Bay Area Playwrights Festival attracts many established theatre professionals. Attendance this year includes :
Paul Ackerman, Production Manager, Lone Tree Arts Center
Karen Altree Piemme, Artistic Director, Red Ladder Theater Company & Freelance Director, San Jose, CA
Sowmya Ashokkumar, Playwright, MFA in Dramatic Writing, Carnegie Mellon University
AJ Baker, Executive Artistic Director, 3Girls Theatre Company
Jon Bernson, Playwright, San Francisco, CA
Jessica Bird Beza, Freelance Director, San Francisco, CA
Erin Bregman, Playwright, San Francisco, CA
James Goode, Freelance Sound Designer/Composer
Lary Bray, Donor Relations and Membership Manager, A.C.T
Eugenie Chan, Playwright, San Francisco, CA
Amy Crumpacker, Artistic team leader, 3rd Street Playhouse
Kimberly Daniels, Company Administrator, Ubuntu theater project
LeAnn Dowd, Artistic Associate, California Shakespeare Theater, Orinda, CA
Kim Euell, Boston’s Company One Theater; St. Paul’s Penumbra Theater; Playwrights Center, Minneapolis
James Fleming, Director, New Colony Theatre and Redtwist Theatre
Linda Maria Giròn, Playwright, Shotgun Players M.A.D. Fellowmerritt
Susan Jackson, Playwright/Producer, Southern Railroad Theatre & 3Girls Theatre Company, San Francisco, CA
Josh Glenn-Kayden, Artistic Associate & Casting Director, Company One
Zach Kopciak, Associate Artistic Director, 3Girls Theatre Company
Michaela Goldhaber, Playwright, director, and dramaturg, Wry Crips disabled women’s Theater
Gabrielle Greenfield, Playwright, Sausalito, CA
Garret Groenveld, Independent Playwright, San Francisco, CA
Roselyn Hallett, Actor, AEA, San Francisco, CA
Samara Harris, Theatrical and Film Literary Agent, Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency
Scarlett Hepworth, Independent actor/voice teacher, El Cerrito, CA
David Johann Kim, Playwright/ Director/Actor, EST/LA Playwrights Unit & Chalk Rep Writers Group, Los Angeles, CA
John Levine, Playwright, Mill Valley Playwright’s Lab
Leigh M. Marshall, Playwright, Iowa Playwrights Workshop
Pam MacKinnon, Artistic Director, A.C.T., San Francisco, CA
Robert Menna, Lab Member, Antaeus Theatre Playwrights Labwein
Erin Merritt, Director, Bay Area Playwright’s Festival Literary Committe
Isutyee Montez, Director/Playwright, Oakland, CA
Rose Oser, Associate Artistic Director, Z Space
Lana Palmer, Director, Director, Bread & Butter Theatre
Cynthia Parsons McDaniel, Playwright, Parsons Productions, New York, NY
Geeta Rai, Managing Director, EnActe Arts Inc, Houston, TX
Jordan Ramirez Puckett, Playwright, San Francisco, CA
Linda Ravenswood, Poet and Performance Artist, The Los Angeles Press
Geetha Reddy, Playwright, Burlingame, CA
Joey Reyes, Producing Assistant, The Sol Project
Tylie Scheider, Playwright, New York, NY
Brittany Searles, Literary Manager, San Francisco Playhouse
Betty Shamieh, Playwright, San Francisco, CA
Cleavon Smith, Playwright, TheatreFirst, Berkeley, CA
Graham Smith, Freelance Director, San Francisco, CA
Elizabeth Spreen, Playwright, Los Altos Hills, CA
Stephen Stewart, Playwright, Sugar Land, TX
Cece Tio, Producer, Moving Arts, San Francisco, CA
Ryan Tuozzolo, Writer, Daily California, Berkeley, CA
Tracy Ward, Director, San Anselmo, CA
Miriam Weiner, Literary Associate, Vineyard Theatre, New York, NY
Christine Young, Professor and Director, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Kathryn Zukaitis, Literary Associate, South Coast Repertory, Santa Ana, CA