Posted on August 5, 2020
Read on to learn more about PlayGround Company Member and Alumni recent news, current happenings, and upcoming events! Jonathan Luskin’s play, PERFECT, has been selected for the Catalyst 2020 Festival at UC Davis. JanLee Marshall, artistic director of Oakland’s B8 Theatre Company, will direct a developmental workshop collaborating with University students, alumni, and staff. The […]
Posted on July 6, 2020
Read on to learn more about PlayGround Company Member and Alumni recent news, current happenings, and upcoming events! Same Boat Theater Collective, the Bay Area’s first environmental justice theater company and a participant in the inaugural PlayGround Innovator Incubator, presents their debut production, the world premiere of THE EMERYVILLE HORROR: A TALE OF ENVIRONMENTAL VENGEANCE […]
Posted on July 3, 2020
Are you missing live theatre?? PlayGround Zoom Fest, the nation’s largest fully-digital new play festival (originally presented via Zoom live-stream May 11-June 19), is now available on-demand through September 1! The Zoom Fest features readings and premiere presentations of more than 25 short and full-length plays as well as a Zoom Town Hall on PlayGround […]
Posted on June 12, 2020
Monday Night PlayGround has been a core of PlayGround’s playwright development program since the company’s inception. The process of writing a play is unique to every playwright, but in order to refine that process, repetition is essential. Practicing the format of a short play forces a playwright to essentialize their style and eschew distractions from […]
Posted on June 11, 2020
In the American Theatre, we have long been guided by the principle that we can “change the world, one play at a time.” What if it was also one day at a time with the same play? On Friday, Juneteenth, (June 19th), theatre communities around the country provided their response to the current moment – […]
Posted on June 5, 2020
One of PlayGround’s core mission tenants is to produce art that is relevant to and reflects the world around it. From the topics that we choose for our Monday Night PlayGround series, to prioritizing and maintaining diversity in our writers group and production teams, PlayGround believes that theatre is a vital catalyst for activism and […]
Posted on June 4, 2020
In light of curfew orders throughout the Bay Area, PlayGround has moved the showtime of its Saturday, June 6 opening night performance of Genevieve Jessee’s The Rendering Cycle to 5pm PT. The change in time will allow the artists and crew participating in the show from out-of-home locations to comply with local curfews currently in […]
Posted on May 31, 2020
PlayGround is committed to diversity and equity, to uplifting marginalized voices, both on and off the stage. We stand in solidarity, in anger, and in compassion with the family of George Floyd, with the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and those protesting in Minneapolis, the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and all around the country. We will show this […]
Posted on May 30, 2020
Landing a full-length commission of a brand new play is one of the toughest things a playwright can do, and also one of the most exhilarating. It often takes years to a decade of development before a play has grown from its seed of an idea into a full-bloomed script ready for official debut before […]
Posted on May 25, 2020
One of the most vulnerable parts of any writer’s process is the tenuous moment when a draft moves from a semi-private experience, shared intimately with perhaps a few trusted confidants (lovers and friends, maybe a discerning colleague or two), to the highly anticipated and often jitter-inducing “developmental reading”. Having spent so long with their characters […]