When I first heard of Gordon Hirabayashi in the late 1990’s, I was enthralled -- and shocked. Shocked that I had never heard of his story before....
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‘Shoot Me When…’: A Note from the Artistic Director
We first noticed Ruben Grijalva, the second of our San Francisco Playhouse-commissioned playwrights to be produced this season, when we...
Continue Reading →A Note from ‘Shoot Me When…’ Playwright Ruben Grijalva
I first heard the sentiment that inspired this play expressed as an irreverent joke. Surely this sweet woman with the salty demeanor intended...
Continue Reading →Notes from the Empathy Gym – April 2021
We are fanatical storytellers. Everyone in the theatre, from set designers to automation techs, from actors to general managers, are magnetized by...
Continue Reading →Theatre reopens its doors: San Francisco Playhouse announces in-person performances of Hold These Truths
SAN FRANCISCO (13 April 2021) — San Francisco Playhouse (Artistic Director Bill English; Producing Director Susi Damilano) announced its return to...
Continue Reading →‘I Was Right Here’: A Note from the Artistic Director
I did not imagine, when we started our five-year, 20-play commission program that we would be commissioning a solo piece. The one-person show has...
Continue Reading →A Note from ‘I Was Right Here’ Playwright Julia Brothers
When I first started writing this piece in 2018, it was to be a one-character play driven by high tech effects, an experimental bent, and a more...
Continue Reading →Notes from the Empathy Gym – March 2021
They are calling this the age of disinformation – the systematic and knowing flooding of the airwaves with false statements – the countless...
Continue Reading →[hieroglyph]: A Note from the Artistic Directors
Every year, an amazing grass-roots organization, The Kilroys, selects fifty promising new scripts by women, trans, and nonbinary playwrights that...
Continue Reading →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...
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