Join the 2021-22 PlayGround Writers Pool!

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 2021-22 Writers Pool. Members of the Writers Pool are invited to submit for the Monday Night PlayGround short play staged reading series. On the first Friday of the month, PlayGround releases a prompt. Writers then have four-and-a-half days to write an original ten-minute play inspired by the prompt. Of the submitted scripts, 6 get chosen for a fully-staged, partly-teched, script-in-hand reading led by leading local directors and actors under our new Actors Equity contract, on third Mondays, October-March. Writers not chosen in any given month can participate in PlayGround Recess, with the opportunity to hear their work read aloud by professional actors and receive peer feedback in a private setting. Submissions are due by 11:59pm on Wednesday, June 30, 2021. BIPOC, trans/gender non-conforming & differently-abled writers are encouraged to apply!

Previous members of the Writers Pool have included Lauren Yee, Aaron Loeb, Christopher Chen, Geetha Reddy, and Jonathan Spector, among others.

POOL REQUIREMENTS

To be eligible, writers must reside within the nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Area. To apply for a place in the 2021-22 writers pool, please submit your short (ten-page max) double-spaced script (previously produced and unproduced scripts eligible) as a Portable Document Format (.pdf) attachment within the following form: https://forms.gle/rSnoBFDKLs2bo6yQ8. Excerpts from longer works are not accepted but short plays that meet the above requirements and are derived from a longer work are accepted. BIPOC, trans/gender-non-conforming & differently-abled are encouraged to apply. Submissions are due by 11:59pm on June 30, 2021. The 2021-22 PlayGround Writers Pool will be announced on or before August 23, 2022 and all selected writers must attend a mandatory Company Meeting on Sunday, August 30th.

Applications must be received by 11:59pm PT on Wednesday, June 30, 2021. The script must have the playwright’s name, address, email and phone number at the top of the first page and include a detailed cast breakdown, and all pages must be numbered. The script title must be labeled by Lastname_Firstname_Title.

There will be a mandatory meeting for the Writers Pool on Sunday, August 29th, 2021, 10am-12pm. Writers Pool members must commit to submitting for at least five of the six Monday Night PlayGrounds in any season. The submission of a script to Monday Night PlayGround grants PlayGround the exclusive option to stage the play as part of the Monday Night PlayGround and, should it be so selected, to present the world premiere as part of Best of PlayGround and the non-exclusive right to publish the script in the “Best of PlayGround” anthology.

The submission form can be found HERE.

For any questions not answered above, email to info@playground-sf.org.