Playwrights Foundation Announces First Two 2019 Rough Readings Series

The #RoughReading Series is a monthly series of new works by rising national playwrights. It is in its 12th year thanks to the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University.Join us to listen to a new work in development, meet the writer, and participate in the creative effort of bringing contemporary theater to life.

The fourth Rough Reading of the season is This Much I Know by PF Resident Playwright Jonathan Spector. Spector's newest work - literally fresh off the printer- is a time-hopping investigation of a missing woman.

An exceptionally accomplished playwright, Spector's award-winning play Eureka Day (winning Theatre Bay Area's Best New Play award) will be showcased this month in New York with Roundabout Underground.

Join us for what will be a vital part of the very beginning of the writing process with one of the most accomplished playwrights in the Bay Area.

Monday, January 14 at 7:30 PM, Roble Hall, Stanford University

Tuesday, January 15 at 7:00PM, Theater of Yugen (SF)

Free: To make free reservations to to www.playwrightsfoundation.org

A man's investigation into his missing wife launches us on a time-hopping fugue across the 20th century and into the mysteries of our unconscious minds.

Jonathan Spector is a playwright and theatre-maker based in Oakland, CA. His plays include EUREKA DAY (Aurora Theatre, SF Chronicle 'Best of 2018'), GOOD. BETTER. BEST. BESTED. (Custom Made Theatre), ADULT SWIM (PlayGround Festival) and IN FROM THE COLD (Just Theater).

He has received the Rella Lossy Award, Theatre Bay Area Award for Outstanding World Premiere, and been a two-time winner of Aurora Theater's Global Age Prize. Jonathan is a Resident Playwright at Playwrights Foundation, and was recently featured as one of "100 artists putting the East Bay on the map" by San Francisco Magazine. His play Eureka Day was also featured in the Chronicle's Theater Year In Review as one of the best plays of 2018.

When Lighting The Voids

by Jon Bernson

Playwrights Foundation Resident Playwright

Thursday, January 17th, 7:30pm

Word. A Cafe., 5114 3rd St

A special reading at a new literary cafe in Bayview!

Thursday, January 17th, 7:30pm

Word. A Cafe., 5114 3rd St.

Come before the reading for delicious food, beer, and wine at cafe prices. Doors open at 6pm.

Free: To make free reservations to to www.playwrightsfoundation.org

Constructed as a mystery and culled from interviews with OSHA investigators, shipyard workers, and family members of the deceased, the play unravels the story of what happened and reveals the human trauma inflicted by a tragic explosion at a Gulf Coast shipyard in 2009. It also underscores the determination of those still seeking justice to this day.

Jon Bernson is a playwright, musician and interdisciplinary artist from San Francisco. He is part of the Playwrights Foundation Residency Program, RPI. Follow the link to read his latest interview.

Playwrights Foundation is kicking off 2019 with a new partnership: B2ANP (Business to Arts Non Profit) with Word. A cafe. a brand new literary cafe in SF's burgeoning Bayview district! We'll be presenting a quarterly series of readings by PF's Resident Playwrights. Contemporary foods, coffees, wine and beer, contemporary playwriting, and brand new art! This partnership will support our Resident Playwrights and champion new works, and shine a light on a local new business in an important SF community.

When Lighting The Voids by Playwrights Foundation Resident Playwright Jon Bernson was developed at #BAPF2018 in partnership with Storyworks and the Center for Investigative Reporting (Reveal) and will have its world premiere in New Orleans this April.

When Lighting The Voids is the story of a tragic explosion at a Gulf Coast shipyard commissioned by the Center for Investigative Reporting.

Jon Bernson is a playwright, musician and interdisciplinary artist from San Francisco. He is part of the Playwrights Foundation Residency Program, RPI. Follow the link to read his latest interview.