Playwrights Foundation is proud to announce the official lineup for the 38th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival!Innovation and transformation drives this year’s festival, featuring SEVEN local and national playwrights presenting their ambitious, groundbreaking new works this Summer. Take part in shaping today’s cultural landscape: see the development of tomorrow’s great American plays firsthand and meet the brilliant artists who build them.
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| Tearrance Chisholm Hooded, or Being Black for DummiesRhythm, repetition and erudition reveal the commonalities between two wildly different black American teens. Nietzsche and 2pac may not be all that far apart, after all. |
| Kara Lee Corthron Welcome to Fear CityA throw-back to the South Bronx in the ‘70s, as the roots of hiphop and a new black revolution ignite a community and a nation. |
| Christine EvansGalilee In a tiny coastal town along the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, competing economic and environmental forces threaten global catastrophe. |
| Lauren Gunderson The RevolutionistsA comedic feminist quartet about four very real women who lived boldly during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. |
| Sam Lahne#julys A suspenseful farce complete with hacktivists and bumbling FBI agents, in which a troubled teen loses control of his on and offline identities. |
| Brendan Pelsue A child who is living with grave illness…and maybe dying…cannot have a real conversation with his father. But, seemingly out of nowhere, Elmo the Shaman and the oldest woman in Alaska appear to fill in the gap. |
| Geetha Reddy |
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