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 […]
Posted on April 14, 2023
PlayGround has announced the full lineup for its 27th annual FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS, running May 8-28, in-person at Potrero Stage, where the festival has been based since 2008, and simulcast online. A preeminent showcase for the next generation of great playwrights, the PlayGround Festival of New Works has helped launch dozens of the Bay […]
Posted on April 14, 2023
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the selected playwrights and short plays for our 27th annual ten-minute play fest, BEST OF PLAYGROUND 27! Please join us as we showcase first-time festival writers Danny Martinez, Jr., Matthew Y. Morishige, Vicky Pham, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Michael Tuton, and Alexis Standridge. For two nights only, PlayGround will celebrate these […]
Posted on April 1, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this April! Molly Olis Krost will have a staged reading of their play NANAY (previously developed at the 26th annual PlayGround Festival of New Works) at Macha Theatre’s Distillery New Works Festival in Seattle, WA. The reading will be April 15th at 7pm. Get […]
Posted on March 3, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers and Company Members are up to this March! Isabel Anne To will be in the world premiere of Gordon Dahlquist’s TEA PARTY, directed by Erin Merritt, and playing March 2-19 at The Rueff at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater. The play is a taut, fast-paced thriller about the likely outcomes of violent political […]
Posted on March 3, 2023
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 2023-24 Writers Pool. Members of the Writers Pool are invited to submit for the Monday Night PlayGround […]
Posted on February 24, 2023
PlayGround has announced the 5th annual cohort for the Innovator Incubator program. The Innovator Incubator was launched in 2019 to foster new innovative theatre companies and productions with a strong commitment to BIPOC representation. The multi-year intensive incubation program provides access and opportunity for emerging theatre companies, by offering financial support, fiscal sponsorship, free space […]
Posted on February 24, 2023
“Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you’re bravely working.” – Rumi. Playwright incubator PlayGround in partnership with Planet Earth Arts has announced the prompt for the sixth and final Monday Night PlayGround staged reading event of its 29th season and the 7th annual Planet Earth Arts New Play Festival, […]