PLAYWRIGHT Country Matters (November 2024)

Lee Brady is an award-winning San Francisco playwright who, like everyone else in theatre, wears several hats.  She’s an actor, a cofounder of 3Girls Theatre a teacher and a theatre critic. Her plays have been produced in Memphis, New York City, Columbia, Missouri, Edinburgh, Scotland and Valdez and Alaska as well as in San Francisco.

PLAYWRIGHT Entangled (August 2024)

Julie Hébert is a writer/director of television, film and theater. Her plays have been produced all over the country and she has twice been honored with the PEN Center Award in Drama. Her extensive television work has been distinguished with the EMMY and a Peabody Award. More information at juliehebert.com

PLAYWRIGHT The Next Andy Warhol (September 2024)

Lynne Kaufman is a nationally award winning playwright with two-dozen full-length plays produced at such venues as The Magic Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Florida Studio Theatre, The Fountain Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville and The Marsh.

PLAYWRIGHT A Pickwick Christmas (December 2024)

Brian has been a leadership and public persona development coach for the labor union, SEIU. He has been on the faculty of Pepperdine University, The Old Globe and A.C.T. and has been a guest teaching artist for many other schools and theaters. Other scripted theatre credits include three plays with Rita Rudner at The Laguna Playhouse, in addition to shows at A.C.T., Shakespeare Santa Cruz, The Magic Theater and Off-Broadway with Improbable. Brian spent the last 25 years in L.A. with Impro Theatre directing and improvising in L.A. Noir (Presidio Theater, Litquake, OSF), Tennessee Williams (Odyssey Theater/South Coast Rep), Dickens (Broad Stage/North Coast Rep) and Shakespeare (OSF Green Show, Pasadena Playhouse). Film and TV includes, He Was a Quiet Man, Jack, Thanks, Lifegame, Speechless and American Body Shop.

PLAYWRIGHT Crows Landing Gently, Gently (June 2024)

Lynch was awarded the Shubert Fellowship in Playwriting along with three Bay Area critics’ awards and six Hollywood Dramalogue awards. He was also voted Best New Playwright at the Edward Albee Theater Conference. Lynch earned his bachelor’s degree from California State University, Fresno, in 1971 and went to work as a theater instructor and manager for Merced College until 1975. From then until 1977, he was the theater manager for Skyline College. He was the playwright in residence for One Act Theater Company of San Francisco from 1981-1991. He was a theater instructor and playwright in residence at WHCC from 1985-1992. Thus far during his career, Lynch has had 39 of his plays produced, nine of which were set in Coalinga. These plays were produced in cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.

PLAYWRIGHT Spoiled (October 2024)

A former San Franciscan, Ken Narasaki is an actor/writer whose plays include his adaptation of NO-NO BOY, and the award-winning plays INNOCENT WHEN YOU DREAM, THE MIKADO PROJECT (co-written with Doris Baizley, Kumu Kahua Best Play), GHOSTS AND BAGGAGE, and OUR WAR.

PLAYWRIGHT Pandora (July 2024)

Laurel Ollstein is an award-winning playwright, director and educator whose plays most recently have been produced at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. She is currently working on her musical In Tillamook, and her full-length memoir, Bullet. Pandora was a commission from the Getty Villa. laurelollstein.com