30 May For Your Continued Enjoyment…the 2012 Des Voix Festival
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24 May The Des Voix Festival on NewPlayTV
The Des Voix Festival opens tomorrow with the Bal Literairre or New Play Nightclub. A special event, all the rage in Europe, done in San Francisco for the first time. Featuring the collaborative work of 6 playwrights - Octavio Solis, Liz Duffy Adams, Marcus Gardley,...
22 May Metamorphose by Marion Aubert…An English Translation
Recently— as part of the development process — the Des Voix team held a Skyped reading of Pride, Pursuit and Decapitation, with the playwright, Marion Aubert listening to actors read her play in English for the very first time. It’s a super challenging script to cold read and the actors were...
03 May How I Got Shorter by Anthony Clarvoe
Playwrights Foundation is on the blogging train, and this week, Anthony Clarvoe has written a little something for us! Anthony wrote a play for the Bay One Acts Festival...
12 Dec Tiny Little Bad Boys: One-Minute Musings by Chris Chen
Some thoughts I had while writing my tiny little bad boys for the SF One-Minute Play Festival… Here is perhaps our most famous short play, in its entirety: Beckett’s Breath: CURTAIN: 1. Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold about five seconds. 2. Faint brief cry and...
21 Nov Jessica Heidt in a Box
By, Caitlyn Tella Today we zone in on Jessica Heidt, new play director extraordinaire, and the woman at the helm of Geetha's Girl in a Box Rough Reading. Jessica built a career on her passion for new and experimental theater, directing and producing countless readings, workshops,...
11 Nov Lauren English in a Box: Digging into the new play process from the actor’s perspective
By Caitlyn Tella, PF Volunteer At PF we develop new plays. So, what does that mean, anyway? What's the difference between nurturing a new work and producing a full-on show? Here, I will look into these questions by interviewing the artists behind our next Rough Reading, Girl in...
15 Jul The Playlist
by Jackie Sibblies Drury Jackie Sibblies Drury is one of the seven playwrights in this year's 34th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival with her play We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between...
08 Jul On Being Fabulous: Theatre and Gay People
by Clarence Coo A fiction writer asked me recently, “What is it with theatre and gay people?” She had noticed a correlation and was curious. She had meant no malice, as one were casually asking, “What is it with summertime and lightning bugs?” or “What is it...
01 Jul I’m A Stranger Here Myself
Australian Amelia Roper on her life as an international playwright and her play, Hong Kong Dinosaur, coming to the Bay Area Playwrights Festival in July. Lately, I noticed, I have been writing plays about houses. Not kitchen sink dramas, necessarily. Naturalism is not my thing. The style and content...