Pacific Playwrights Festival

The Pacific Playwrights Festival (PPF), a national forum for playwrights and theatre leaders, is dedicated to developing and producing new American plays. It is held every summer at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California.

Within the American theatre there is an ongoing need for playwrights to have the opportunity to develop new work with the support of a community of artists. In recent years, many programs that did exist have been redirected or ended. The goal of PPF is to provide a gathering place for writers and theatre leaders to meet informally, sharing ideas and interests as new projects emerge.

The Festival includes public play readings that showcase new works by established and emerging writers, as well as two world premiere productions.

Festival History

1998

1999

2000

  • The Education of Randy Newman words and music by Randy Newman conceived by Michael Roth, Jerry Patch and Mr. Newman (Production - dir. Myron Johnson)
  • The End of It All by Cusi Cram (Workshop - dir. Lisa Portes)
  • Fighting Words by Sunil Kuruvilla (Workshop - dir. Martin Benson)
  • Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams by Nilo Cruz (Reading - dir. Diane Rodriguez)
  • Vieques by Jorge Gonzalez (Reading - dir. Mark Rucker)
  • Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire (Reading - dir. Mark Rucker)*
  • The Butterfly Collection by Theresa Rebeck (Reading - dir. Bartlett Sher)*
  • The Beard of Avon by Amy Freed (Reading - dir. David Emmes)*
  • Dulce de Leche by Daniel Goldfarb (Reading - dir. John Pasquin)
  • Tom Walker by John Strand (Reading - dir. Kyle Donnelly)

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

  • Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson (Production - dir. Anne Justine D'Zmura)*
  • Completeness by Itamar Moses (Production - dir. Pam MacKinnon)
  • The Prince of Atlantis by Steven Drukman (Reading - dir. Dámaso Rodriguez)
  • How the World Began by Catherine Trieschmann (Reading - dir. Shelley Butler)
  • The Droll {Or, a stage-play about the END of theatre} by Meg Miroshnik (Reading - dir. David Chambers)
  • Annapurna by Sharr White (Reading - dir. Loretta Greco)*
  • Cloudlands book by Octavio Solis, music by Adam Gwon, lyrics by Octavio Solis and Adam Gwon (Reading - dir. Octavio Solis)*

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

*Commissioned by South Coast Repertory
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