Posted on June 2, 2023
PlayGround Presents Season 29 One PlayGround Festival Multi-day Festival and Conference Celebrating the National PlayGround Community June 2-4, 2023 7pm PT Live at Potrero Stage + Simulcast & On-Demand 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 […]
Posted on June 2, 2023
Join us this weekend, June 2-4, for the inaugural One PlayGround Festival, a special multi-day festival and conference, celebrating the national PlayGround community (SF, LA, NYC and Chicago), featuring artist panels, workshops, and performances, live at Potrero Stage and simulcast! For more information or to register for festival/conference events, click here. The festival kicks off this […]
Posted on May 26, 2023
Don’t miss your chance to be part of PlayGround’s second annual Free-Play Festival! Applications have been extended through June 16. The Free-Play Festival is a three-week non-curated fringe-style platform to highlight new works from the national PlayGround community and beyond, offering each artist team three public performances in a state-of-the-art San Francisco theatre, in person […]
Posted on May 24, 2023
This weekend is the PlayGround Festival premiere presentation of Lauren Gorski‘s new play, THE BRAMFORD! Playwright Lauren Gorski has a Master’s in Professional Writing with emphasis in Stage and Screen from the University of Southern California. She writes fiction, poetry, screenplays, and stageplays. Her fiction and poetry have been featured in “apt”, “Badlands”, “Jersey Devil […]
Posted on May 19, 2023
This weekend is the PlayGround Festival premiere presentation of Christian Wilburn‘s new play, STARLIGHT! STARLIGHT is about a young girl’s learning to live with her chronic illness. Their’s magic, and Specters and other worlds, but underneath all of it, that’s the story. Playwright Christian Wilburn is a San Francisco based writer whose work blends the […]
Posted on May 18, 2023
PlayGround is excited to announce immediate openings to join the 2023-2024 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 May 12, 2023
PlayGround presents Season 29 27th ANNUAL PLAYGROUND FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS May 8-28, 2023 Live at Potrero Stage + Simulcast On-Demand thru June 30 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 […]
Posted on May 8, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this May! Analog Theatre (Innovator Incubator Class of 2023) will be presenting their Mask Monday on May 29th, Memorial Day. Join company members Rebecca Pingree and Jed Parsario, together with phenom actor Elissa Beth Stebbins as they host Local guest artists in a night […]
Posted on May 6, 2023
PlayGround has announced the winners of this year’s Young Playwrights Contest. The venerated playwright incubator will debut the four selected short plays from rising Bay Area young playwrights on Friday, May 12th at 7PM PDT as part of the 27th Annual PlayGround Festival of New Works. The four winners are “Pleased as Peach” by Arisa […]
Posted on May 4, 2023
UPDATE (5/4): As of today, we’re 44% of the way to our $10k festival sponsorship goal. A huge thanks to all of this year’s festival sponsors. Become a festival sponsor today and help us cross the finish line! PlayGround is part of an amazing community of artists—playwrights, directors, actors, designers—and audiences who come to support […]