Posted on August 26, 2024
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 30th anniversary season. The season announcement coincides with the release of the 2024-25 Writers Pools, 144 early-career playwrights in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, who will participate in PlayGround’s signature incubator program, […]
Posted on August 1, 2024
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this August! Norman Gee directs and performs in INVENTORY/ James Baldwin Abroad with the Oakland Public Theater this August, honoring Baldwin’s centennial. Artistic Director of O.P.T., and Associate Producer with PlayGround-SF, Norman also works with other companies including A.C.T., SF-Shakes, Word for Word, Lorraine […]
Posted on July 18, 2024
PlayGround has announced the 2024-25 Producing Fellows, a vibrant and diverse class of seven next-gen theatre leaders drawn from across the country and who will work with PlayGround’s artistic staff and national producing teams over the next year in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Fellows gain hands-on experience in the […]
Posted on July 1, 2024
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this July! Lizzie Calogero will be playing a delightful assortment of characters in the SF Mime Troupe’s summer show, American Dreams. We’re free in Bay Area parks throughout July and August, and we’re loud and funny! Not silent mime! Info available here. Jonathan Spector‘s […]
Posted on June 7, 2024
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this June! Jeunée Simon has the pleasure of performing in a new play by Naomi Iizuka, Garuda’s Wing, a mesmerizing blend of personal intimacy and international intrigue! Garuda’s Wing is a magical experience, a spellbinding trance that begins in Borneo and takes us back […]
Posted on May 3, 2024
Get to know Anne Yumi Kobori, playwright of APERTURES OF LOVE IN TIMES OF WAR by (a Festival Premiere Presentation) May 11 & May 12 7pm PT – Reserve Tickets Here Potrero Stage & Simulcast/On-Demand thru May 31 Admission: $0-$50 (donations gratefully accepted) or Festival Sponsorship APERTURES OF LOVE IN TIMES OF WAR follows Ed, a Mexican-American […]
Posted on May 3, 2024
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this May! Rebecca Pingree will ring in the final performance of SF Shakes on Tour As You Like It at the San Francisco Public Library May 11th at 2pm, perform in the west coast premiere of A Thousand Natural Shocks at Potrero Stage May […]
Posted on April 1, 2024
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 2024-25 Writers Pool. Members of the Writers Pool are invited to submit for the Monday Night PlayGround […]
Posted on March 29, 2024
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this April! April Ballesteros will be Assistant Stage Managing the World Premiere of Sign My Name To Freedom written by Michael Gene Sullivan and directed by Elizabeth Carter at ZSpace. Presented by San Francisco Bay Area Theater Company. Runs March 29, 2024 to April […]
Posted on March 19, 2024
Casting has been announced for PlayGround’s 28th annual Festival of New Works Premieres: Anne Yumi Kobori’s Apertures of Love in Times of War (May 11-12, 2024) and Jacob Marx Rice’s A Thousand Natural Shocks (May 18-19, 2024). These works, one historical and the other contemporary but both steeped in the fraught ideal of the “American Dream”, […]