Posted on May 26, 2021

Jim Kleinmann

Inside the Zoom Fest: The 25th Annual Best of PlayGround!

Last year’s first-ever PlayGround Zoom Fest laid the groundwork for PlayGround to continue to deeply invest in their commitments to accessibility, equity, and artistic innovation. This year’s Zoom Fest is no different, featuring full-length digital premieres, dynamic developmental readings, evenings of bite-sized storytelling and all under a radically-accessible admission-free structure!  This year’s Best of PlayGround […]

Posted on May 7, 2021

Jim Kleinmann

PlayGround Zoom Fest 2021 Playbill

Welcome to the second annual PlayGround Zoom Fest – a Festival of New Works – a leading showcase of new plays and playwrights. This year’s festival is once again online due to the continued COVID-conscious gathering restrictions affecting our theatre community. We have 9 distinct events this year in a 3 week period from May 10th […]

Posted on May 4, 2021

Jim Kleinmann

Company in the News May-2021

See what PlayGround Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we prepare for the PlayGround Zoom Fest this month! Christopher Robin Magee and The Moonrisers are engaging in some spring cleaning and that means taking a long look at some of the unused, undeveloped and experimental scripts we’ve written over the last year. […]

Posted on April 17, 2021

Jim Kleinmann

PlayGround Zoom Fest Developmental Readings Announced!

PlayGround has announced the 4 selected plays that will be developed with professionally-presented readings as part of this year’s Zoom Fest! The three-week online Festival (May 10-30) is the culmination and celebration of PlayGround’s yearly programming, cultivating exciting new voices for the American Stage and presenting fully-staged digital premieres alongside dynamic new works in development. […]

Posted on April 2, 2021

Jim Kleinmann

Company in the News Apr-2021

See what PlayGround Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we prepare for the PlayGround Zoom Fest next month! Madeleine Butler was invited to be part of the writers’ room for THE SINS & SECRETS OF TABARD LAKE, a serial radio drama created by Three Girls Theatre Company. Described as “pandemic noir, ” […]

Posted on March 31, 2021

Jim Kleinmann

Liam Vincent Joins PlayGround as Director of Growth

PlayGround, the Bay Area’s leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to announce that longtime Company Member Liam Vincent will be joining the PlayGround staff effective April 1 in the newly-created position of Director of Growth. Working with PlayGround Artistic Director & Co-Founder Jim Kleinmann and the PlayGround Board of Directors, he will […]

Posted on March 24, 2021

Jim Kleinmann

Working Toward Building An Anti-Racist Theatre

On August 6 last year, PlayGround acknowledged to the leaders of #WeSeeYouWAT, the Living Document, and our community as a whole “our role and responsibility to eliminate white supremacy, actively build an anti-racist institution, end harmful behaviors and practices, and ensure PlayGround is a safe and welcoming space for all theatre practitioners to build on […]