet Liao Yiwu. Yiwu spent four years in prison in China for his poem Massacre, which condemned his government's violent reaction to the Tiananmen...
Tuesdays are my Mondays…and my Saturdays. Such is life when you work 7 days a week at two places. I’m very tired since I was up since 5:30 A.M. yesterday and didn’t get home until a quarter to midnight. The good news is I was at Playwrights...
Now there's one more reason to look forward to Friday. At 2pm tomorrow the BAPF is hosting an incredible panel of theater makers who use their art to engage the world's problems. The discussion, Making Theatre in a Messed Up World, takes its name from moderator Velina Brown's TBA blog post of the same...
Among the selections for this year's Bay Area Playwrights Festival, I was especially intrigued by Jiehae Park's Hannah and the Dread Gazebo, the story of a Korean-American family trying to understand the meaning behind their grandmother's absurdly flamboyant suicide. Hannah is the recipient of her...
[caption id="attachment_799" align="alignright" width="300"] Playwright Laura Schellhardt[/caption] When reading the plays for this year’s Bay Area Playwrights Festival, The Comparables by Laura Schellhardt resonated with me the most. As a feminist and a student of Sexuality and Gender Studies, this play brought up issues that I find important...
July 1, 2013 Meet the Newbies: PF Intern Spotlight It’s been almost a year since the 35th Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and the new play mavericks at the Playwrights Foundation are hard at work making sure this year’s is just as good. The plays have been picked, creative...
Earlier this month I had the extreme honor of standing alongside two artistic directors whom I love- Marissa Wolf of Crowded Fire and Amy Mueller of Playwrights Foundation- as we all three accepted the Glickman Award for best production of a new Bay Area play...
I like to give my self challenges when writing a play, challenges that become writing constraints and help me stay focused and centered on why I am spending three or more years of my life alone and going broke in service to words on paper. The...