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The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced BRACKISH as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We were compelled by the dramaturgical use of ghosts, who were uniquely positioned as playful and human, as holders of nostalgia, a father's hope, and the trauma of memories washing over like waves. We leaned into the themes of selling a home, leaving behind a past and embracing the living daughters, and the connection to food. 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 ESCOBAR'S HIPPO as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We appreciated the strong stylistic choices and the adaptation's current political questions, as well as the comic frustration amongst the three central characters. We leaned into the question if there is a meaningful way to retain one's humanity in the face of overwhelming destructive power and the seduction of simply acting as you will. 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 PASSING OVER as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We found the queer love story at the center compelling as they exist within an apocalyptic horror where fascist, bigoted systems continue. We leaned into the play's spirituality and existential questions even if climate change leads to human extinction, as well as the irreverent humor that carries this epic journey of queer love and family. 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 SPACE BOUND as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We highly enjoyed the caring interactions and the tender moments between siblings, as they make the collective decision to sell their family farm. We appreciated the questions the play asks about the privately funded space race and the immense resources used that will never benefit working class characters like these close foster siblings. 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 LUMIN as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We were intigued how the play hits an artery of what society fears right now, written in a form of a true crime form that audiences have a strong appetite for. The play is clear and well-paced as it draws the reporter into the world of Lumin, and has the potential to dig into timely questions. 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 LESSONS as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We were highly engaged by this story of pain, manipulation, abuse, female competition, and a young person's desire to feel the music more than disappointment. We leaned into the play's questions around how far would you sacrifice for something you love and how far would you go to feel? 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 MY EYES ARE UP HERE HONEY as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We were highly engaged by the way these three characters struggled to navigate their relationships outside and inside the virtual world, and the stresses of the virtual world on bodies. We appreciated in this non-linear play the themes of queerness, self, loneliness, corporate manipulation, voyeurism, and multiple realities. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46

Playwrights Foundation congratulates BERLINDIA! as an Honorable Mention for the 45th Bay Area Playwrights Festival in 2022. Our Literary Council advocated strongly for the unique way the playwright creates an elusive, fantastical world that is fun and constantly in motion. We highly enjoyed the play's dramatic questions about being separated from people and places you love, and if those people & places are constantly changing, how do you stay connected to them, and find them again? Is loss change and is change loss? Can they be separated? We encourage producers to consider this work for further collaboration and production. #BAPF45

The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced BASHERT as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We highly enjoyed the unique, strong voice of the writer in balancing the complexity of queerness and rules of Jewish orthodoxy. We were engaged by the pacing of the play and the love and compassion point of view all the characters are written from. 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 HERE COMES THE NIGHT as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We were engaged by the precarious situation and the tensions that arose in this relevant play firmly rooted in LA culture and a strong theatrical portrait of place. We appreciated the central question of when female friends diverge in their life paths, can they be there for each other when it counts? We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46