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The community of Playwrights Foundation Bay Area literary council readers advanced Work/Shoot as a finalist for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

Our readers responded strongly to the setting and the characters of this piece, which felt very alive and authentic. We leaned into the script’s kinetic, intergenerational drama–a highly exciting read.

We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in its journey towards production.

The community of Playwrights Foundation Bay Area literary council readers advanced Banana Point as a finalist for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

This script spoke deeply and directly to many of our readers, who felt very seen by its exploration of tween girlhood and Jewish identity. We are eager to follow the future life of this project!

We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in its journey towards production.

The Playwrights Foundation Bay Area literary council readers advanced The First Three as a finalist for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

We responded strongly to the thorny, human conflicts at the core of this script. Written from a place of real compassion, this script is a compelling (and deeply Bay Area) story that drew our readers in.

We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in its journey towards production.

The Playwrights Foundation literary council advanced No One Plays Badminton In America as a finalist for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

We responded strongly to the friendship at the core of this script, which is beautifully rendered in Indonesian, English, and in moments of breathtaking physicality. There is a kinetic quality to this script; we are eager to see it realized on stage.

We hope this play finds dedicated collaborators in its journey towards production.

The community of Playwrights Foundation Bay Area literary council readers advanced Last Gold as a finalist for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

Our readers leaned in to the representation of queer identity, and the light, funny and off-beat flavor of the script. We feel that Lee has a highly distinctive voice and we want more of it!

We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in its journey towards production.

The Playwrights Foundation Bay Area literary council readers advanced Caribbean King as a finalist for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

Our readers responded strongly to the daring, audacious nature of this project! We especially leaned in to the queer love present in the script, and to the manifestation of Lear’s storm as a drag hurricane spectacular.

We hope this play is considered for further development and finds dedicated collaborators in its journey towards production.

The community of Playwrights Foundation Bay Area literary council readers advanced TO RED TENDONS as a finalist for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

Our readers leaned in to the electric energy of this script, which explores racial politics–particularly Korean American identity–in a highly nuanced, challenging, and deeply theatrical manner.

We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in its journey towards production.

The Playwrights Foundation literary council readers advanced PIONEER as a finalist for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

This script explores the lives (and afterlives) of a fascinating and sadly underappreciated group of activists. Our readers leaned in to this history, and to the fundamental dramatic questions at the core of this script.

We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in its journey towards production.

The Playwrights Foundation Bay Area literary council readers advanced James & Eddie as a finalist for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

This script is a dreamy, poetic exploration of trauma and intergenerational memory. Our readers especially leaned in to the mother/daughter dynamics in this script, which we found to be vivid and compelling.

We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in its journey towards production.

The Playwrights Foundation literary council readers advanced A Plausible History of Xicotencatl II as a finalist for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

This is a bold, epic dive into Mexica history and contemporary Tejano life. We specifically leaned into the ambitious nature of this script, and its ability to deliver both anachronistic comedy and gut-punch brutality.

We hope this play is considered for further development and finds collaborators in its journey towards production.