Each season, PlayGround develops thirty-six original short plays by approximately two dozen emerging professional playwrights through our monthly Monday Night PlayGround series. Of these, seven plays and playwrights are selected each year to receive PlayGround’s Emerging Playwright Award and full production of the short plays as part of The Best of PlayGround festival, running for four weeks in May. The festival also includes staged readings of new full-length works, developed as part of PlayGround’s commissioning programs.
The 13th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival
May 7-31, 2009
Thu-Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm
Thick House
1695 18th Street (off Arkansas Street)
San Francisco
John Jacob O'Reilly Smitherton's Bid to Save the World by Erin
Bregman, directed by Jim Kleinmann
Wednesday by Daniel Heath, directed by Barbara Oliver
All Thumbs by Aaron Loeb, directed by Tracy Ward
Seen by Evelyn Jean Pine, directed by Amy Mueller
Gymnopédie #1 by Kenn Rabin, directed by Molly Noble
Net by Geetha Reddy, directed by Mark Routhier
Truffaldino Says No by Ken Slattery, directed by Chris
Smith
Ensemble: Cindy Goldfield*, Brian Herndon*, Danielle Levin*, Lisa Morse*,
Soren Oliver*, Michael Phillis, Aaron Wilton*
* Member, Actors' Equity Association
For the list of the 2009 Young Playwrights Project contest finalists, click here.
To view video clips of past festivals, click here.
Past Festivals
- Festival 2009
- Festival 2008
- Festival 2007
- Festival 2006
- Festival 2005
- Festival 2004
- Festival 2003
- Festival 2002
- Festival 2001
- Festival 2000
- Festival 1999
- Festival 1998
- Festival 1997