Posted on May 8, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this May! Analog Theatre (Innovator Incubator Class of 2023) will be presenting their Mask Monday on May 29th, Memorial Day. Join company members Rebecca Pingree and Jed Parsario, together with phenom actor Elissa Beth Stebbins as they host Local guest artists in a night […]
Posted on May 6, 2023
PlayGround has announced the winners of this year’s Young Playwrights Contest. The venerated playwright incubator will debut the four selected short plays from rising Bay Area young playwrights on Friday, May 12th at 7PM PDT as part of the 27th Annual PlayGround Festival of New Works. The four winners are “Pleased as Peach” by Arisa […]
Posted on May 4, 2023
UPDATE (5/4): As of today, we’re 44% of the way to our $10k festival sponsorship goal. A huge thanks to all of this year’s festival sponsors. Become a festival sponsor today and help us cross the finish line! PlayGround is part of an amazing community of artists—playwrights, directors, actors, designers—and audiences who come to support […]
Posted on March 3, 2023
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 […]
Posted on March 3, 2023
The people have spoken… The February People’s Choice Award goes to Kristy Lin Billuni for her play The Apple Tree, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on February 20th live at the Freight & Salvage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Kristy! Courtesy of Kristy, we’re pleased to share the first two […]
Posted on February 24, 2023
“Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you’re bravely working.” – Rumi. Playwright incubator PlayGround in partnership with Planet Earth Arts has announced the prompt for the sixth and final Monday Night PlayGround staged reading event of its 29th season and the 7th annual Planet Earth Arts New Play Festival, […]
Posted on February 22, 2023
PlayGround and Poltergeist Theatre Project announce a limited run of GASLIT: A Trans Drag Parody co-created by Chris Steele and Sean Owens, March 9-10 at Potrero Stage and simulcast, following its sold-out run at Cutting Ball Theater this month. Admission is free (donations gratefully accepted and directly support the artists). For more information or to […]
Posted on February 10, 2023
只要你心诚志坚,念念回首处,既是灵山.” Zhǐyào nǐ xīn chéng zhì jiān, niàn niàn huíshǒu chù, jìshì língshān. “Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.” – The Monkey King, from Journey to the West, a classic Chinese mythology story PlayGround has announced and officially opened […]
Posted on February 4, 2023
The people have spoken… The January People’s Choice Award goes to Daniel Martinez, Jr. for his play Changing Inward, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on January 16th live at the Freight & Salvage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Daniel! Courtesy of Daniel we’re pleased to share the first two pages […]
Posted on January 31, 2023
AfroSolo Theatre Company, a sanctuary for Black art, culture, intellect, and entertainment, announces their latest partnership with playwright incubator PlayGround as part of PlayGround’s sixth annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in Bay Area solo performance, running January 27 to February 12 presented live at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage and simulcast […]