Posted on April 1, 2022
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 2022-23 Writers Pool. Members of the Writers Pool are invited to submit for the Monday Night PlayGround […]
Posted on March 25, 2022
PLAYWRITING MASTERCLASSApril 2nd, 2022 / 12pm-1:30pm On April 2nd, from 12pm-1:30pm, PlayGround is offering a comprehensive Playwriting Masterclass via zoom for high school-aged students interested in learning how to write plays, with an emphasis on the ten-minute play. This class is a perfect primer for those planning to submit for this year’s Young Playwrights Contest […]
Posted on March 4, 2022
See what PlayGround Writers and Company Members are up to this March! Amy Glazer‘s new film THE SURROGATE, based off of PlayGround alumna Patricia Cotter‘s play of the same name and co-written by Glazer, Cotter and Lynn Webb, premiered as part of the Frameline Film Festival in 2020 and is now showing on Amazon Prime. […]
Posted on March 4, 2022
PlayGround has announced the 4th annual cohort for the Innovator Incubator program. The Innovator Incubator was launched in 2019 to foster new innovative theatre companies and productions with a strong commitment to BIPOC representation. The multi-year intensive incubation program provides access and opportunity for emerging theatre companies, by offering financial support and mentorship to bolster […]
Posted on February 28, 2022
“Ring around the rosie / pocket full of posies / Ashes! Ashes! / We all fall down!” – English Nursery Rhyme PlayGround has announced the topic for its final round of Monday Night PlayGround of the season, taking place on March 21, 7pm PST, live at Freight & Salvage and simulcast online. The evening will […]
Posted on February 3, 2022
See what PlayGround Writers and Company Members are up to this February! Ross Peter Nelson will be directing George Brant’s award-winning play GROUNDED for Raven’s Feather Productions in Helena, MT. The show runs February 17-March 5. Learn more at https://www.ravensfeather.org/tickets Jonathan Spector’s THE MUCH I KNOW was post-poned at Aurora until September (Arg! Omicron!). In […]
Posted on January 28, 2022
“What the world needs now is love, sweet love. It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love. No not just for some, but for everyone.” – Songwriters: Hal David, Burt Bacharach. Original Recording Artist: Jackie DeShannon. PlayGround has announced the topic for its next […]
Posted on January 21, 2022
PlayGround has announced and officially opened the submission window for their 14th annual Young Playwrights Contest, a showcase celebrating the best of budding new voices for the stage. Four finalists will be selected from plays submitted by high schoolers from any of the 9 Bay Area counties, inspired by the theme “LORE,” a favorite from […]
Posted on January 14, 2022
See what PlayGround Writers and Company Members are up to this January! Michael J. Asberry is going into tech rehearsal for SWEET WATER TASTE with the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre (Orlando Shakes), opening on 1/7/22. Evelyn Jean Pine’s short play, OAKLAND 1982: YOU, ME, AND RiCKEY, will be the first play ever published in the online […]
Posted on December 28, 2021
“Keep moving, for it may well be that the greatest song has not yet been sung, the greatest book has not been written, the highest mountain has not been climbed. This is your challenge! Reach out and grab it… but there is something we can learn from the broken grammar of that mother, that we […]