Productions
Greenhouse is an innovative partnership between SFSU’s Department of Creative Writing and School of Theatre and Dance and Z Space in San Francisco. The objective is to teach our MFA playwrights everything you need to know to self-produce your creative work. We present master classes with seasoned professionals in the following areas: grant writing and fundraising, publicity and marketing, and dramaturgy. Artistic directors from the Bay Area theatre scene discuss the submission process and offer notes from the field to you. The class culminates in a week of staged readings at Z Space during the last week of April.
Greenhouse 2025
Transformative Stories for Unsettling Times
The Creative Writing Department in partnership with Crowded Fire Theater and the School of Theatre and Dance, present this year’s Greenhouse Festival of New Plays from May 12 to May 16 in the Lab Theatre (Creative Arts 104). This year’s festival features five new plays by Master of Fine Arts student writers that bend form and genre, following characters who confront the world — and themselves — in order to live life on their own terms.
May 12 at 7 p.m.
“Rabbit Teeth” by Clara Sperow
Directed by Quinn Gilchrist
May 13 at 7 p.m.
“Let the Night Come” by Dan Cloak
Directed by Mary Ann Rogers
May 14 at 7 p.m.
“Lessons From a Jellyfish” by Harriet Heydemann
Directed by Nikki Meñez
May 15 at 7 p.m. in the Lab
“The Transfer” by Grace Hoffman
Directed by Reed Flores
May 16 at 7 p.m. in the Lab
“Alcatraz Gift Shop” by Fernando Mendoza
Directed by Hasti Jafari