William Bivins

William Bivins is an award-winning playwright whose work has been performed throughout the country. With six premieres, four of them full-length plays, he was the most produced playwright of the 2009/2010 San Francisco Bay Area season. His drama “Ransom, Texas” won Pacific Repertory's 2009/10 Hyperion Project Original Play Competition. His Biblical comedy "Pulp Scripture" (Original Sin/PianoFight) won the 2009 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Original Script, and grabbed eight SF Fringe Awards, including Best New Comedy. Other productions include "The Apotheosis of Pig Husbandry" (SF Playhouse), “The Position” (PianoFight) and "The Afterlife of the Mind" (Virago Theatre Co.). William is currently at work on two commissions: “Remaking Pussycat,” a comedy about exploitation filmmaking, for SF Playhouse, and “The Education of a Rake,” a comedy about sex and politics, for Central Works in Berkeley. He 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. 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 lives in San Francisco.