Announcing The 33rd Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival! Thirty three years ago, founder Robert Woodruff struck out on his own to create a venue for vanguard playwrights to develop new American plays here in San Francisco. Today, the Playwrights Foundation is proud to continue the tradition and announce The 33rd Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF) will be taking place July 23 to August 1, 2010 at The Thick House located in San Francisco's Potrero Hill District.
That first festival included the emergent writer Sam Shepard, then an up-and-coming local playwright. In each generation since, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival has advanced that auspicious legacy. Please join us for the 2010 BAPF as you may see a future playwriting legend in the making!
2010 Festival Play SelectionsPlaywrights Foundation is proud to announce the plays and playwrights for the 2010 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Join us to Witness, Engage, Converse, Nosh & Network! The Bay Area Playwrights Festival is an inspirational immersion in the creation of new American plays. Ride the wave!
Festival Line-Up
Erin Marie Bregman Read Erin's bio.
Tvá Kamila
Sheila Callaghan Read Sheila's bio.
Port Out, Starboard Home
A co-commission with foolsFURY Theater.
Jeanne Drennan Read Jeanne's bio.
Atlas of Longing
Elizabeth Gjelten Read Elizabeth's bio.
Hunter's Point
Yussef El Guindi Read Yussef's bio.
Three Wolves and a Lamb
Cory Hinkle, Read Cory's bio.
The Killing of Michael X, A New Film by Celia Wallace
BASH! (Bay Area SHorts)
JC Lee
Pookie Goes Grenading
Steven Salzman
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TICKET SALES BEGIN Monday, June 7, 2010
15% EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT THROUGH JULY 1 on full-access VIP passes!!For more information, visit www.playwrightsfoundation.org.
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Festival Playwriting Workshops
20% Early Bird Discount
Registration is filling up fast for our summer session! Don't miss your chance to study with master playwrights Lee Blessing and Marcus Gardley. We only have five slots left for Lee Blessing's Good Note, Odd Note, Better Play? and Marcus Gardley's Playwriting Bake-Off will be limited to just ten students to ensure personal instruction. Students who register and pay in full by June 1 for Lee's class and June 16 for Marcus' class are eligible for our Early Bird Discount, up to $100 off the tuition! We're also sweetening the deal with half price VIP full-access passes to the 2010 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, available to students in either course. Please visit our Institute page for more information and to register.
 Lee Blessing: Good Note, Odd Note, Better Play? The Art of Revisions
July 28 through 31, 2010
Lee Blessing, veteran playwright, returns to the Institute this summer, as part of the 2010 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, to offer a hands on, 4-day workshop on the joys and challenges of revisions! Good Note, Odd Note, Better Play? The Art of Revisions will teach students how to take a piece in a variety of different directions through revisions. Early Bird Discount Offer: 20% off if paid in full by June 1st.
Learn more and register.
 Marcus Gardley: Playwriting Bake-Off
August 3 through 12, 2010
The award winning writer and author of …and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi Marcus Gardley is returning this summer to the New Play Institute for a Bake-Off. During Gardley's Playwriting Bake-Off participants will be offered 5 ingredients to draft a play and Marcus will help them stir it up into a fresh, rich and bold new dish!
Learn more and register.
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News: Alumni and
Resident Playwrights
Congratulations to Alumni and Resident Playwrights on their recent successes!
Alumni! Please send us your updates for our Monthly NewsFlash!
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PF Recommends Seeing…
The Playwrights Foundation supports theater around the Bay Area and loves to recommend productions we find to be outstanding. We hope you'll enjoy these new shows as much as PF staff, contributors and friends of the Foundation have.
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Breaking News: He's in it for THE MONEY!
Raise a virtual glass of goodbye bubbly to Kirk Johnson who is off to the wilds of Leesburg, VA this summer to teach theatre to youth ages 5-18 with The Growing Stage, a non-profit children's theatre organization. He'll be directing Aladdin, Jr. and assistant directing Les Miserables. Kirk has been an invaluable asset to Playwrights Foundation for the past ten months, first as amazing intern, and then as our New Play Institute Coordinator, and an all-around administrative assistant—he's done a little bit of everything, from assisting with the play selection process to acting in our Rough Reading Series. A true man of the theater—we expect to hear great things about Kirk! MERDE!
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