Posted on October 12, 2023

Jim Kleinmann

PlayGround’s 5th annual Innovators Showcase / Nov 6-26

PlayGround has announced the programming lineup for the 5th annual INNOVATORS SHOWCASE, featuring new works by the 2023 Innovator Incubator Cohort, Analog Theatre, The Chikahan Company, Native Writers’ Theater, Oakland Public Theater, Network Effects Theater Company, and Poltergeist Theatre Project, along with past incubator companies Kunoichi Productions, Latinx Mafia, and Theatre Cultura. The Innovator Incubator […]

Posted on October 1, 2023

River Bermudez-Sanders

Company in the News October 2023

See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this October! April Ballesteros is serving as the lead Stage Manager for Golden Thread Production’s ReOrient Festival opening October 16th at Potrero Stage! Tickets to the ReOrient Festival available here. April is also appearing in (trans)formada this month at Shotgun Players as part of […]

Posted on September 16, 2023

Jim Kleinmann

PlayGround Gala Playbill (Sep-2023)

Welcome to the 2023 One PlayGround Gala! This year’s gala celebrates the national scope of PlayGround’s programming in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, and Chicago. With the launch of PlayGround-Chicago last year, Monday Night PlayGround—the signature short play program which has run successfully in the Bay Area for 30 years—is now produced […]

Posted on September 1, 2023

Christy Spence

Company in the News September 2023

See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this September! Ben Chau-Chiu is one of the understudies for SF Shakes’ Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Cymbeline, directed by fellow company member Maryssa Wanlass! He has a planned performance on September 9th for another company member Brian Herndon‘s track of Musician […]

Posted on August 21, 2023

Jim Kleinmann

Behind the Scenes: Ipsheeta Furtado’s DISTANCED DATES

The second annual PlayGround Free-Play Festival, a fringe-style free-admission three-week showcase of new works by Bay Area artists, concludes this week with the premiere of Ipsheeta Furtado’s DISTANCED DATES, presented by Network Effects Theater, August 25-27 at 7pm PDT at Potrero Stage and simulcast. We recently spoke with Ipsheeta to get a behind-the-scenes look at […]

Posted on August 17, 2023

Jim Kleinmann

PlayGround’s 30th Season Writers Pool, Performance Schedule & More!

PlayGround, California’s leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 30th season with the announcement of  the Season 30 Writers Pool, 36 early-career Bay Area-based playwrights competitively selected from applications received this summer. Over the course of the upcoming 2023-24 season, these writers will generate over 150 original short […]