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The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced MORE OF A HEART as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We found compelling the nuanced points of view and strong characters and well-structured scenes. The play dramatizes well how families behave with each other: both brutal and tender. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46

The community of national & local readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival enthusiastically recommends BAD CHINESE DAUGHTER as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We highly enjoyed the supernatural forces, overlap in generations, and the 100 year time span of the play. We were engaged by the various point of views highlighted in the play, the magic, and the incredibly strong dialogue and pacing. We hope this play is widely read, finds dedicated collaborators, and moves swiftly towards production. #BAPF46

The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced A LOVE LETTER TO LOSS as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We appreciated how this piece deals with the climate apocalypse in a very down to earth, realistic manner instead of preaching. We saw the potential in this local California family drama. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46

The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced RX MACHINA as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We found this piece compelling as it reaches for the big, complicated questions of "who has access to survival and in what ways" as it interrogates the predatory nature of capitalism within big pharma. We also appreciated the theatricality expressed both through the writer setting up such clear rules of the world and then breaking them. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46

The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced HURT PEOPLE as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We saw potential central conflict and the discussion it engenders about the broader implications for how society handles these issues of black masculinity. We leaned into the dramatic questions of who is responsible for healing past traumas and the harm that has been caused. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46

The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced SHOW TRIAL as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We saw the potential of this play as the writer was in control of a balance of the various manifestations of comedy, farce, and satire. We appreciated the stylistic choices to reframe a historical event, and the structure, form and pacing are well-handled. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46

The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced THE COOKIE INSTITUTE as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We highly enjoyed this a satire on the American Workplace and on capitalism, and the questions it raises of what will it take to break a capitalistic world. We saw a lot of potential in this non-linear story, full of fun moments as the system churns through workers with no consideration of them. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46

The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced COME TO ME, CLING TO YOU as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We leaned into the way this play explores autonomy, split identity, and family obligations in a very subtle way in this play. We highly enjoyed the character development as the play thematically explored the bonds in a culture focused on devotion towards others and presentation. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46

The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced BLANK SLATE as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We appreciated the complex subject matter and the way the writer's point of view was expressed. We were especially drawn to the voices that depict each character’s subconscious in a poetic way. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46

The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced BOUNTY ON OUR HEADS as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We were grabbed by this highly empowering theatrical celebration, with strong humor, truth, and a confident storytelling ease. We found the variations on a theme compelling, as well as complex and nuanced, and structurally strong. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46