Administrative History
Scope and Content
Indexing Terms
Access
Processing Information
Acquisition Information
Preferred Citation
Publication Rights
Creator:
Bay Area Playwrights Festival
Title: Bay Area Playwrights Festival Collection
Date (inclusive): 1976-1993
Extent:
4.4 linear feet
Abstract: Founded by Robert Woodruff in 1976, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival is an annual event focusing on writing and workshops
led by eminent playwrights. The collection contains festival materials including scripts, promotional materials, photographs,
audio tapes, and video recordings from 1976-1993.
Physical location: Researchers should contact Special Collections to request collections, as many
are stored offsite.
Repository:
University of California, Davis. General Library. Dept. of Special
Collections.
Davis, California 95616-5292
Collection number: D-078
Language of Material: Collection materials in English.
Administrative History
Founded by Robert Woodruff in 1976, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival is an annual event focusing on writing and workshops
led by eminent playwrights.
Scope and Content
The collection contains festival materials including scripts, promotional materials, photographs, audio tapes, and video recordings
from 1976-1993.
Arrangement of the Collection
The collection is arranged in five series: Scripts, Promotional Materials, Correspondence, Photographs, and Audiovisual Materials.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public
access catalog.
Bay Area Playwrights Festival--Archives
Drama festivals--San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Theater--United States--20th century
American drama--20th century
Access
Collection is open for research.
Processing Information
Sara Gunasekara processed this collection and created and encoded this finding aid with assistance from student employee Michelle
Xie.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Norah Holmgren in 1994.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Bay Area Playwrights Festival Collection, D-078, Department of Special Collections, General Library,
University of California, Davis.
Publication Rights
Copyright is protected by the copyright law, chapter 17, of the U.S. Code. All requests for permission to
publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of
California, Davis as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the
copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.