Posted on October 4, 2018
Back by popular demand, The Obligation, Roger Grunwald’s riveting, immersive one-person stage drama, returns to Potrero Stage for a four-week limited engagement, October 11-November 4, 2018. Written and performed by internationally acclaimed actor Roger Grunwald and directed by Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle award winner Nancy Carlin, this celebrated work interweaves the stories of a […]
Posted on October 4, 2018
Read on to learn more about PlayGround Company Member and Alumni recent news, current happenings, and upcoming events. Laylah Muran de Assereto’s full length BORDERLINE receives a staged reading at the SF Olympians Festival on Oct. 5th. Laylah is also directing B8’s production of REPRORIGHTS! A Collection of Short Plays written by various local playwrights, […]
Posted on October 3, 2018
PlayGround kicks off its 25th season on Monday, October 15, 8 PM at Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Roda Theatre with an all-new season of the celebrated Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series. The topic for the first round, announced last Friday, is “JUSTICE”. “A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with […]
Posted on August 30, 2018
See what PlayGround Writers and Alumni are up to, as we get ready for the PlayGround and 24 Hour Plays Inaugural 24 HOUR PLAYS:BAY AREA! Rachel Bublitz has been busy as a beaver with over four hundred script submissions under belt so far for 2018! All the submissions have been paying off too, because she’s […]
Posted on August 9, 2018
See what PlayGround Writers and Alumni are up to, as we get ready for next season’s Monday Night PlayGround! Aaron Loeb, Victoria Chong Der, Ruben Grijalva, Garret Jon Goenveld, Katie May, and Marisela Treviño Orta will be featured in The 24 HR. PLAYS: BAY AREA, celebrating 25 years of PlayGround on September 17 at Berkeley […]
Posted on August 2, 2018
PlayGround, the Bay Area’s (and now Los Angeles’) leading playwright incubator, will mark the opening of its twenty-fifth season with a special one-night gala celebration and performance, and the launch of a bold new partnership. In collaboration with NYC-based The 24 Hour Plays®, PlayGround will present the inaugural The 24 Hour Plays: Bay Area, featuring […]
Posted on July 20, 2018
PlayGround, the Bay Area’s leading playwright incubator, is now looking for the next generation of great directors. PlayGround will select 3-4 diverse aspiring and/or early-career directors to apprentice with PlayGround during the upcoming Monday Night PlayGround season, kicking off October 15 at Berkeley Rep, and continuing through March 18, 2019. Directing Apprentices will each assistant […]
Posted on July 18, 2018
See what PlayGround Writers and Alumni are up to, as we get ready for next season’s Monday Night PlayGround! Mercedes Segesvary is celebrating graduating from Cal State LA with an MFA in Dramatic Writing for TV/Film/Theatre! On July 30, her play, IF ONLY IT WERE TRUE, will receive a reading as part of the #MeToo […]
Posted on June 6, 2018
We recently sat down with playwright Bill Bivins to talk about his new play, Scapegoat, one of the two world premiere productions in this year’s PlayGround Festival of New Works at Potrero Stage (the other being Julie Jigour’s Bright Shining Sea), performing in rotating rep through June 17. PlayGround: When did you first start writing […]
Posted on June 6, 2018
We recently sat down with playwright Julie Jigour to talk about her new play, Bright Shining Sea, one of the two world premiere productions in this year’s PlayGround Festival of New Works at Potrero Stage (the other being Bill Bivins’ Scapegoat), performing in rotating rep through June 16. PlayGround: When did you first start writing […]