Company in the News November-2022

See what PlayGround-SF Writers and Company Members are up to this November!

Kristy Lin Billuni‘s play, “A Distinct Gay Vibe” will appear November 17 & 18 at the Eagle NYC in National Queer Theatre’s Kinky Pint Sized Plays, a night of short new plays set in a leather bar with enough booze, kink, and theatrics to get you really drunk. Learn more here.

Michael Barrett Austin will be playing Fred Hastings in Center Rep’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the Dean Lesher Center in Walnut Creek December 8-22. Learn more here.

Mark of the Minotaur, by Sharon Eberhardt, which premiered at the Playground Solo Festival 2022, will be at The Marsh Berkeley Nov 5 – December 10, Saturdays at 7:30. Learn more here.

Ruth Kirschner‘s play THE FAMILY TREE was picked by Ross Valley Players RAW program for a reading scheduled for February 5, 2023. More details to come.

Danielle Levin is part of this year’s Ground Floor Residency at Berkeley Rep. There, she’ll be developing her play _Whole Cloth_. Learn more here.

Alanna McFall is coordinating with publisher Atthis Arts on a Kickstarter, promoting their 2022 titles and funding an audiobook recording of her 2019 debut novel, The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circus, performed by professional narrator C. S. E. Cooney. Learn more here.

Ross Peter Nelson‘s ten-minute play “Sweet Dreams” will appear in the Last Chance New Play Fest in Helena Montana from Nov 4-13. Montana Short Cuts is an evening of ten-minute works by Montana writers presented during the Fest. Learn more here.

Karen Offereins will be performing in an in-person staged reading for SPARC in Livermore. Their love for Safeway weekly ad has nothing to do with this. She can be seen in Two Degrees by Tira Palmquist, which is about Emma Phelps, a paleoclimatologist, focusing on ice in Greenland. In drilling and studying ice core samples, she sees firsthand the symptoms of our changing planet, which makes the need to act all the more crucial and urgent. In addition to her growing sense of urgency for the planet, Emma, as a recent widow, experiences grief that compounds itself with each passing month. Now she’s been asked to come to Washington D.C. to testify in a Senate Committee regarding climate change legislation, and in this intersection of science and politics, of politics and the personal, she finds more than just a little is breaking up under the strain of change. Two Degrees is directed By Leslie A. Martinson and has three staged reading performances on November 4, 5, and 6 at 7pm at SPARC Studio in Livermore. Proof of Vaccination and ID will be required upon entry to LIVE performance. Photos of vaccination cards on a mobile phone are acceptable. Masks highly recommended, but not required. Learn more here.

Evelyn Jean Pine’s short opera about interruption, nada, written with Norwegian composer, Tze Yeung Ho, premieres at Strange Trace Opera’s Stencils Festival on November 4. There will be an online screening and Zoom reception on Sunday, November 20 at 2 PM PT and nada will be available to stream for 72 hours in advance. Trailer here. ZOOM tickets here.