Join the 2023-24 PlayGround Writers Pool!

Are you a Bay Area-based early-career or aspiring professional playwright? Have you ever wanted to see your plays performed on stage by leading local professional actors? Do you respond well to deadlines?

PlayGround is seeking applications for our 2023-24 Writers Pool. Members of the Writers Pool are invited to submit for the Monday Night PlayGround short play staged reading series. PlayGround releases a prompt on a Friday morning and writers have four-and-a-half days to write an original ten-minute play inspired by the prompt. Of the submitted scripts, 6 get chosen for a fully-staged, partly-teched, script-in-hand reading led by leading local directors and actors under a SAG-AFTRA New Media Agreement, on third Mondays, October-March. Writers not chosen in any given month can participate in PlayGround Recess, with the opportunity to hear their work read aloud by professional actors and receive peer feedback in a private setting. BIPOC, trans/gender non-conforming & differently-abled writers are encouraged to apply!

Previous members of the Writers Pool have included Lauren Yee, Christopher Chen, Geetha Reddy, and Jonathan Spector, among others.

POOL REQUIREMENTS

To be eligible, writers must reside within the nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Writers Pool members must commit to submitting for at least five of the six Monday Night PlayGrounds in any season. The submission of a script to Monday Night PlayGround grants PlayGround the exclusive option to stage the play as part of the Monday Night PlayGround and, should it be so selected, to present the world premiere as part of Best of PlayGround and the non-exclusive right to publish the script in the “Best of PlayGround” anthology.

All selected writers must attend a mandatory meeting for the Writers Pool on Sunday, August 27th, 2023 (time to be confirmed).

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

To apply for a place in the 2023-24 writers pool, please submit a 10-page max, double-spaced script as a Portable Document Format (.pdf) attachment. Both previously produced and unproduced scripts are eligible. The script must have the playwright’s name, address, email and phone number at the top of the first page and include a detailed cast breakdown, and all pages must be numbered. The script title must be labeled by Lastname_Firstname_Title.

Excerpts from longer works are not accepted but short plays that meet the above requirements and are derived from a longer work are accepted. BIPOC, trans/gender-non-conforming & differently-abled playwrights are encouraged to apply.

Applications must be received by 11:59pm PT on Friday, June 30, 2023. The 2023-24 PlayGround Writers Pool will be announced before August 27, 2023.

The submission form can be found HERE.

For any questions not answered above, email to info@playground-sf.org.