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The community of national and local readers for the 45th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival in 2022 enthusiastically recommends THE MEANING OF ANTS IN MY KITCHEN as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We were deeply moved by the play’s explorations of the price of patriotism, while playing with time, as the writer mirrors form and content. We were compelled by this play’s surrealistic style and universality in metaphor. We hope this play is widely read, finds dedicated collaborators, and moves swiftly towards production. #BAPF2022

The community of national & local readers for the 45th Bay Area Playwrights Festival in 2022 enthusiastically recommends HOTEL PUERTO VALLARTA as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We highly enjoyed this play's humor and comical investigation of sacrifice for community. We were compelled by this play's use of stylistic campy farce, snappy dialogue, and range of comic characters. We hope this play is widely read, finds dedicated collaborators, and moves swiftly towards production. #BAPF2022

The community of national & local readers for the 45th Bay Area Playwrights Festival in 2022 enthusiastically recommends HOMESICK, or sacred heterosexual spaces as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We were highly enjoyed the play's investigation of home, identity and queerness. We were compelled by this play's promise in its well-executed employment of expressionistic style and biting cultural satire. We hope this play is widely read, finds dedicated collaborators, and moves swiftly towards production. #BAPF2022

The community of national & local readers for the 45th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (2022) enthusiastically recommends HOUSE OF INDIA as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation.
We were deeply moved by the investigation of how the ‘American Dream’ has shifted for immigrant families especially across generational differences. We were compelled by the play’s promise in it’s execution of the familial relationships & obligations and themes of capitalization of identity and assimilation. We hope this play is widely read, finds dedicated collaborators, and moves swiftly towards production. #BAPF2022

The community of national and local readers for the 45th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (summer 2022) enthusiastically recommends THE CASSANDRA MURDERS as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We were deeply moved by the play’s use of parallel worlds and time structure to investigate cyclical systemic patterns and what one will do for protection when failed by societal structures. We were compelled by this play’s promise using classical narratives well to spark conversations on current CSA laws in need of change. We hope this play is widely read, finds dedicated collaborators, and moves swiftly towards production. #BAPF2022

The community of national & local readers for the 45th Bay Area Playwrights Festival (summer 2022) enthusiastically recommends BEHEADING COLUMBUS as a Semi-Finalist. We were deeply moved by this play's unpacking of what makes identity - DNA, family, culture, - as it all comes into question for two sisters navigating a new understanding of who they are as the play investigates the colonizer and colonized. We were compelled by this play's assuredness with technical skills, as well as Burbano's ongoing artistry with several plays she's sent BAPF. We hope this play finds dedicated collaborators and moves swiftly towards production. #BAPF2022

The community of national & local readers for the 45th Bay Area Playwrights Festival (summer 2022) enthusiastically recommends AND COME APART as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We were deeply moved by this play's exploration of intergenerational trauma and grief through unconventional, sensory means. We were compelled by this play's promise in its skilled use of poetic form, surrealism and distinct, recognizable characters. We hope this play is widely read, finds dedicated collaborators, and moves swiftly towards production. #BAPF2022"

The community of national and local readers for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival in 2021 enthusiastically recommends OUR BLACK DEATH as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation out of 755 plays. We highly enjoyed this whimsical and highly stylized journey through the bubonic plague, told with a strong queer voice centering femme characters. We were compelled by the play's assured pace and the magic in the storytelling, with a sense of hope amidst a plague. We hope this play is widely read, finds dedicated collaborators, and moves swiftly towards production. #BAPF2021

The community of national and local readers for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival in 2021 enthusiastically recommends THINGS I NEVER TOLD THE STARS as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We were deeply moved by the relationships between Stella and her grandparents, as well as transitions between the metaphysical world and reality. We were compelled by the play's promise, as the central imagery of the cosmos is beautifully rendered. We hope this play is widely read, finds dedicated collaborators, and moves swiftly towards production. #BAPF2021

The community of national and local readers for the 44th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival in 2021, enthusiastically recommends OFF-WHITE; OR THE ARAB HOUSE PARTY PLAY as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We were deeply moved by the story of a teenager trying to fit in with white peers and the racism that occurred to the MENA community post-9/11. We were compelled by the play's promise with natural dialogue and wit, dramatizing a time where one's identity and self-worth widely vacillates. We hope this play is widely read, finds dedicated collaborators, and moves swiftly towards production. #BAPF2021