by Anthony Clarvoe Playwright and NPI Instructor [caption id="attachment_934" align="alignright" width="200"] CELLO by Anthony Clarvoe forBay Area One Acts Festival.Produced by Playwrights Foundation - Pictured (l-r) El Beh, Maria Giere Marquis, Cooper Carlson.[/caption] I confess it: I am inordinately fond of the writers in my classes. They bring so much...
While perusing the blogosphere this morning we stumbled upon an interview between Playwright Interviewer Extraordinaire, Adam Szymkowicz and Gordon Dahlquist, whose play Tea Party was a part of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. They talk about all sorts of things, from theater to writing a novel, writing heroes to childhood. Here is a little...
It's Monday. Oh Music Monday. Thankfully that means it's time for some good new music from one of our Playwrights. This week, Lauren Yee, playwright of Samsara and San Francisco Native, shares with us ten songs that help her push through the writing process and into the final pages...
by Aaron Loeb Playwright, Ideation This is an absolutely true story. At the Playwrights Foundation BAPF retreat with my director, dramaturg and designer we decide to go for a walk and discuss the play. The play is a twisty little set of passages. The management consultants it centers around have just gotten...
by Aditi Kapil Playwright, Brahman/i: A One Hijra Stand-Up Comedy Show It's Wednesday morning in San Francisco. Excited to meet all the artists, sink into focus, write a lot. Tomorrow afternoon it’ll be my turn to read my entire play, beginning to end, for the group [at BAPF retreat]. That’ll teach me...
By Jonathan Spector Director, Tea Party I have been supervising the play selection for BAPF, on and off (under various titles), for the last six years. My favorite moment in the process is invariably the first time each year that I read a play I fall in love with. Usually this...
By Desdemona Chiang Director, The Hundred Flowers Project When Marissa Wolf called a month ago to offer me "The Hundred Flowers Project," I was ecstatic. Chris Chen is a dear friend, and I am very fortunate to have been around the social fringe of his process and thinking on this script for...
By Christopher Chen Playwright, The Hundred Flowers Project The central story of The Hundred Flowers Project involves a group of Asian actors making a play about Mao Tse-Tung called The Hundred Flowers Project, and, in a surrealistic twist, the play they are working on morphs into a play about the making...
by Gordon Dahlquist Playwright, Tea Party 2012 Bay Area Playwrights Festival My play Tea Party is a pretty straight-forward story of insurrection, civil unrest, sectarian violence, divided government, and foreign interference – which just happens to be set in Colorado. I like plays that ask questions more than plays that provide...
By Kevin Scofield Playwrights Foundation Social Media Associate Take a trip with me, will you, with Doc Brown in the DeLorean to the Summer of 2011. The Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Of the seven plays on the festival, one of them had longest title of a play I’ve ever seen...