William Bivins

With six world premieres, four of them full-length plays, William Bivins was the most produced playwright of the 2009/2010 Bay Area season. He is the winner of Pacific Repertory's 2010 Hyperion Project Original Play Competition (his two-act drama "Ransom, Texas" will go up at PacRep in November). His Biblical comedy "Pulp Scripture" (Original Sin/PianoFight) won the 2009 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Original Script, and grabbed eight 2009 SF Fringe Awards, including Best New Comedy. His agricultural noir play "The Apotheosis of Pig Husbandry" finished a hit run at the SF Playhouse in June. His paranoid thriller "The Position," commissioned and produced by PianoFight after William won the company's play writing competition, enjoyed a critically-acclaimed run in February at Off-Market Theater. "The Afterlife of the Mind," a brain transplantation comedy, premiered in Berkeley in the fall of 2009 (Virago Theatre Co.) and ran in Anchorage in January (Out North Theatre). William was one of twelve Bay Area playwrights chosen in 2008 for Theatre Bay Area/TheatreWorks Playwrights Showcase and has been a finalist for the Heideman Award in the National Ten-minute Play Contest. His screenplays have been optioned more than half-a-dozen times, and "Rio Sangre," a horror-western he co-wrote with Ken Karn, is currently under option by ASL management. William has also won awards from the Nantucket Short Play Competition, the Rochester International Film Festival and the Palo Alto Film Festival. He has participated in the Will Dunne Dramatic Writing Workshop since 2001, is a member of the Monday Night Playwrights Group and the Dramatists Guild. He grew up in New Mexico, went to college in New York and lives in San Francisco. His friends call him "Bill."