The Write Choice Selected As Semi-Finalist For Bay Area Playwright’s Festival 2021
Playwright’s Foundation has announced its semi-finalists for the 2021 Bay Area Playwright’s Festival and selected Daysha Veronica’s new play, The Write Choice.
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 Write Choice follows an insecure, young black writer who suffers a tragic loss in the family that sends her back to her childhood home. It is here that she discovers a photograph that inspires her to write her first play with the purpose of submitting it to a prominent new works program up in Portland. To everyone's shock, she wins. But when she shows up for the staged reading and discovers that her cast was not what she had originally envisioned for the piece, she is pushed into finding her own voice to ask for what she really wants amidst navigating the complicated racial power structures of the theater.
It is available to read on New Play Exchange and to view on YouTube.
