The 2009 Bay Area Playwrights Festival was held July 17-26, 2009. It was a great success. Thank you to everyone who took part. Please stay tuned for information on the 2010 festival.

Click here to submit a play for the 2010 festival.

Bay Area Playwrights Festival

As our cornerstone program, and the heart of the organization, the annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF) brings together a select group of playwrights and professional collaborators to engage in an in-depth development process over three weeks every summer. The work leads to two public staged readings of each play, with a week for rehearsal and rewriting in between the readings.

The festival is our primary means of getting to know playwrights for all of our programs. Because we don't accept open submissions for any other program, we encourage you to submit your unproduced play for BAPF consideration. Besides, we live for new plays and want to read your work! See full guidelines and instructions here.

See BAPF's play history here.