Every year, an amazing grass-roots organization, The Kilroys, selects fifty promising new scripts by women, trans, and nonbinary playwrights that...
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A Note from [hieroglyph] Playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza
: an origin story I was six years old when Patrick Sykes kidnapped & raped nine-year-old Shatoya Currie (Girl X) in apartment 504 of...
Continue Reading →Notes from the Empathy Gym – February 2021
To say it has been a crazy time this last 11 months, is to beg the obvious. Our heads are reeling from the pandemic, from the election and from all...
Continue Reading →‘Songs for a New World’: A Note from the Artistic Director
Its emphasis on breaking past barriers to discover hope and redemption has made me a fan of Songs for a New World since it first appeared. It's...
Continue Reading →‘The Jewelry Box’: A Note from the Artistic Director
More than ten years ago, our late amazing publicist, Anne Abrams, introduced us to Brian Copeland and got me on his weekly radio show to promote our...
Continue Reading →‘Art’: A Note from the Artistic Director
When Art was first produced on Broadway 22 years ago, it was a brilliant fable about male friendship. An affectionate satire, written by a woman,...
Continue Reading →San Francisco Playhouse Announces On-Stage Filming for Art
SAN FRANCISCO (October 2020) — San Francisco Playhouse (Artistic Director Bill English; Producing Director Susi Damilano) were given the green...
Continue Reading →From the Empathy Gym – August 2020
The Reports of Theatre’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated. Is the theatre really dead? – Paul Simon When Mark Twain wrote his famous...
Continue Reading →San Francisco Playhouse Announces Playwrights Selected for Year Three of 5-Year Commission Program
SAN FRANCISCO (August 2020) — San Francisco Playhouse (Artistic Director Bill English; Producing Director Susi Damilano) continued its commitment...
Continue Reading →From the Empathy Gym – July 2020
Empathy Into Action We hoped the coronavirus pandemic would teach us something. Surely, some good would come from the fact that it has touched all...
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