Evelyn Jean Pine

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Biography

(She/Her) #PlayGround

#Strange Trace

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Experience

PlayGround

2016 - 2021

Resident Playwright

2016 - 2021
I've been a Resident Playwright at PlayGround in 2015-2017, 2018-2019, and   2020-2021.  PlayGround is a leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub, with a core commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. PlayGround’s mission is to support the development of significant new local voices for the theatre, helping to launch these writers onto the national scene. 

Biography

Evelyn Jean Pine

Evelyn Jean Pine’s short opera about interruption, nada, written with Norwegian composer, Tze Yeung Ho, premiered at Strange Trace Opera’s Stencils Festival in November 2022. Walking The Starry Path:  A California Country Western Musical, written with composer Tom Darter, won Best Staged Reading Award at the SF Olympians Festival. Her musical, Back To Earth, with music by Joshua Brody was a People’s Choice Award Winner and was produced at the PlayGround Festival. Her play, Perfect Endings, was part of the “Vote Performance Festival” at the  Milibo Art Theatre in October 2022. Her comedy, 7 Secrets Of Teaching Online was a hit at Theatre 33’s New Play Festival this summer.  In August, Global Literary Theory published her article, “Decoupling Lust & Love:  A Review of We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers."  Her play, Oakland 1982:  You, Me And Rickey is the first drama published in online baseball literary journal, The Twin Bill.  With Katja Rivera, she co-wrote The Invisible Project, which launched the Latinx Mafia's Bay Area Staged Reading series. She is a Lecturer-Faculty Emerita  at San Francisco State University and  a proud co-owner of the most ground-breaking social networking site on earth, The WELL.

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