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2023 Reading Series This page contains events that are part of the developmental and staged reading series, programs for plays that are closer to theater-ready, having progressed beyond scene nights.
All readings are free to PCSF members. The 2023 Reading Series will once again be presented on Zoom, enabling playwrights and audiences from distant locations to participate. As always, volunteers are welcome. More volunteers would enable us to present more readings, and eventually achieve our goal of getting back into a live theatre. Interest, comments and questions to: readingseries@playwrightscentersf.org Best Regards, Scott Choate, Neil Harkins, Marsha Roberts – Producers Sunday, April 162:00 p.m. Jack Rushton is a long-time collaborator with The Actors Studio of Newburyport, MA, where he produces TASN's annual short play festival, now in its fifth year. 40 of Jack's short plays have been produced at more than 150 Festivals around the country, including his George's Radio, the Andaluz Award winner at The Fusion Theater's The Seven-2017 and his Mistranslations, a finalist for the National Award-City Theater, Miami-2019. Recent debuts are: Dust Bunnies at The Chain Theater One Act Festival-NYC (February), Movie Reel at The Forge Theater Lab (February), and It Ain't Pinter at The Theater Project's Think Fast Festival (March). This will be the first public reading of Love & Loss. Sunday, April 304:00 p.m. Facing a life and death decision, Shannon must choose what's most important. 25 years ago, Jediah Craig was an aspiring writer in Chicago when life changed course and he followed a different path. In 2021 he found his way back onto the path and started writing again casually. He is a member of the Playground SF Writers Pool. His play La Tierra del Olvido won the March People's Choice Award. His play Mimosa was quarterfinalist for the 2023 ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest. Most days you will find him bumming around Berkeley writing and frantically trying to make up for lost time. monday, May 17:00 p.m. Their pa was so bad they wanted to do him in—with a paperclip, yet! Hope they have a backup plan. Carol Sheldon has had two professions productions on the east coast: one in NYC and one at the Boston Globe Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts, starring Betsy Palmer. Most of her plays have enjoyed community productions from Michigan to California. Carol lives in Marin County; many of her works went from page to stage at Ross Valley Theatre in RAW—Ross Alternative Works. Sunday, May 72:00 p.m. When Leila's husband leaves her, her poodle, Violette, gives her advice. What could go wrong? Karen Marguerite Coronna is a Bay Area writer and actor, honored to be a Brady Fellow with 3Girls theater. The Next to the Last Box was a semi-finalist at Ground Floor, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Bay Area Playwright's Foundation, and Garry Marshall Theater New Works. Karen has had short works performed locally, including the NARAL Repro Rights Play Festival, 2017, and other short plays and developmental readings with Playwrights' Center of San Francisco and Central Works Theater. She has had poetry published in Rat's Ass Review, and other publications. A California native born in Los Angeles, her home is in Oakland, California. monday, June 127:00 p.m. Urged by a professor planning to steal indigenous remedies, a student changes her educational goals. Robert Flor is a Seattle native, raised in the city's Central Area and Rainier Valley. His plays focus on life in Seattle's Filipino community. His short plays, The Injury, Pinakbet, and Pinoy Hill were performed in the Eclectic Theatre Festival and the Filipino Community Center. Salamanka's Barber Shop was performed at the Burien Actors Theatre and Mabuhay Majesty, a full-length play, was produced at the Rainier Arts Center. Robert is currently developing several works, including Adama and the Demons, Pinoys Play Ball, and Salamangka Returns. He is a member of Dramatist Guild, Theatre Puget Sound and Seattle Playwrights Circle. Sunday, August 64:00 pm A racially-motivated attack becomes the spark plug of the Civil Rights movement in the U.S. Delvyn C. Case, Jr. formerly Director of Drama at First Baptist Church in Portland, Maine, is now Director of Drama at the First Presbyterian Church in Bonita Springs, Florida. Along with writing and directing his plays for churches, Delvyn writes and directs his plays concerning international human and women's rights. These plays have been presented at numerous festivals and theaters. Delvyn is a full member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Stanley Katz has been active in theater for more than 25 years. He started his theater training learning the ropes of Improv, and through that process, found a niche in helping to mold actors. In the last 10 years he has acted, produced, and directed, with directing becoming his love and primary focus. Stan has recently directed and produced plays for the Township Theater Group on Long Island, for the Northport (Long Island, NY) One Act Play Festival, and for Bare Bones Theater. He most recently assistant directed Between Riverside and Crazy, a Pulitzer Prize winner by Stephen Adly Guirgis, at the Studio Theatre on Long Island. Stan has written one full length play about Isaac Woodard- Forgotten Hero based on a recent book by U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel, Unexampled Courage -The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring. An important objective f the readings is for the playwrights to get feedback from audience members to help them develop their play to the next level of readiness. Please plan to attend as many readings as you can and participate in the feedback session following the readings. Updated 4/15/2023
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