Posted on May 1, 2025
Welcome to the first of a series of “interviews” with the playwrights featured in the 2025 Festival! Unlike traditional playwright interviews, we asked our writers to reply to our questions with either a single word, an image, an obvious lie, or a rhyming couplet (or whatever they wanted if they weren’t in the mood). This should be fun […]
Posted on May 1, 2025
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this May! Ben Chau-Chiu steps into the role of DHH in David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face at Shotgun Players. The show opens May 10 with pay-what-you-can previews and runs through June 8. Don’t miss this timely and provocative exploration of identity and representation. Purchase […]
Posted on April 18, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO – PlayGround has announced the call for the 7th 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 historically marginalized or excluded communities. The multi-year intensive incubation program provides access and opportunity for emerging theatre […]
Posted on April 7, 2025
The full lineup for PlayGround’s 29th annual Festival of New Works, a preeminent showcase for the next generation of great playwrights, has been announced! This year’s festival, all performed live at Potrero Stage May 6-25 and simulcast, will feature premiere presentations of Matthew Morishige’s Work/Shoot and Jessica June Rowe’s The Passing Storm; as well as […]
Posted on April 4, 2025
PlayGround Festival: Kick-Off & Playwrights Panel Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM PDT – Potrero Stage Admission is free, Reserve your ticket here Hear from five of the playwrights featured in this year’s Festival of New Works! Join Artistic Director Jim Kleinmann in conversation with PlayGround playwright alumni Jediah Craig, Carl Andrew Johnson, Daniel […]
Posted on April 1, 2025
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this April! Nancy Carlin directs the world premiere of Buttercup by J.D. Murphy, inspired by Guy de Maupassant’s Boule de Suif. This new work runs April 3-13 in San Rafael, featuring Lizzie Calogero as Sister Walter of the Lamentable Poor and Norman Gee as […]
Posted on March 28, 2025
PlayGround is excited to announce immediate openings to join the 2025-26 Producing Fellowship, designed to foster the next generation of leadership for the American Theatre. We are looking for individuals passionate about theatre and looking to make an impact on the field while developing the skill set to do so for a living. Candidates must […]
Posted on March 21, 2025
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share the lineup for Best of PlayGround(SF) ‘25. Originally developed among thirty-six new short plays through PlayGround’s Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series, these plays will receive a two-night encore performance on May 24 & 25, 2025 at 7pm PT at Potrero […]
Posted on March 20, 2025
The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to George Rose for his play, Nature’s Final Solution, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on March 17th live at the David Brower Center and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, George! Courtesy of George, we’re pleased to share the first two pages […]
Posted on March 16, 2025
PlayGround presents Season 31 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND “Sci Fi” March 17th, 2025 7pm PT David Brower Center & Simulcast Acknowledging the Legacy of the Land We Inhabit PlayGround acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush (RAH-my-toosh) Ohlone (oh-LOW-nee) and Lisjan (lih-SHAH-n) Ohlone, the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula […]