Free-Play Festival
JUST ANNOUNCED: APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR FREE-PLAY 2025!
PlayGround will close out the summer season with the fourth annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL. This four-week “fringe style” new works festival features productions from highly sought-after theatre artists from across the country including PlayGround artists based in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
PRODUCERS: SUBMIT HERE BY MARCH 24, 2025
Please use this form to submit your application for the non-curated 2025 Free-Play Festival (August 1-24, 2025). Applications must be received by 11:59pm on March 24, 2025. Lottery selections will be completed and announced by March 28, 2025. Free-Play Festival licensing fees for selected projects are due no later than April 30, 2025. New this year: Producers can choose to book either three or four performances as part of the festival! Details here.
Hear from past Free-Play participants:
“The Free-Play festival was a wonderful opportunity to explore my one-woman show Goddess Da From The Planet Yuronit to present my character with my original music and a colleagues artwork. The support of marketing, technical and venue space allowed the magic of page-to-stage to happen. Thank you PlayGround!
– Melinda Lopez (Free-Play, 2024)
“Despite the roadblocks I experienced behind the scenes, the Free-Play Festival made me gain more confidence in myself as a writer and a director. It made me realize to not be timid, and despite the roadblocks, the show is gonna come out fantastic. Because at the end of the day, that’s theatre, and I’m doing what I love and I love what I do!”
– Joelle Joyner Wong (Free-Play, 2024)
“The Free-Play Festival was an opportunity for me to see my first full length play fully produced–not a workshop, not a reading, but talented memorized actors performing my play with props, lighting, and sound. It was such a magical, healing experience sitting with audiences and listening to them laugh, cry, and relate to my writing.”
– Kaz Valtchev (Free-Play, 2024)
4th Annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL
Aug 1-24, 2025 at Potrero Stage & Simulcast
Available ON-DEMAND
Admission-Free (donations gratefully accepted)
TICKETS READ THE PRESS RELEASE
Schedule TBA
2024 Free-Play Festival
August 9-24, 2024
Potrero Stage & Simulcast
2023 Free-Play Festival
August 11-27, 2023
Potrero Stage & Simulcast
2022 Free-Play Festival
August 26-28, 2022
Potrero Stage & Simulcast