The community of national & local readers for the 44th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival enthusiastically recommends THE KINGDOM OF GHOSTS as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation out of 755 plays. We were deeply moved by the artistic merits in this blending of dramatic poetic styles of lyricism, mirage, allegories, quests, and masks. We were deeply moved by the play's promise as it explores military service, addiction, identity, culture, grief, and parenthood, questioning what it means to love while the world is in crisis. We hope this play is widely read, finds dedicated collaborators, and moves swiftly towards production. #BAPF2021

A play that magically transports us in the journey through grief, love and family. Terrific.

Beautiful, expansive, theatrical, lyrical, and yet very human--these are qualities that I've definitely come to associate with Darcy Parker Bruce's work. The characters that I began to be invested in and care for in "The Place That Made You" see awesome development and journeys in this piece. The visual/aural/sensorily acute landscape (that heliotrope!) is so vivid and unique. The incorporation of music and liminal spaces--physical and emotional--make me feel like this would be an awesome piece to work on as any member of a production team--musician, actor, director, movement coordinator, set, light, sound designer. Super-layered and compelling storytelling.