Company in the News July-2022

See what PlayGround Writers and Company Members are up to this July!

Lizzie Calogero will be playing Alice (and others, including 19th Century robber baron Cleonus Taintworthy) in the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s summer show BACK TO THE WAY THINGS WERE. The show opens July 4th in Dolores Park, and plays in Bay Area parks. Learn more here.

Evelyn Jean Pine‘s pandemic comedy, 7 SECRETS OF TEACHING ONLINE, receives 6 performances as a developmental staged reading at Theatre 33 in Salem, OR, July 13-17. iPOETRY just published her sonnet, “The List,” on Medium. Learn more here.

Madeleine Butler has been accepted again this year into the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive, to be held virtually from July 14 through 24, 2022.

Cindy Goldfield is playing Carlotta (I’m Still Here) in FOLLIES at SF Playhouse. Opens July 6 and runs through September 10. Get tickets here.

Rachel Bublitz is thrilled to have her play RIPPED published with Original Works Publishing. RIPPED won the 2020 Will Glickman Award for best premiere play in the Bay Area, and the script is available to order now, here! In other exciting publishing news, Rachel’s new play for young performers, BIZ TOWN, will be published in two lengths with Playscripts. Her full-length, TIP TOP TRIANGLE was selected for Plan-B Theatre’s Script-In-Hand reading series this Fall. Finally, with the Supreme Court’s decision to over-turn Roe V. Wade, Rachel wants college students to have access to her play, FUNNY LIKE AN ABORTION, as a rallying cry to spark on-campus action. If royalties are a barrier, she invites students to reach out to her directly to request a royalty waver. FUNNY LIKE AN ABORTION is a call to action, and it’s time to get loud.

Nancy Carlin is directing DEATHTRAP by Ira Levin for The Jewel Theatre in Santa Cruz. It will run July 6-31. Learn more here.

Tracy Ward is directing HOW TO LET YOUR LOVER DIE by Elana Dykewomon at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival in July. Check it out here.

Lisa Gaye Thompson‘s play LUCY IN THE CLOUDS will be featured in Dragon Production’s short play incubator for intersectional stories. Check it out on crowdcast Sunday July 17th from 2pm. There’s a feedback session following.

Diane Sampson‘s short play, THE TALE OF THE SLEEPING CUTIE, has been published in Disability Forward, a compendium of short plays with disabled characters. Her play, first written for Monday Night PlayGround, was then expanded into a full-length musical and produced at Potrero Stage (then Thick House) in 2014. Another of her short plays, ON SHAKY GROUND, will be part of the Crafton Hills College New Works Festival later in July.

Garret Jon Groenveld‘s play THE HUMMINGBIRDS will receive its US and English language premiere this August at New Jersey Repertory Theatre. It was previously the winner of the GAP Festival from Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre and winner of the 2012 Internationalist Playwrighting Prize with productions in Spain, Mexico and ongoing in Bucharest, Romania. Learn more here.

Louis Parnell will be appearing as Dimitri Weissman in FOLLIES at the San Francisco Playhouse. Performances start June 30th and continue through September 10th Tues-Sun Eve and Sat-Sun matinees. For tickets and further information contact the SF Playhouse website.

Jennifer Le Blanc recently directed LIFE IS A CABARET, a pirate themed musical revue, now playing at SPARC (formerly the Livermore Shakespeare Festival). Musical direction by Lindsey Schmeltzer. Performances are at the beautiful Darcie Kent Estate Winery. SPARC is also producing 39 Steps and Comedy of Errors. Get tickets here.