Ai Ebashi
Ai Ebashi is a Japanese-born playwright, illustrator and multidisciplinary theater-maker who is a winner of the Austin International Poetry Festival, the Leonard Isaacson Award Browning Monologue Contest and the Pick of the Vine Competition; a finalist of the B3 Theater Festival of Shorts and B-Street Theater’s New Comedy Play Festival; a semifinalist of the Eugene O’Neil National Playwrights Conference, 44th/45th/46th Bay Area Playwrights Festivals and the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild’s Julie Harris Playwright Award Competition. Ai’s plays have been produced or staged-read at the Aurora Theater, Brava Theater, Shelton Theater, Exit Theater, San Francisco Olympians Festival, Z-Space, Piano Fight, Theatre of Yugen, SFSU Fringe Goes Long Festival, Breach Once More, 9×9 Festival, GreenHouse Festival, Little Theater and Mile High Theater. She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from San Francisco State University where she taught Creative Writing.
