Posted on December 2, 2022
PlayGround presents Season 29 A Very Hitchcock Christmas December 10 & 11, 2022 7pm PT Live at Potrero Stage + Simulcast & On-Demand Acknowledging the Legacy of the Land We Inhabit PlayGround acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush (RAH-my-toosh) Ohlone (oh-LOW-nee) and Lisjan (lih-SHAH-n) Ohlone, the original inhabitants of […]
Posted on June 2, 2022
PlayGround Announces Return to In-Person Gala Celebrating ONE PLAYGROUND: Bay Area, Los Angeles, NYC & Chicago on September 19, 2022 / 5:30pm-8pm PDT (7:30pm-10pm CDT / 8:30pm-11pm EDT). In-Person at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage with satellites in LA, NY, Chicago & throughout the country. On Monday, September 19, PlayGround will host its annual fundraising gala, […]
Posted on August 2, 2021
PlayGround, San Francisco’s leading playwright incubator, is now looking for the next generation of great directors. PlayGround will select 3-4 diverse aspiring and/or early-career directors to apprentice with PlayGround during the upcoming Monday Night PlayGround season, kicking off on October 18th and continuing through March 2022. Directing Apprentices will assistant direct for a minimum of […]
Posted on July 30, 2021
See what PlayGround Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we look forward to the 2021-22 season! Mary Baird has 3 upcoming events: Golden Stories of Our Past: Women’s Suffrage: September 10th at The Nevada Theatre, Nevada City (here’s the trailer); An Evening With Ellen: September 18th at The Odd Fellows in Nevada […]
Posted on July 9, 2021
See what PlayGround Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we look forward to the 2021-22 season! Lynn Aylward directed “What You Don’t See When You Look at Me,” a performance by Rising Voices, a theater group of justice-involved young women, at PianoFight Oakland on June 25, the first time the theater was […]
Posted on June 4, 2021
PlayGround Zoom Fest Premiere Presentations (originally presented via Zoom live-stream May 10-30), are now available for on-demand viewing through June 13! These fully-developed and produced Zoom Fest Premiere Presentations were the highlight of this year’s new works festival. They are now available for free on-demand viewing, and we invite you to make a donation via […]
Posted on June 4, 2021
See what PlayGround Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we wrap up PlayGround Zoom Fest and look forward to the 2021-22 season! Robert Sicular is proud to appear in an episodic reading of Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida” presented by The Humanities Institute and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. This free event (registration required) will […]
Posted on April 2, 2021
PlayGround, a premiere playwright incubator and theatre community hub, has created paid development opportunities for local playwrights in San Francisco since 1994 and Los Angeles since 2012… and, as of this October, now New York City! This latest expansion of PlayGround’s mission to support the development of new voices for the theatre, with a deep […]
Posted on March 5, 2021
The people have spoken… The February People’s Choice Award goes to Eteya Trinidad for her short play, LA PLANCHADA, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on February 15 on Zoom. Congratulations, Eteya! Courtesy of Eteya, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! LA PLANCHADA By […]
Posted on January 29, 2021
The people have spoken… The January People’s Choice Award goes to Christian Wilburn for his short play, BETRAYAL AT THE ZONE OF DEATH, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on January 18 on Zoom. Congratulations, Christian! Courtesy of Christian, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! […]