William Bivins has three--count 'em, three!--shows up for the summer of 2012.

First up: "Dude," a one-act comedy about a straight guy's reluctance to be best man at his college buddy's gay wedding. "Dude" will be part of the line-up for Marriage Equality Plays, an evening of short one-acts benefiting the American Foundation for Equal Rights. One night only! June 11 at BATS Improv's Bayfront Theater in San Francisco. For more info and tickets go to Marriage Equality Plays.

Next up: "Celia Sh*ts," a short comedy about what happens when all the mystery goes out of a relationship. Part of Pint-Sized Plays, a bar-specific one-act play festival. Opens July 16 at Cafe Royale in San Francisco. For more info go to San Francisco Theatre Pub.

Last, but not least: "The Education of a Rake," a full-length comedy about sex, politics and one man's crusade to gain equal rights for women... but not before seducing them. (Full Description under Plays.) Opens July 28 at Central Works in Berkeley. For more info and tickets go to Central Works.

Central Works commissions Bivins to write The Education of a Rake, a new comedy about sex and politics based on Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Tale. Opens July 28, 2012, Berkeley, CA. (Description under Plays.)

You can read the article here.

SF Playhouse commissions William Bivins to write a romantic comedy. Working title: Remaking Pussycat. (Description under Plays.)

The Position opens at Theatre Asylum on September 30, 2010.
Buy tickets now at Brown Paper Tickets

You can read the article and interview here.

• The San Francisco Chronicle
• SF Theater Blog
• My Cultural Landscape
• Talkin' Broadway
• San Francisco Bay Times
• The Idiolect
• SF Bay Guardian
• SF Examiner

William Bivins wins the 2009 San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. for Pulp Scripture (in the Theatres 99 seats or less category).

Keep an Eye on: William Bivins, Playwright
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William Bivins wins Pacific Repertory's 2010 Hyperion Project Original Play Competition: Ransom, Texas to go up at PacRep in November. Info will be available here.

Pulp Scripture nominated for 2 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards:
Best Original Script
Best Ensemble

• SF Weekly Review
• SFGate Review
• Bay Times

Full text from The Guardian's Review:
"From the ready pen of local playwright William Bivins comes a witty dystopic thriller too good not to be (essentially) true: In the USA's not-too-distant future, after "the Great Downturn," there's 80% unemployment, the population lives by scavenging, despair is in the water and air, and there are no more dogs (those little four-legged ambassadors of hope). But there are still one or two job openings in the ultra-powerful, totemic, life-giving corporate universe of The Concern. A search narrows the candidates down to six (types played with palpable soul by Kate Jones, Asher Lyons, Gabi Patacsil, Eric Reid, Dan Williams, and Laura Zimmerman). They're flown to an exclusive island, paradisial in its accommodations, totalitarian in its panoptic surveillance and haughty obscurantism. Greeted by icy hot Mrs. Radcliffe (Jessica Cortese) and her deliriously agreeable man-servant Baylian (a joyously loopy Even Winchester)—both nattily futuristic in coordinated turquoise outfits—the candidates learn there are no rules but two over the course of the evaluation, and no clue to what's being evaluated. The contest begins and, in PianoFight's high-spirited low-budget production, it makes no difference how familiar the themes or scenario. Adeptly suggesting classics new and hoary, from "Survivor" and "The Apprentice" to "The Most Dangerous Game," "The Position" never feels merely derivative, let alone dull or predictable. It's inspired, rebellious lovemaking with our doom-clouded moment, engrossingly directed by PianoFight's Christy Crowley. (Avila)"

'The Afterlife of the Mind' at Out North Theatre, Anchorage, January 29th. Click Here For More Info

For more reviews and features about William's plays:

Chronicle feature: Link
Berkeley Daily Planet review of "Afterlife": Link
Alameda Sun review of "Afterlife": Link
Bay Times review of "Afterlife": Link
Bay Times review of "Pulp": Link

Is Bivins the most produced local playwright of the current Bay Area theater season? Judge for yourself: Link

"The Apotheosis of Pig Husbandry" premieres at SF Playhouse May 22nd. Click Here For More Info

"The Position" premieres at Off-Market Theater February 4th. Click Here For More Info

San Francisco Chronicle calls Bivins a "local hot commodity" whose plays "bristle with an offbeat irreverent inventiveness." For full review of "Pulp Scripture" and "The Afterlife of the Mind": SF Chronicle Review

Best New Comedy
Best Box Office
6 Sold Out Awards (one for each performance)

"This play was great!.... I don't know why something this good has to be considered as 'fringe' - this was a main stage production from beginning to end." -Vox Theatricum

"Blasphemy! Sacrilege! Heresy! I love it! A perfectly executed, well paced, well written script. Tight, top level performers, capable and committed. Go see it." -nEO-sURRELAIST agent #1

Pulp Scripture Returns for One Performance Only as part of "Best of the Fringe" at EXIT Theatre, 156 Eddy Street, San Francisco.
Tickets $20, a benefit for the 2010 San Francisco Fringe Festival.
Tickets at www.theexit.org or leave a reservation at 415-673-3847.

Pulp Scripture 7pm Saturday October 3rd EXIT Theatre, 156 Eddy Street in downtown San Francisco 2 blocks from the Powell Street BART Station.
Bible stories they didn’t teach you in Sunday school. Sisters get Dad Drunk, have Sex with him!... Human Sacrifice at Father-son Camping Trip!... Widow Becomes Hooker, Tricks Father-in-law into Getting her Pregnant!

HERE'S WHAT THE AUDIENCE SAID ...
“Hilarious and Bawdy, a little like the Old Testament meets Monty Python meets Leave it to Beaver”
“Blasphemy! Sacrilege! Heresy! I love it!”
“A raucous , laugh filled evening at an x rated bible camp”
“Brilliant script, acting, direction, costuming, lighting, EVERYTHING!”