Recommended by Playwrights Foundation

  • Space Bound
    27 Mar. 2024
    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
  • LUMIN
    27 Mar. 2024
    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
  • Lessons
    24 Mar. 2024
    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
  • my eyes are up here honey
    23 Mar. 2024
    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
  • BERLINDIA!
    23 Mar. 2024
    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
  • BASHERT
    22 Mar. 2024
    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
  • Here Comes The Night
    22 Mar. 2024
    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
  • The Return of the Shogun
    21 Mar. 2024
    The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced THE RETURN OF THE SHOGUN as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We were engaged as Saleem grieves his step-dad who encouraged him in martial arts and the complications of reconnecting with his bio dad. We were drawn in by this magical realism story of family repairing relationships and their mental health, as Saleem's parents learn to embrace who he is. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46
  • American Girl
    17 Mar. 2024
    The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced AMERICAN GIRL as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We were deeply moved in this story of cyclical trauma and betrayal by the way characters were handled, especially Nikki's vibrant energy, her dreams, her deep desire to take care of her family even though they ultimately let her down. We were compelled by the realistic depiction of addiction, and the handling of nuanced portrayal of sex work. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators for further productions. #BAPF46
  • The Children's Farm
    12 Mar. 2024
    The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced THE CHILDREN'S FARM as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We highly enjoyed this childhood and adolescent memory play as Sam takes refuge in colorful puppets, as it thematic addresses the struggles of coming out and reconciling different versions of yourself. We were highly engaged by the play's joy, humor, creativity, and buoyant rhythms, as well as brutal honesty as Sam's cousins play detective. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46

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