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, […]
Posted on February 3, 2023
“只要你心诚志坚,念念回首处,既是灵山.” Zhǐyào nǐ xīn chéng zhì jiān, niàn niàn huíshǒu chù, jìshì língshān. “Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.” – The Monkey King, from Journey to the West, a classic Chinese mythology story Playwright incubator PlayGround has announced the […]
Posted on January 27, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers and Company Members are up to this February! Barbara Anderson‘s The Tree had a successful run in NYC and opened at Santa Cruz Actors Theatre.. will run for next three weeks. Learn more here. Michael Barrett Austin will be playing the central character of Daniel Cavanaugh in SF Playhouse’s spring production […]
Posted on January 1, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers and Company Members are up to this January! Cindy Goldfield just finished her 17th season of A CHRISTMAS CAOL at ACT, and is in rehearsal for IN EVERY GENERATION (January 19-Feb 12) at TheatreWorks. Learn more here. Ross Valley Players’ RAW series (Ross Alternative Works) will present a reading of Ruth […]