sheherazade submission deadline: august 31

Start scanning those headlines, mining those newsfeeds, and listening for those juicy bits of inspiration! We're looking for 8 to 10 eight-minute plays about topical and recognizable events or themes of 2008. Sheherazade is our biggest most popular event of the year and the source for most of our annual funding, but more importantly it's an opportunity for our playwrights to strut their stuff, have fun, and get sold out audience exposure. Here's all the information you need in order to enter Sheherazade.

fall auditions: september 13

It's that time again. We will be holding our general season and Sheherazade auditions on Saturday, September 13th, 2008.  Here's the full scoop on our auditions.

Spring Reading Series

The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco recently completed our 2008 Spring Reading Series. This season we examined six new plays that were sometimes enthralling, sometimes hilarious, sometimes perplexing, but always engaging and instructive. Join us for our soon-to-be-announced Fall 2008 reading series, when we will enjoy and discuss more new works, uncover important truths about our own creative endeavors, and help to launch more up-and-coming artists.

Congratulations to the selected playwrights and thank you to everyone who submitted!

   

Developmental Readings  Produced by Jan Carty Marsh
April 29	The Trinity Test Seeking absolution for all the wrong reasons... By Carolina Rojas Moretti
May 20	1983 If you had one chance to change your life, what if you were too stupid to know how? By Richard Ciccarone
Staged Readings  Produced by Sara Staley
April 8	For All the Babies’ Fathers What does it mean to be a father? By Molly Rhodes, Directed by Laley Lippard
April 22	Brothers and Blood You can’t go home again. By Stephen Halasz, Directed by Jon Wai‑keung Lowe
June 3	Main Entry All dialogue leads to sex in this seriocomedy about love and commitment. By Beth Soloway, Directed by Andy Hamner
June 17	Widow West A lady is not just a woman. A lady is someone in charge of who people think she is... By Morgan Ludlow, Directed by Marilyn Langbehn
See full calendar for Scene Nights, special events, times, and locations.

Volunteer Opportunities

Are you interested in helping PCSF run smoothly and meet our goals? Are you interested in expanding your experience and skills? Do you have a few spare hours a month? Want the warm fuzzy feeling of having done a good turn and helped save the sanity of your selfless, enthusiastic, dedicated, hard working board members? and maybe in the process have some fun....

The Playwright's Center of San Francisco needs:

A publicity Director. Help us hone our image, get our name out there, and meet our growth goals for 2008-2009. This is a Board Position.

An Education Coordinator. Duties include investigating education programs in the area, negotiating discounts or opportunities for PCSF members and having them publicized in the newsletter and on the website.

Facilitators Every PCSF event is facilitated. We have a standard format that we'd like to train a few members in and have them facilitate readings for their peers. It's a great way to meet people, help others, get some insight into the organization, and learn great critiquing questions and techniques that will help your own writing.

Oh and did we mention a Volunteer Coordinator? This is a Board of Directors position. We need someone to help us garner, woo, coordinate, and develop volunteers.