Posted on October 1, 2020
Read on to learn more about PlayGround Company Member and Alumni recent news, current happenings, and upcoming events while we prepare for the October 19th Monday Night PlayGround. On October 24, a staged reading of Evelyn Jean Pine and Katja Rivera’s play, THE INVISIBLE PROJECT, with dramaturgy by Linda Maria Giron, will be zoomed as […]
Posted on September 29, 2020
PlayGround launches this year’s rendition of their Monday Night PlayGround reading series with an invitation to the newly selected Writers Company of 45 members to create and submit scripts for this year’s first Monday Night PlayGround. Honoring the recent 100th Anniversary of women’s suffrage in the USA and as the only Monday Night PlayGround to […]
Posted on September 22, 2020
PlayGround, California’s leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub, has announced that the 27th season of its celebrated Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series will move online this year, beginning October 19 at 7pm PT and continuing on third Mondays through March 2021 (in Los Angeles, the PlayGround-LA Monday series will similarly move online, beginning […]
Posted on September 16, 2020
Same Boat Theater Collective, a diverse team of Bay Area and international playwrights, directors and actors, will present new environmental justice plays in “EarthQuake: Moving the Earth with Our Voices” a livestream immersive production of readings featuring a global cast for three shows, each at 7PM in San Francisco, London and New Delhi. Tickets are […]
Posted on September 7, 2020
We write today to offer our sincerest apologies to the cast and crew of The Rendering Cycle for the ways in which they were under served during the PlayGround Zoom Fest premiere presentation that took place in June. We are making this apology public to take responsibility for our actions and inaction and ensure we […]
Posted on September 1, 2020
Read on to learn more about PlayGround Company Member and Alumni recent news, current happenings, and upcoming events while we prepare for the first Monday Night PlayGround of the season! Company members Lyndsy Kail and Joseph Patrick O’Malley will marry on September 6th 2020! San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s Free Shakespeare at Home production of King […]
Posted on August 19, 2020
As PlayGround marks the conclusion of its 25th anniversary season, we’re proud to announce the launch of the 25th Anniversary Campaign. Through the 25th Anniversary Campaign, we seek to raise $250,000 in new and increased funding to support three timely initiatives designed to help secure PlayGround’s future and build a more equitable theatre for all: […]
Posted on August 11, 2020
To close out its historic 25th Anniversary Season and following the success of PlayGround Zoom Fest: the Bay Area’s largest online festival of streaming theater to date, PlayGround will host a live-streamed virtual gala and celebration on Monday evening, September 21. This Gala comes during a time of unprecedented and far delayed focus on prioritizing […]
Posted on August 6, 2020
On June 8, more than 300 theatre-makers contributed to the testimonial, “Dear White American Theater”, to call out the systemic racism and anti-Blackness of the American Theater. On June 9, a Bay Area regional contribution to the dialogue was launched with the activation of the “Living Document: POC Experiences in Bay Area Theater Co.”, which […]
Posted on August 6, 2020
PlayGround, the Bay Area’s leading playwright incubator, is now looking for the next generation of great directors. PlayGround will select 3-4 aspiring and/or early-career directors to apprentice with PlayGround during the upcoming Monday Night PlayGround season, kicking off October 19 via Zoom live stream, and continuing online through March 15, 2021. Directing Apprentices will each […]