Applications for 2nd Annual Free-Play Festival Extended through June 16!

Don’t miss your chance to be part of PlayGround’s second annual Free-Play Festival! Applications have been extended through June 16.

The Free-Play Festival is a three-week non-curated fringe-style platform to highlight new works from the national PlayGround community and beyond, offering each artist team three public performances in a state-of-the-art San Francisco theatre, in person and online, to reach a national audience. The festival will run August 10-27, 2023 at Potrero Stage and simulcast. Last year’s inaugural Free-Play Festival featured the return of Joyful Raven’s BREED OR BUST, following her hit run at the Hollywood Fringe, the premiere of Lana Richards’ TIPS FOR NERVOUS FLIERS and a staged reading of J. Lynn Jackson’s LUCÍA FUENTES, presented by Miyoko Sakatani and Playland Productions.

Applications for this year’s festival are due via Google form by 11:59pm PT, June 16. Selections will be announced on June 23.

Benefits

• Selected teams/projects will receive three performance slots in the festival
• All performances will take place in a state-of-the-art theatre, Portrero Stage, and will be simulcast live
• PlayGround provides a Technical Director, House Manager, Board Operator, and a Streaming Broadcaster
• PlayGround offers co-marketing, production management consultation (1 hr), and box office services

Guidelines

• Selections will be determined by lottery
•  Applications must be submitted by and include at least one member of the PlayGround Company, Staff, Alumni or active Incubator cohort at the leadership level
• Projects must culminate in the off-book public presentation of a new work
• Performances in the Free-Play Festival must be 90 minutes or less with setup/strike of no more than a half-hour on either side
• Each project will be scheduled a 2.5 hour technical rehearsal between August 7 and August 13, 2023
• Projects must participate in PlayGround’s radical accessibility program, including free admission (with PWYC donation option) and online simulcast
• Projects involving union artists will have the opportunity to be presented under PlayGround’s SAG-AFTRA New Media Agreement (deferred) and all performers, regardless of union status, would then be expected to sign a SAG-AFTRA agreement; projects are solely responsible for the terms of artist compensation and for fulfilling those terms
• Upon selection, projects will be responsible for remitting to PlayGround a $450 facility licensing fee (due by May 31)
• PlayGround will split box office proceeds 50/50 with producing teams.

To apply, click here.

Questions? Contact Jim at jim@playground-sf.org.