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 […]
Posted on September 1, 2021
See what PlayGround Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we look forward to the 2021-22 season! Rebecca Ennals is looking forward to Free Shakespeare in the Park in person, which is scheduled to open on Labor Day weekend in Redwood City and travel to San Francisco and Cupertino. After performing the first […]
Posted on August 26, 2021
The PlayGround Solo Performance Festival is PlayGround’s annual celebration of the best in California solo performance. Now going on its fifth year, the next Solo Fest will take place January 28-February 13, 2022, performed live at Potrero Stage and simulcast online, with nine double-bill performances over three weeks. REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS PlayGround invites submission of […]
Posted on August 6, 2021
PlayGround announces four new leadership team members for their 28th season, ushering in new associate producers to assist with the company’s mission of incubating new playwrights. These associate producers will work closely with artistic staff to curate a season that reflects the community and its valued voices. This year’s Associate Producers are: Norman Gee (he/him), […]
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 29, 2021
Last September, representatives from the PlayGround leadership, staff, board, company, writers, audience and supporters came together as the PlayGround Equity Workgroup, meeting monthly to review and address the demands of #WeSeeYouWAT and the Living Document BIPOC Equity Action Plan, and to help review and establish PlayGround policies to assist in this critical work. In March, […]
Posted on July 18, 2021
“I think I will come up with my own story, if you would like to join me.” – Sasha, Sasha and the Angelier PlayGround has announced the recipient of its first-ever PlayGround People’s Choice New Play Commission: Christian Wilburn. First offered through PlayGround’s sister company PlayGround-LA beginning in 2018, the inaugural PlayGround People’s Choice New […]
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 22, 2021
PlayGround has officially selected four new Producing Fellows — Lindsey Abbott, Daniel Benitez, Caroline Portante, and Wallace Yan — to join the PlayGround Producing Team for the 2021-22 Season! The paid Producing Fellowship is designed to foster the next generation of leadership for the American Theatre, with a priority towards individuals from historically marginalized communities. […]
Posted on June 17, 2021
On Monday, September 20, PlayGround will host its annual fundraising gala, commemorating twenty years of the June Anne Baker Prize and the incredible legacy of the twenty women playwrights who’ve received the Prize since 2002. Initiated by PlayGround benefactor John H. Gilman in memory of his late wife, the June Anne Baker Prize recognizes the […]