Posted on March 22, 2021
Over the past year, nearly two-dozen donors helped raise $200,000 toward PlayGround’s 25th Anniversary Campaign, designed to help secure PlayGround’s future and build a more equitable theatre for all. With an ambitious $250,000 goal, the campaign will increase investment in three timely efforts: artist compensation, artistic initiatives, and arts facilities. But with the 25th Anniversary […]
Posted on March 20, 2021
The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to Madeline Puccioni for her short play, 1913, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on March 15 on Zoom. Congratulations, Madeline! Courtesy of Madeline, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! 1913 by Madeline Puccioni […]
Posted on March 13, 2021
PlayGround presents Season 27 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “FEARLESS“ March 15, 2020 7pm PT via Zoom Live Stream For What Fears the Taster by Christopher Robin Magee Directed by Jim Kleinmann Empress………………………………………….………………Karen Offereins Taster………………….………………………………………….……Ezra Reaves Give Me The Sky By Anne Yumi Kobori Directed by Claire Ganem Billie Frechette…………………….……………………………Shannon Davis Johnnie Dillinger………………….…………………………Joseph O’Malley Melvin Purvis…………………………………………………………Chris […]
Posted on March 12, 2021
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 2021-22 Writers Pool. Members of the Writers Pool are invited to submit for the Monday Night PlayGround […]
Posted on March 10, 2021
Following the success of last year’s first-ever PlayGround Zoom Fest, PlayGround’s 2021 Festival of New Works returns to the digital realm with even more radical accessibility! The three-week online Festival (May 10-30) will feature the digital premieres of PERFECT by Jonathan Luskin (he/him) and SAPIENCE by Diana Burbano (she/her), the YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT: a full […]
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 March 5, 2021
See what PlayGround Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we get ready for the March 15th Monday Night PlayGround on Zoom! Madeline Daly Puccioni’s MONTICELLO 2020, which asks what if… Thomas Jefferson had retained the paragraph in his Declaration of Independence which would have ended America’s slave trade with the British, and […]
Posted on February 26, 2021
PlayGround Fellowship August 1, 2021 – July 31, 2022. PlayGround is excited to announce the next round of applications for their paid Producing Fellowships designed to foster the next generation of leadership for the American Theatre. We are looking for Bay Area individuals passionate about theatre and looking to make an impact on the field […]
Posted on February 23, 2021
In the age of internet challenges, the Bay Area’s leading playwright incubator, PlayGround, is introducing a challenge of their own. On the tail end of our 25th anniversary, we are introducing the PlayGround 25-Day Challenge! The rules are simple: 100 Donors must contribute $250 (or more) in just 25 days to match a $25K challenge […]
Posted on February 19, 2021
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”― Nelson Mandela Fear is one of the oldest and strongest human emotions, but it is the act of facing said fear that great stories are born from. This challenge of courage or perhaps even foolhardiness is what 36 San […]