Richard Fouts is the playwright and Suze Allen the director of "The Birthday Lottery," at Z Space in San Francisco, March 29th through April 1st. The play concerns the first Vietnam draft lottery of students in 1969, and is set in a fraternity house as the numbers are being called. Those with low numbers will no longer have student deferments; those with high numbers will be free of the draft. The Nixon era lottery, created to even the playing field, took the anti-war movement to new heights. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky,

 

Z Space Website [1]

The Birthday Lottery Website [2]

An extended version of this interview can be found a a Bay Area Theater podcast [3]

Also: Review of "A Number" by Caryl Churchill, at Aurora Theatre's Harry's Upstage venue through April 22, 2018.

[1] http://www.zspace.org/birthdaylottery

[2] https://www.thebirthdaylotteryplay.com/

[3] https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/interview-richard-fouts-suze-allen-the-birthday-lottery-at-z-space/