T. D. Mitchell News

2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (#BAPF2018) runs July 20-29, 2018 at Potrero Stage, 1895 18th St in San Francisco. This years festival features BAMUTHI, Jennifer Gollan and Nathan Brown as special guests leading the discussions following readings of 3 out of the 6 new plays that have been selected for the festival this year.

Playwrights Foundation announces the plays and playwrights of the 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF) running July 20-29, 2018 at Potrero Stage, 1895 18th St in San Francisco. The 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF) features SUSPENSION by Kristiana Rae Colon, HOUSE OF JOY by Madhuri Shekar, VRTU-L by T.D. Mitchell, WHEN LIGHTING THE VOIDS by Jon Bernson, COLONIALISM IS TERRIBLE, BUT PHO IS DELICIOUS by  Dustin Chinn and THE DAUGHTERS by Patricia Cotter. A nationally recognised launchpad for exceptional plays and playwrights the Festival features twelve staged readings, offers a Theater Professionals weekend 7/27-29, with special events and a kick-off fundraiser on 7/15.  Tickets on sale June 1st at www.playwrightsfoundation.org

Mitchell's newest play, Queens for a Year, focuses on women in the military and opened the season at Hartford Stage.

Hartford Stage Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak and Managing Director Michael Stotts announced today the cast and creative team for Queens for a Year, written by T.D. Mitchell and featuring local actress Vanessa R Butler.

Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak and Managing Director Michael Stotts announced today that Hartford Stage's 2016-17 season will include Queens for a Year by T.D. Mitchell, The Piano Lesson by August Wilson, The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare and The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey by James Lecesne.

'Ideally, I want the audience to feel as conflicted and uncomfortable as I did during the process of discovering these women? As I was writing the play, Maria Lauterbach was murdered. By this time, I'd heard so much about the predominance of sexual assault and physical violence against women in the military, I felt as though I was the only person who wasn't shocked by her murder? this play chose me?' -T.D. Mitchell

The Playwrights Foundation has announced the selections for the 37th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF) that will take place July 18-27, 2014 at the Thick House Theater in San Francisco. BAPF 2014 is a diverse and eclectic cycle of work that builds on nearly four decades of discovering and highlighting a range of voices early in their careers who have gone on to become some of the most celebrated playwrights of our times. Chosen from over 500 submissions, the summer festival features new work by playwrights Don Nguyen, T.D. Mitchell, Rob Melrose & Z.O.N.K., Elizabeth Hersh, Phillip Howze and E. Hunter Spreen. The plays range from the whimsical to the terrifying, tackling the most timely and pertinent issues of the day as well as reimagining our world in ways only the theater can accomplish - with poetry and form.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Reverie Productions for its inaugural festival of new play development, WET INK, including workshop productions of Beyond the 17th Parallel by 'Army Wives' staff writer T.D. Mitchell, directed by Robert Egan, and a new translation and stage adaptation of Beowulf by Colin D. Young, directed by Tania Inessa Kirkman.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Reverie Productions for its inaugural festival of new play development, WET INK, including workshop productions of Beyond the 17th Parallel by 'Army Wives' staff writer T.D. Mitchell, directed by Robert Egan, and a new translation and stage adaptation of Beowulf by Colin D. Young, directed by Tania Inessa Kirkman.