The Bay Area’s largest celebration of new plays and new writers. The festival will feature more than 40 performances and over a dozen readings of short and full-length works, including the world premieres of Patricia Cotter’s “The Daughters” and Ruben Grijalva’s “Anna Considers Mars.”
Combines clockwork choreography, rhythmic fugue and ice art into a fantastical tale that urgently asks: What are the costs of living in a technologically accelerating world? The play examines the challenges and opportunities we face in a highly stratified society and world of unbridled growth and dwindling resources.
By Bay Area playwright Philip Kan Gotanda. This play explores the challenges of and need to find solidarity in an age of growing polarization in American society.
Uses sign language, spoken text, dance, silence and music to present different Deaf women’s experiences of discrimination and abuse. The project seeks to bring awareness to the Deaf community who are often overlooked within the #metoo movement.
Will invite three experimental, women-led theater companies to work with 3Girl Theatre Company’s (3GT) creative team to develop and present staged readings on-site at a San Francisco tech company. By connecting edgy young theater innovators with their counterparts in technology, 3GT hopes to spark new kinds of artistic collaboration and build audiences for new plays […]
Uses Geologic Time as the basic unit of measurement in order to embody large-scale, planetary and galactic forces. Privileging non-human logics, the immersive performance will allow for expression of phenomena that are often perceived as invisible to become intelligible, actionable, and performative.
An interdisciplinary performance of Urban African culture created from narratives prompted by the question, Wey you dey? (Pidgin English for “Where were you?”), directed by Nkeiruka Oruche and Tossie Long.
Will bring together a cohort of Bay Area, red/swing state, and Russian interdisciplinary artists in a cultural exchange lab, positioning multidisciplinary art making as a parallel for pluralism and inclusivity.
A one-night journey down the Las Vegas strip. The play wrestles with the question of our responsibility to tragic events that don’t directly affect our lives.
A contemporary dance about dying and the acute, isolating loss suffered by survivors of the deceased. Exploring the paradoxical nature between grief’s ubiquity and its singularity, the work responds to what feels like an increasingly incomprehensible and desensitizing reality where every day, in some way, we hear news about death.
