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fall 2018 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. Monday, Sept. 17, 2018 American Hearts What happened to Tom? A cross-dressing son goes missing, and the search for him takes the Armstrong family on an emotional roller coaster across the cultural and economic battle lines of Trump's America. A mysterious envelope arrives during a snowy Christmas, unlocking secrets that send a family holiday hurtling toward a bitter and tragic conflict. Steven Hill is a San Francisco-based journalist and author of seven books of political nonfiction. His articles and media interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Atlantic, Guardian, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, C-SPAN, NPR, PBS, Fox News, BBC, Die Zeit, Le Monde, Los Angeles Times, NY Daily News, Salon, HuffingtonPost, SF Chronicle, SF Examiner and more. His short plays have been produced in New York City (Off Off Broadway) and San Francisco. His fiction and poems have appeared in a number of publications, including Columbia Journal, Minnesota Review, San Fernando Poetry Journal, Struggle, Kinnikinnik and others. Contact at www.Steven-Hill.com and @StevenHill1776 7:30 p.m. monday, Sept. 24, 2018 Misconceptions A troubled young man in San Francisco, his mega-meddling mother and cynical father, forever at war with each other. A happy married couple in LA with two boys on the cusp of adolesence. What connects them all? DNA, a sperm donation and the interenet's relentless assault on long held concepts of privacy and family. Let the games begin. Ed Brownson returned to writing for the theater in 2017 after a ten year absence. His plays have been produced in California, New York and Italy, with many developmental and staged readings along the way. His new short play, Alexis Has The Room is being produced as part of the Playwright Center of San Francisco's PlayOff Short Play Festival in November 2018. He studied playwriting at American Conservatory Theatre, Central Works Theater Company, Theater Artists' Conspiracy and many informal venues. He has also written a number of essays, including Fifty at 10,000 Feet, an essay on aging and altitudes, which was a finalist in a Literary Traveler's summer competition. 7:30 p.m. monday, Oct. 1, 2018 Letters from Sister Miriam Two siblings: one followed God, the other the bottle. Both running from a family secret. Sister Miriam writes a letter to her brother, Ted, while he is in jail for public drunkenness, begging him to get his life together. Her letter propels events that ultimately unmask the secret they've kept hidden since they were teenagers in an abusive home. Scott Choate is a playwright (Letters From Sister Miriam, Harley Devers' Texaco Station and How Many More?), published author (Your Guide To Corporate Survival) and songwriter (songs by The Scott Choate Band on Spotify, iTunes & YouTube). Check out http://www.thescottchoateproject.com 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 8, 2018 And She Returns And She Returns is a collection of plays about women reaching across time to reunite with ... themselves. In Faith a woman asks her boyfriend, "Do you like me because I'm Asian?" while an ancient ancestor struggles with more elemental questions on the Mongolian steppe. A Simple Life tells of two women imprisoned in two disparate worlds, writing each other into existence. Return Running is the story of a woman who returns to Korea to confront the doctor who denied that she was raped when she was a young girl, but learns how his denial has become his own punishment. Lisa Kang has worked as a writer, actor and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area for several years. She's had work performed by theaters in the Bay Area, Seoul, Korea and Taipei, Taiwan. Her work has received the honor of being featured in Theater Bay Area's Playwright's Showcase and at Naatak Theater Company's reading series as a finalist in their Ink Pot writing contest. She has also been recognized as a semi-finalist in the Bay Area Playwright's Festival and for MultiStages Theater Company's New Works Contest in New York. She is a co-founder of San Jose's City Lights' Light Source playwriting workshop, founder and former coordinator of Butterfly Effect's playwriting workshop in Taipei and former member of Asian American Theater Company's New Works Incubator. She is currently a member of SF Playground's writing pool and a proud member of the Playwrights' Center of San Francisco. 7:30 p.m. monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Golden Years Golden Years is a collection of 9 inter-related short plays that were written specifically for older actors, focusing on characters who are mostly 65-80 years old. It is a serio-comic look at the joys and challenges of growing old. Rod McFadden began writing plays in 2009. Since then, his plays have been well-received by audiences of independent theatres in San Francisco and throughout the country. He has received awards in national playwriting competitions for his plays, Love Birds, Getting the Message, and Counting on Love (which was also a Heideman award finalist). His work was chosen for the People's Choice award at the 2012 inspiraTO Festival in Toronto. One Monkey More or Less was chosen for publication in the Smith and Kraus' anthology, Best 10-Minute Plays of 2015. Rod serves on the Board of Directors for the Playwrights Center of SF. 7:30 p.m. monday, Oct. 22, 2018 Pasiphae A retelling of the story of the Minotaur –- from his mother's point of view. In a time when a line of female queens and leadership on Crete added its first king. Sex, religion, the struggle between male and female passions, and international intrigue swirl together in a tragedy. Charley Lerrigo is a Bay Area playwright, producer, and occasional director. This year as a PCSF producer he has coproduced 27 plays will also be co-producer for the year-end PCSF PlayOff short play festival. He also coordinates the PCSF Scene Nights program and is a member of the PCSF board. His plays have been performed at the Fringe of Marin, San Francisco Fringe (three times), Pacific School of Religion, Live Oak Theatre (Berkeley) , Shelton Theater (SF), City Lights Theater (San Jose), Piano Fight, and (a musical) at Trinity Lutheran Church, Oakland. In a previous journalistic career he has worked as reporter editor and photojournalist for newspapers, magazines and news agencies in Burlington VT, Boston and New York City. He has a degree in journalism from the University of Alabama, a masters in theology from Boston University. He lives in Oakland with his wife, Pat Bruce-Lerrigo. 7:30 p.m.
Updated 9/16/2018
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