Playwrights Foundation Announces The Annual Winter Festival of Micro Plays FLASHPLAYS!

Playwrights Foundation announces FlashPlays!, its 7th annual winter festival on December 3 and 4, featuring an evening of newly penned micro plays that together evoke a complex mosaic of San Francisco with a shimmering beauty, fascinating legacy, and the current challenges - written by a cadre of the Bay Area's finest playwrights. FlashPlays! features 40+ Playwrights, 70+ Plays, and 80+ Minutes of Fast and Furious Fun!

For two nights only FlashPlays! Saturday, December 3 at 8PM and Sunday, December 4, 2016 at 5PMat the Brava Theater, 2781- 24th Street in San Francisco. A community benefit for Playwrights Foundation, tickets range from $18 advance general admission to the $36 VIP package (reserved best seat and festive drink of your choice), and go on sale at www.eventbrite.com Nov 1st. Tickets will be $25 at the door. A DJ dance party follows the 12/4 performance from 7PM - 10PM.

Playwrights Foundation Artistic Director Amy Mueller notes, "The idea of FlashPlays! is to create a theatrical composite of our beloved city in short flashes of insight, recognition, revelation, anger, despair, and ebullience that reflect us here in this moment, against the backdrop of of San Francisco's inspirational legacy as a place of hope, celebration and sanctuary. Among the 70+, 60-second plays in this year's crop are gems that evoke the beauty of our vistas, and celebrate our wildly diverse voices, who poignantly and theatrically speak about the current challenges that face us. An evening, replete with cocktails and mocktails, that will be sure to be both entertaining and engaging."

FlashPlays! features 40+ local playwrights, 12 of whom are Resident Playwrights (or RP alumni)* at Playwrights Foundation: E.H. Benedict • Jon Bernson* • Rachel Bublitz • Victoria Chong Der* • Anthony Clarvoe • Roy Conboy • Patricia Cotter* • Roberta D'Alois • Paul Flores • Britney Frazier • Elizabeth Gjelten • Michaela Goldhaber • Prince Gomolvilas • Garret Jon Groenveld* • Dipika Guha* • E. Hunter Spreen* • Barbara Jwanouskos • Min Kahng* • Lynne Kaufman • Carol Lashof • Jeffrey Lo • Aaron Loeb* • Jonathan Luskin • Alison Luterman • Karen Macklin • Patricia Milton • Enrique R. Muñoz • Nick Mwaluko • Evelyn Jean Pine • Tracy Held Potter • Madeline Puccioni • Kate Robards • Kate E. Ryan* • Josh Senyak • Tanya Shaffer* • Betty Shamieh* • Michael Gene Sullivan* • Aimee Suzara • Noelle Viñas • Arisa White

Directors include: Brady Brophy-Hilton • Christine Keating • Rem Myers• Ryan Marchand • May Liang • Adam Odsess-Rubin• Trevor Scott Floyd • Addie Ulrey

ABOUT THE FLASHPLAYS! FESTIVAL

The FlashPlays! Festival is a community benefit for Playwrights Foundation, and will bring our community together creatively to think about our city and our world. This format builds on the idea of "Flash Fiction", featuring newly penned short plays, none longer than 60 seconds, each one telling a complete and riveting story in a quick flash - a moment. The accumulation of these moments together create a composite picture - one that is meaningful and relevant.

Playwrights are selected by invitation and encouraged to write about contemporary themes such as Glitter City - Gritty City, What's Love Got to Do With It?, Politics and Excess, Housing Anxiety etc.; as these themes emerge from the submissions, the plays are organically curated into clusters that reflect connected themes. Teams of directors and actors work to stage each cluster of plays. And the result: 70+ fully mounted plays of a minute or less, staged with bold creativity.

ABOUT PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION

Playwrights Foundation (PF) was founded in 1976, and is today widely recognized as one of the top play development labs in the U.S. Our artistic purpose is to support and champion contemporary playwrights in the creation of new works to sustain theater as a vital, dynamic art form. PF seeks to identify exceptional emerging artists and give them space and time to explore new theatrical ideas and forms in an environment free from the pressures of the marketplace.

By providing a creative home for largely unknown, exceptional local and national playwrights, and committing to accelerating their careers, PF fulfills an essential need in the cultural ecology of the Bay Area. In so doing, we have earned a national reputation for introducing a truly diverse range of singular, boundary-breaking new voices to the American stage, challenging assumptions about subject matter and artistic complexity. The only development lab of its size and scope on the West Coast, PF is widely recognized for its programmatic excellence. Our programs include the Bay Area Playwrights Festival; the Resident Playwrights Initiative; and the Producing Partnership Initiative, which includes our monthly Rough Readings Series.

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