By Patricia Milton As a playwright, I’m very interested in structure. I find that using an explicit structure creates ease in my playwriting. I have used a very conventional two-act play structure for my own full-length plays, although, as an audience member, often I enjoy alternative...
By Marisela Treviño Orta This is the third year that the One Minute Play Festival has come to the San Francisco Bay Area. And I’m sure each year festival producer Dominic D’Andrea returns the process of organizing the festival here becomes easier. But it’s important to remember that easy...
By Aimee Suzara Playwright, 3rd Annual One Minute Play Festival There are moments when time stops. Those split-seconds seem to last eternity – marking time like little notches of memory along a measuring tape. In looking back to those moments, all others seem to dissipate – or even,...
by Lauren Gunderson Playwright In preparation for Lauren Gunderson's upcoming PlayMath Class at the PF New Play Institute, we invited her to explain her class and what she loves about teaching it in her own wonderful words. I love leading PlayMath classes because I'm a nerd for theatre. God I...
My play, SUNSET BABY, began as an experiment that Jose Rivera gave to me and my fellow writers in the 2011 Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater. He asked us to write a quick and fast play in ten minutes, and gave us all of these...
Recently we were forwarded a special message that was released from Oskar Eustis of The Public Theater in NYC about Hurricane Sandy and we felt it necessary to share with you here. This is the message as we received it in it's entirety. Please read and share...
In preparation for the next Rough Reading, which features Reparations by Dominic Orlando, we asked him to speak about his play, it's history, and what it all means. This play began when I was participating in a theatre festival a few years ago (not in California). I was watching...
By Andrew Saito, PF Resident Playwright abroad in Papua New Guinea I write these words through the haze of an anonymous tropical disease. My appetite is reduced, and fatigue sets in early and often. The upside is that my frequent lack of hunger is shaving off the...
At Playwrights Foundation, playwright and teacher Dominic Orlando is a real favorite. He will be featured in our Rough Reading Seriesand he's getting ready to teach a class for our New Play Institute, a Musical Bootcamp for those who want to really learn how to write a musical. Dominic...
by Mike Lew Playwright, Bike America Bike America is a comedy about a cross-country bike trip, staged on stationary bikes. Or maybe even real bikes. Or maybe just handlebars that the actors carry around to look like real bikes. We haven’t really figured that out yet. Anyhow, this bike trip...