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

This script is a vibrant exploration of South Asian diaspora life. Readers specifically leaned into the usage of Kathak in this play and Brooklyn’s character arc, which we found to be beautifully, insidiously structured.

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 Mercury Makes the Skin Glow as a finalist for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

This script is a satircal and disturbing epic on colorism, community, and diaspora. Readers were struck by the ambitious scope of this play and the cultural specificity of this script’s cutting voice.

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 Snake as a finalist for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

This script is a wild ride, a sort of marriage of cosmic horror and a coming of age story. Readers specifically leaned into the birth of the snake, which was shocking, delightful, and haunting.

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 French Boy Cigarettes as a finalist for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

This script is a tight and beautifully constructed thriller, which explores highly nuanced themes of migration, memory, and parenthood while keeping the audience on a razor’s edge.

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 Death Comes in Threes as a finalist for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

This script is a compelling, fresh exploration of the absurdist tradition, with a specific perspective on what entrapment and isolation means to the Black experience–Audre Lorde meets Beckett.

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 Golden Record Club as a finalist for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

This script is a sensitive, highly nuanced exploration of teenage Asian America in the age of climate catastrophe. And it’s funny, too! Readers leaned into the wild spirit of this script, and the humanity with which its characters have been rendered. We also loved the Alien.

We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation.

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

This script explores heavy and complex themes–the role of Asian Americans in entertainment, and the toll this takes on them–while still being an absolute joy to read. Reviewers specifically leaned into the structure and premise of this play, which we found smart and compelling.

We hope that Rage Play is considered for further development and investigation.

The Playwrights Foundation Bay Area literary council readers advanced Stories in Mother Tongues as a finalist for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

This script delves into the intergenerational dramas of a South Asian family with a mischievous, meta-theatrical sense of humor. Our readers were particularly drawn to Paati; one of the most magnetic characters that we encountered in our review process.

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

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

This script is a daring exploration of vibrant black, queer elders. This script is highly nuanced and deftly swerves through dramatic shifts in style and form.

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

The community of National Committee readers for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced Best Foreign as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We leaned into the daring hinge between the first and second act, which pivots from uncomfortable mockumentary to Sarah Kane-esque extravagance. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in its journey towards production.