The Deliverance Selected as Semi-Finalist for Bay Area Playwright’s Festival 2022

Playwright’s Foundation has announced its semi-finalists for the 2022 Bay Area Playwright’s Festival and selected Daysha Veronica’s new play, The Deliverance.

The Bay Area Playwrights Festival is one of the oldest and most successful new play festivals in the US. Established in 1976 by Robert Woodruff, the festival has continuously discovered original and distinctive new voices in the theater, and invested in the development of their work.

Many prize winning, nationally significant playwrights got their first professional experiences at the BAPF. Examples include Pulitzer Prize winners Nilo Cruz, Annie Baker and Sam Shepard, MacArthur Award winners Sam Hunter and Marcus Gardley, Lauren Gunderson (one of the most produced living playwrights in the U.S.), and Katori Hall prior to her Broadway debut.

The Deliverance is an expansion of the 10-min play, Mother Earth Day, that digs deeper into history of the Howard Family farmlands and the family’s struggle to have faith in their land, their history, and each other as climate change and increasing racial tension in the country start to wreck havoc over the spiritual connection they have with the land. So, when an investor makes an offer on their land, the family is forced to consider a tough decision.

It is available to read on New Play Exchange.