Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2021
Playwrights Foundation, July 2021











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Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2021
Five new plays, each performed twice, with digital bells and whistles to elevate them as staged readings. Plus, the audience was in-theater with the performers all digital!
The 44th Bay Area Playwrights Festival continued online with two weekends of virtual readings, while also adding innovative in-person community building. Five playwrights who told stories of family, spirituality, self-discovery, healing, and legacy.
Playwrights Foundation supports and empowers playwrights’ artistic growth and careers while championing their voices on a national level. They imagine a future where playwrights are radically centered as visionary leaders who transform the world through storytelling. www.playwrightsfoundation.org.
Playwrights Foundation’s Values
- Playwright Centered: We center our decisions around the specific needs of the playwrights we serve and empower them to have artistic agency.
- Community: We strive to create a meaningful community amongst playwrights and cultivate a constellation of creative relationships between playwrights and artists, organizations, advocates, and audiences.
- Equity: We seek to build flexible and adaptable systems in order to create equitable opportunities for people across differences to participate, contribute and succeed.
- Inclusion: We create a culture of access, well-being, and a sense of belonging across a diversity of intersectional identities and voices.
- Innovation: We value artistic experimentation, risk-taking, and innovative systems that support playwrights through a mindset of creativity and abundance.
- Transparency: We strive to practice clear, open, and honest communication at every level both internally and externally.
- Local Commitment: We invest in relationships with Bay Area playwrights, artists, organizations, and communities.
BAPF 2021 Creative Team:
Kieran Beccia – Associate Literary Manager and Rough Readings Associate Producer
Jessica Bird Beza – Executive Artistic Director
Andrew Custer – Technical Director
Lauren English – Casting Director
Laura Espino – Casting Director
Nailah Harper-Malveaux – Community Relationships Manager
Heather Helinsky – Literary Manager
Tessa Saito King – Operations Manager
Den Legaspi – Graphic Designer
Jordan Ramirez Puckett – Festival Producer
Real Time Remix
Jaisey Bates – Playwright
Nailah Harper-Malveaux – Director
Jeanette Harrison – Director
David Geary – Dramaturg
Human Museum
Miyoko Conley – Playwright
Bob Shryock – Director
Divina Shorter – Dramaturg
Micah Carroll – Content Expert
Tiger Beat
Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin – Playwright
Jessica Holt – Director
Wei Ming Dariotis – Content Expert
Supposed Home
Sam Hamashima – Playwright
May Liang – Director
Clint Ramos – Content Expert
The Problem With Magic, Is:
Johnny G. Lloyd – Playwright
Leigh Rondon-Davis – Director
Adrena Williams – Dramaturg
BAPF 2021 featured performers include:
Kaili Turner, Jenny Marlowe, Tierra Allen, AeJay Mitchell, Natalia Duong, Cassie Grilley, Indiia Willmot, Greg Ayers, Joyce Domanico-Huh, Cathleen Riddley, Sarah Traisman, Chris Stevens, Michael Ray Wisely, Kimberly Hollkamp-Dinon, Katie Lee Hill, Erin Mei-Ling Stuart, Lisa Hori-Garcia, Futaba Shioda, Emily Kuroda, Keiko Carreiro, Tasi Alabastro, Sango Tajima, Kenny Scott, Anna Marie Sharpe, Dorian Lockett, Summer Brown, Halili Knox.