Bay Area Playwrights Festival
WWSF salutes Playwrights Foundation because more than 50% of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival playwrights, directors and dramaturgs are women this year!
Category Archives: Spotlights
Interviews with local women theater artists
Loud & Unladylike Festival
DIVAfest’s Loud & Unladylike Festival of new plays runs thru June and July, and I’m excited to help present three original plays about rad women that you probably haven’t heard about. Loud & Unladylike was inspired by something crazy that happened when a classmate from my MFA program at SF State wrote a play…
Dennis Chowenhill Interviews Carol Lashof
Dennis Chowenhill, Resident Dramaturg at the Virago Theatre Company, shares the transcript of this illuminating interview of dramaturg, playwright, and educator Carol Lashof.
Yuriko Doi Interviewed by Sheila Devitt
Yuriko Doi founded Theatre of Yugen in 1978 and has served as the company’s artistic director for over two decades. Most recently, she directed the world premiere of Mystical Abyss, a dance theater exploration of Japanese and Native American creation mythology. Now semi-retired, she still plays an active role in the company…
Interview with Valerie Weak
Starting this month, WWSF will be collaborating with Valerie Weak to host the Counting Actors Project. Read her interview with WWSF where she speaks about her journey in theater and how the project came about.
Interview with Radhika Rao
Radhika Rao is an actor, improviser, writer and educator. A born performer, she integrates theater into different educational settings where she enjoys finding synergies in the two fields she loves the most – performing arts and academia – imparting life skills, fostering creativity and living a life of art.
