Posted on November 30, 2021
As the lights go up, Peet’s and Starbucks roll out their snowflake-embossed cups and ugly sweaters re-emerge from the closet, it’s clear… the holiday season has begun! PlayGround offers its own take on the holidays with a new round of Monday Night PlayGround, featuring original short plays inspired by your favorite (and perhaps not-so-favorite) holiday […]
Posted on November 15, 2021
“Seen many Native American Plays lately? Neither have we. But we know that can change.” – Matt Kizer, Founder/Artistic Director, Native Writers’ Theater New theatre company Native Writers’ Theater debuts as part of PlayGround’s 3rd annual Innovators Showcase with “An Evening of New Native Plays”, November 23, 24 and 26 at 7pm PT, with an […]
Posted on November 14, 2021
Guidelines for the 2022 Innovator Incubator cohort have been announced and the deadline to apply is January 17, 2022. Sign up for a 1-hour information session, December 12-19. PLAYGROUND INNOVATOR INCUBATOR 2022 RFP The PlayGround Innovator Incubator is a multi-year intensive incubation program to support theatrical innovation and the launch of new innovative theatrical production companies. PlayGround will competitively […]
Posted on November 5, 2021
See what PlayGround Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this November! Jerome Joseph Gentes, board member and longtime PlayGround member, is producing American Sign Language (ASL) versions of LGBT playwright Harrison David Rivers’ HOLD ME THE FORGOTTEN WAY MONOLOGUE CYCLE. The videos will be released and made available for free viewing on Monday, […]
Posted on October 29, 2021
“Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long.” -Shakespeare Following this month’s successful Season 28 opening, Bay Area playwright incubator PlayGround has announced the prompt for the next Monday Night PlayGround staged reading event. Thirty-six San Francisco Bay Area writers had just four-and-a-half days to generate their original scripts inspired by the prompt […]
Posted on October 17, 2021
PlayGround presents Season 28 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “REBIRTH“ October 18, 2021 7pm PT Freight & Salvage + Simulcast 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 the San Francisco Peninsula and East Bay, respectively. As the […]
Posted on October 6, 2021
For the last twenty years, PlayGround and the broader community have seen the impact that the June Anne Baker Prize has had in uplifting early-career women writers; and, now, we want to take this a step further and invest in next-gen women leadership across every theatre discipline. The facts: While representing 51% of the population and the […]
Posted on September 30, 2021
PlayGround has announced the programming lineup for the 3rd annual INNOVATORS SHOWCASE, featuring new works by the 2021 Innovator Incubator Cohort: Analog Theatre, The Chikahan Company, The Forum Collective, Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project, Latinx Mafia, Native Writers’ Theater, Poltergeist Theatre Project, and Theatre Cultura. The Innovator Incubator was launched in 2019 to foster new innovative […]
Posted on September 24, 2021
“Perhaps that is where our choice lies—in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.” – Elana K. Arnold On the eve of the return to in-person theatre and the company’s expansion to New York, Bay Area playwright incubator PlayGround has chosen the prompt of […]
Posted on September 8, 2021
PlayGround, California’s leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub, has announced its 28th season, including the return of the celebrated Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series on third Mondays*, Oct-Mar, in-person this year at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage and live simulcast (October 18, 2021-March 21, 2022). The season also includes an extensive array of new […]