Playwrights Foundation, the West Coast's premiere launchpad for exceptional plays and playwrights, is presenting the 45th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), featuring five new plays by five exceptional voices. The 2022 festival will be presented in a hybrid format, offering opportunities to experience new plays in-person and via streaming.
Spotlighting the power of human connection, the 2022 BAPF features ten readings of five new works, including HBO and Shondaland screenwriter/playwright Inda Craig-Galván's "A Jumping-Off Point", a taut, biting comedy about a Black female screenwriter facing plagiarism claims from a White male author; award-winning novelist Elana Dykewomon's first play "How to Let Your Lover Die", a poetic and silence-shattering exploration of love, caregiving, and illness in a community of lesbian elders; acclaimed Bay Area performer and playwright Denmo Ibrahim's "An Arab Spring", an intimate drama of luminous personal revolution between siblings; multitalented writer/director/actor Iraisa Ann Reilly's "Saturday Mourning Cartoons", a boldly theatrical bilingual family drama about a millennial healthcare worker and three generations of unbreakable bonds; and award-winning director/playwright Sharifa Yasmin's "Close to Home", a witty deep dive into resilience, belonging, and the yearning for second chances among a trio of strangers from different cultures set in the American South.
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Spotlighting the power of human connection, the 2022 BAPF features ten readings of five new works, including HBO and Shondaland screenwriter/playwright Inda Craig-Galván's "A Jumping-Off Point", a taut, biting comedy about a Black female screenwriter facing plagiarism claims from a White male author; award-winning novelist Elana Dykewomon's first play "How to Let Your Lover Die", a poetic and silence-shattering exploration of love, caregiving, and illness in a community of lesbian elders; acclaimed Bay Area performer and playwright Denmo Ibrahim's "An Arab Spring", an intimate drama of luminous personal revolution between siblings; multitalented writer/director/actor Iraisa Ann Reilly's "Saturday Mourning Cartoons", a boldly theatrical bilingual family drama about a millennial healthcare worker and three generations of unbreakable bonds; and award-winning director/playwright Sharifa Yasmin's "Close to Home", a witty deep dive into resilience, belonging, and the yearning for second chances among a trio of strangers from different cultures set in the American South.
Playwrights Foundation, the West Coast's premiere launchpad for exceptional plays and playwrights, is presenting the 45th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), featuring five new plays by five exceptional voices. The 2022 festival will be presented in a hybrid format, offering opportunities to experience new plays in-person and via streaming.
Spotlighting the power of human connection, the 2022 BAPF features ten readings of five new works, including HBO and Shondaland screenwriter/playwright Inda Craig-Galván's "A Jumping-Off Point", a taut, biting comedy about a Black female screenwriter facing plagiarism claims from a White male author; award-winning novelist Elana Dykewomon's first play "How to Let Your Lover Die", a poetic and silence-shattering exploration of love, caregiving, and illness in a community of lesbian elders; acclaimed Bay Area performer and playwright Denmo Ibrahim's "An Arab Spring", an intimate drama of luminous personal revolution between siblings; multitalented writer/director/actor Iraisa Ann Reilly's "Saturday Mourning Cartoons", a boldly theatrical bilingual family drama about a millennial healthcare worker and three generations of unbreakable bonds; and award-winning director/playwright Sharifa Yasmin's "Close to Home", a witty deep dive into resilience, belonging, and the yearning for second chances among a trio of strangers from different cultures set in the American South.
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Spotlighting the power of human connection, the 2022 BAPF features ten readings of five new works, including HBO and Shondaland screenwriter/playwright Inda Craig-Galván's "A Jumping-Off Point", a taut, biting comedy about a Black female screenwriter facing plagiarism claims from a White male author; award-winning novelist Elana Dykewomon's first play "How to Let Your Lover Die", a poetic and silence-shattering exploration of love, caregiving, and illness in a community of lesbian elders; acclaimed Bay Area performer and playwright Denmo Ibrahim's "An Arab Spring", an intimate drama of luminous personal revolution between siblings; multitalented writer/director/actor Iraisa Ann Reilly's "Saturday Mourning Cartoons", a boldly theatrical bilingual family drama about a millennial healthcare worker and three generations of unbreakable bonds; and award-winning director/playwright Sharifa Yasmin's "Close to Home", a witty deep dive into resilience, belonging, and the yearning for second chances among a trio of strangers from different cultures set in the American South.
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