PRESS ROOM

Sofia Ahmad, Sherrif Shivakumaran, PUNEET, Nemma Adeni, Sindu Singh, and Saqib Mausoof 
in Children of the Wise by Aidaa Peerzada, BAPF2024

Pictured: Sofia Ahmad, Sherrif Shivakumaran, PUNEET,
Nemma Adeni, Sindu Singh, and Saqib Mausoof
in Children of the Wise by Aidaa Peerzada, BAPF 2024

Credit: Reed Flores

Nemma Adeni and Sindu Singh in Children of the Wise

Pictured: Nemma Adeni and Sindu Singh
in Children of the Wise by Aidaa Peerzada, BAPF 204

Credit: Reed Flores

Jessica Bird Beza Headshot

Pictured: Playwrights Foundation Executive Artistic Director Jessica Bird Beza

Credit: Rachel Esther Tate

Cat Brooks Headshot

Pictured: Cat Brooks, 2024–2025 Resident Playwright

Sloka Krishnan Headshot

Pictured: Sloka Krishnan, 2024–2025 Resident Playwright
Credit: Abigail Pañares

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Pictured: Noa Gardner, Playwright of Nan in the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival

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Pictured: Aidaa Peerzada, Playwright of Children of the Wise in the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival

Credit: Tyler Core

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Pictured: Jason Tseng, Playwright of Fear & Wonder in the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival

BAPF Slide

Pictured: A Jumping Off Point by Inda Craig-Galván, BAPF2022

Credit: Kayleigh McCollum

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Pictured: Arab Spring by Denmo Ibrahim, BAPF2022

Credit: Robbie Sweeny

Nan by Noa Gardner

Pictured: Eiko Moon-Yamamoto, Lynie Abadilla,
Alyssa McCullough, ehulani hope kāne, and Judith Nihei
in Nan by Noa Gardner, BAPF 2024

Credit: Reed Flores

Alyssa McCullough and ehulani hope kāne in Nan by Noa Gardner

Pictured: Alyssa McCullough and ehulani hope kāne
in Nan by Noa Gardner

Credit: Reed Flores

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Pictured: Playwrights Foundation Executive Artistic Director Jessica Bird Beza

Credit: Rachel Esther Tate

Ruben Grijalva Headshot

Pictured: Ruben Grijalva, 2024–2025 Resident Playwright
Credit: Abigail Pañares

Leigh M. Marshall Headshot

Pictured: Leigh M. Marshall, 2024–2025 Resident Playwright
Credit: Don Nolte

RPP 2024-25 Cohort

Pictured L to R: Sloka Krishnan, Leigh M. Marshall, Ruben Grijalva, Cat Brooks
Credit: Abigail Pañares

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Pictured: Alicia Kester, Playwright of Water Spirits in the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival

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Pictured: Nia Akilah Robinson, Playwright of The Great Privation: How to flip ten cents into a dollar in the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival

Credit: Stan Demidoff

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Pictured: FLEX by Candrice Jones, BAPF2019

Credit: Vasna Wilson

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Pictured: The House of the Negro Insane by Terence Anthony, BAPF2019

Credit: Vasna Wilson

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PRESS RELEASES

5.1.24 Playwrights Foundation Releases On Demand Readings & Events for 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival

2.15.24 Playwrights Foundation Announces Cohort and Finalists for Resident Playwrights Program

7.27.23 Playwrights Foundation Announces Cohort for 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival

06.01.2023 Playwrights Foundation Announces Finalists/Semifinalists for 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival

05.09.2023 Playwrights Foundation Reimagines Purpose and Programs to Deepen Support for Playwrights

08.19.2022 Playwrights Foundation Offers Free On-Demand Streaming for Bay Area Playwrights Festival

07.27.2022 Playwrights Foundation Announces Special Events for Bay Area Playwrights Festival 

07.13.2022 Playwrights Foundation Announces Artistic Teams for Bay Area Playwrights Festival

05.16.22 Playwrights Foundation Announces Lineup for 45th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival

04.13.22 Playwrights Foundation Announces Finalists/Semifinalists for 45th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival

07.09.21 Playwrights Foundation Announces Updated Lineup for Bay Area Playwrights Festival

06.16.21 Playwrights Foundation Announces Tickets on Sale for 44th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival

05.17.21 Playwrights Foundation Announces Lineup for 44th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival

05.03.21 Playwrights Foundation Announces the Finalists and Semi Finalists for 44th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival

06.20.20 Playwrights Foundation Announces BAPF2020 Artistic Teams

04.24.20 Playwrights Foundation Releases the Semifinalists and Finalists for BAPF2020

04.06.20 Playwrights Foundation Announces BAPF2020 Lineup

09.25.19 PF Names Jessica Bird Beza New Executive Artistic Director

04.23.18 PF AD Amy Mueller’s Leave Announcement

05.01.18 #BAPF2018 Line-Up Announcement

06.05.18 #BAPF2018 Artistic Teams Announcement

07.17.18 #BAPF2018 Special Events Announcement

FEATURES

08.20.2022 BroadwayWorld: Register Now To Stream Five Plays From The 45th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival

