Posted on September 1, 2023
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the 30th season of Monday Night PlayGround, the nation’s longest-running and most celebrated staged reading series, now available in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, NYC and Chicago, both in-person and simulcast. The season kicks off at Hollywood’s Broadwater Theaters on October 9, 2023 and concludes April 1, 2024 at […]
Posted on September 1, 2023
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this September! Ben Chau-Chiu is one of the understudies for SF Shakes’ Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Cymbeline, directed by fellow company member Maryssa Wanlass! He has a planned performance on September 9th for another company member Brian Herndon‘s track of Musician […]
Posted on August 17, 2023
PlayGround, California’s leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 30th season with the announcement of the Season 30 Writers Pool, 36 early-career Bay Area-based playwrights competitively selected from applications received this summer. Over the course of the upcoming 2023-24 season, these writers will generate over 150 original short […]
Posted on August 11, 2023
PlayGround has announced its PlayGround Heroes, three individuals/organizations who have made a notable impact on PlayGround and the PlayGround community over the past three decades, to be honored at the One PlayGround Gala. PlayGround’s annual fundraiser will take place in-person and online on Monday evening, September 18 at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage, Los Angeles’ Broadwater […]
Posted on August 4, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this August! See Nic Sommerfeld in “Out of Site: Sylvester, The Mighty Real”! This show will take place in the Haight where Sylvester first lived and later performed, elevating the hidden history of San Francisco’s very own international disco diva Sylvester who brought an […]
Posted on July 1, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this July! Catch Jed Parsario in SF Mime Troupe’s BREAKDOWN touring Northern California. Opens July 4th weekend-closes September, Memorial Day Weekday Weekend. Tickets available here. Kimberly Ridgeway has four exciting upcoming projects! She is performing in The Dignity Circle, Central Works Theatre (Berkeley, CA), […]
Posted on June 9, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this June! Alexis Standridge’s play, “Ball Biddies” will be performing as part of the LezWritesBTQ program with 3GirlsTheatre. Play synopsis: “The Ball Biddies are ready to play ball and break hearts. This boisterous group of older gay women play a mean game of softball […]
Posted on May 26, 2023
Don’t miss your chance to be part of PlayGround’s second annual Free-Play Festival! Applications have been extended through June 16. The Free-Play Festival is a three-week non-curated fringe-style platform to highlight new works from the national PlayGround community and beyond, offering each artist team three public performances in a state-of-the-art San Francisco theatre, in person […]
Posted on May 18, 2023
PlayGround is excited to announce immediate openings to join the 2023-2024 Producing Fellowship, designed to foster the next generation of leadership for the American Theatre. We are looking for individuals passionate about theatre and looking to make an impact on the field while developing the skill set to do so for a living. Candidates must […]
Posted on May 8, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this May! Analog Theatre (Innovator Incubator Class of 2023) will be presenting their Mask Monday on May 29th, Memorial Day. Join company members Rebecca Pingree and Jed Parsario, together with phenom actor Elissa Beth Stebbins as they host Local guest artists in a night […]