Posted on May 1, 2025
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this May! Ben Chau-Chiu steps into the role of DHH in David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face at Shotgun Players. The show opens May 10 with pay-what-you-can previews and runs through June 8. Don’t miss this timely and provocative exploration of identity and representation. Purchase […]
Posted on April 1, 2025
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this April! Nancy Carlin directs the world premiere of Buttercup by J.D. Murphy, inspired by Guy de Maupassant’s Boule de Suif. This new work runs April 3-13 in San Rafael, featuring Lizzie Calogero as Sister Walter of the Lamentable Poor and Norman Gee as […]
Posted on March 1, 2025
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this March! 3Girls Theatre’s 2025 New Works Festival celebrates fresh new plays by women+ playwrights whose work has been in development through 3GT’s Reading Series. The festival runs from March 7–16 at KALW, 220 Montgomery Street, SF, with performances on Fridays and Saturdays at […]
Posted on September 20, 2024
“The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness.” – George Washington, January 9, 1790 Join us in kicking off our 30th Anniversary Season with a Monday Night full of the stories you thought you knew and the stories you never knew – until now – inspired […]
Posted on September 17, 2024
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 30th Anniversary Season – PlayGround’s signature Monday Night PlayGround, the nation’s longest-running and largest staged reading series – performed in-person and simulcast in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City and Chicago, October 14, 2024 through April 7, […]
Posted on September 1, 2024
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this September! Ben Chau-Chiu is the assistant director of Cal Shakes’ AS YOU LIKE IT, directed by Elizabeth Carter. Also working on the production are fellow PlayGround company members Rebecca Ennals, Leontyne Mbele-Mbong, Jed Parsario, Stacy Ross, Jeunee Simon, and Chris Steele! It’s very […]