08.09.2022 Jewish News of Northern California: Activist-writer Elana Dykewomon dies, just as her first play debuts

08.08.2022 Mercury News: Famed Oakland novelist and lesbian activist Elana Dykewomon dies minutes before start of first play

08.02.2022 KPIX/CBS: BAPF2022 On-Air Interview

08.01.2022 KRON: BAPF2022 On-Air Interview

7.28.2022 SF Bay Times: LGBTQ Voices Spotlighted in 2022 Bay Area Playwrights Festival

7.28.2022 BroadwayWorld: Special Events Announced For Bay Area Playwrights Festival

7.26.2022 48 Hills: ‘I had a visceral response’: Bay Area Playwrights Festival boosts diverse voices

7.26.2022 Bay Area Reporter: Bay Area Playwrights Festival 45: Exposing new plays, on stage and online

7.25.2022 Jewish News of Northern California: ‘How to Let Your Lover Die’: Oakland writer Elana Dykewomon’s first play to premiere at Bay Area Playwrights Festival

7.25.2022 BroadwayWorld Interview: Sharifa Yasmin of CLOSE TO HOME at Bay Area Playwrights Festival Creates Queer and Arab Characters in Their Full Complexity

7.20.2022 American Theatre: Hybrid Lineup Announced for 45th Bay Area Playwrights Fest

07.19.2022 San Francisco Chronicle: Staff Datebook Pick

07.14.2022 BroadwayWorld: Leading Actors/Directors Will Headline 2022 Bay Area Playwrights Festival This Month

05.17.2022 BroadwayWorld: New Plays Announced For 2022 Bay Area Playwrights Festival

04.13.2022 BroadwayWorld: Finalists and Semifinalists Announced for Bay Area Playwrights Festival

07.23.2021 SF Weekly: Bay Area Playwrights Festival Stays Online for 2021

07.21.2021 Daily Californian: UC Berkeley doctoral student Miyoko Conley talks play ‘Human Museum,’ participating in Bay Area Playwrights Festival

07.16.2021 KRON: BAPF2021 Video Interview

07.16.2021 Berkeleyside: Berkeley playwright dreamed up tale of post-human robot museum curators during walks in the Rose Garden

07.15.2021 San Francisco Chronicle: Staff Datebook Pick

07.15.2021 Theatre Bay Area: With Hybrid Model, Bay Area Playwrights Festival Keeps Serving The Needs Of Playwrights

07.15.2021 BroadwayWorld: Jessica Bird Beza Interview

07.14.2021 48 Hills: Reading is fundamental: 44 years of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival

07.14.2021 Metro Silicon Valley: Mountain View native’s ‘Tiger Beat’ explores sexism and representation in pop music

07.14.2021 Los Altos Town Crier: Local playwright featured in Bay Area Playwrights Festival 

07.13.2021 BroadwayWorld: Bay Area Playwrights Fest Announces Artists and Added Events

07.10.2021 BroadwayWorld: Updated Lineup Announced For Bay Area Playwrights Festival

07.08.2021 KALW “Open Air”: 44th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival

07.02.2021 The Mercury News: South Bay playwright takes on pop stardom in ‘Tiger Beat’

06.22.2021 San Francisco Chronicle: Live Events 2021 (Bay Area Playwrights Festival tickets on sale now)

05.17.2021 American Theatre: Lineup Announced for 44th Bay Area Playwrights Festival

05.17.2021 BroadwayWorld: Five Bold Plays Unveiled For 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival

05.04.2021 BroadwayWorld: Finalists And Semi Finalists Revealed For 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival

07.24.2020 Theater, Unprecedented: Black Playwrights Make Theater in the Digital Space

06.20.20 Playwrights Foundation Announces BAPF2020 Artistic Teams

04.24.20 Playwrights Foundation Releases the Semifinalists and Finalists for BAPF2020

04.06.20 Playwrights Foundation Announces BAPF2020 Lineup

09.25.19 Playwrights Foundation Names Jessica Bird Beza Executive Artistic Director

09.19.19 Playwrights Foundation Presents its Rough Reading Series

06.11.18 Artistic Teams & Schedules Announced for 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival

05.24.18 Playwrights Foundation Announces 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Lineup

05.23.18 The Plays/Playwrights Of 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Fest Announced

05.01.18 Broadway World: Bay Area Playwrights Festival Brings RESISTANCE & REVOLUTION at Potrero Stage

07.05.17  San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area Playwright Festival’s 40 Years illuminating new works

06.2017  Theater Dogs: Sad, hopeful elegy in Shotgun’s brownsville song (developed at PF!)

06.2017  SF Arts Monthly: Playwrights Festival Incubates New Works

07.2016 The Bay Area Reporter: Writers on the Rise BAPF39

07.2016 The San Francisco Examiner:Playwrights Tackle Modern Issues in New Works Fest

07.2016 San Francisco Chronicle: What Happens in Vegas Comes to Playwrights

07.2016 SFGate: Bay Area Arts and Entertainment Picks

07.2016 San Francisco Bay View: Wanda’s Picks

02.2016 Daily Cal: Rough Readings Smooths Out Unreleased Theater Productions for Live Audience

07.2015 American Theatre: Alternate New Play Universe by the Bay