Event Title:

Organization:

  Performing Arts

  San Francisco

Start Date:

  9/18/2026

End Date:

  9/27/2026

Start Time:

  7:00 PM

End Time:

  7:00 PM

Event Info: 

  September 18-27, Friday/Saturday/Sunday, times vary

The hybrid 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF47) welcomes four transformative playwrights who take us on a journey through inner and outer worlds, traversing time and space to REVIVE long-silenced voices, RESIST the forces that seek to oppress, and RENEW strength, healing, connection, and the power to create change.

The BAPF47 playwrights and plays:

HOWLING: A FAIRY TALE by Jordan Bird
A woman struggles to navigate her Autism diagnosis, childhood trauma, and their impact on her relationships as the border between fairy tale and reality blurs and and the howling of the wolves gets closer.

THE NEGROES HAVE RISEN by Maxine Dillon
A group of young Black Living History Interpreters working at a plantation museum grapple with identity, confront buried violence, and reclaim their power through rebellion.

SUICIDE COWBOYS by Greg T. Nanni
Two cowboys duel over life and death within Lucky's mind as Lucky and Milo, two survivors of suicide attempts, try to inspire within each other a will to live.

BY THE BANKS by christina michelle watkins
Two estranged Black sisters scatter their father's ashes on the banks of the Wabash River - as they confront the past, memories surface, old scars rip open, and the forces of Nature itself intervene.

https://playwrightsfoundation.org/2026-bay-area-playwrights-festival/

Location:

  The Rueff at A.C.T.'s Strand Theater

Room:

Address:

  1127 Market Street

Phone:

  415-626-2176

City:

  San Francisco

State/Province:

  CA