Posted on April 14, 2023
PlayGround has announced the full lineup for its 27th annual FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS, running May 8-28, in-person at Potrero Stage, where the festival has been based since 2008, and simulcast online. A preeminent showcase for the next generation of great playwrights, the PlayGround Festival of New Works has helped launch dozens of the Bay […]
Posted on April 14, 2023
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the selected playwrights and short plays for our 27th annual ten-minute play fest, BEST OF PLAYGROUND 27! Please join us as we showcase first-time festival writers Danny Martinez, Jr., Matthew Y. Morishige, Vicky Pham, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Michael Tuton, and Alexis Standridge. For two nights only, PlayGround will celebrate these […]
Posted on April 1, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this April! Molly Olis Krost will have a staged reading of their play NANAY (previously developed at the 26th annual PlayGround Festival of New Works) at Macha Theatre’s Distillery New Works Festival in Seattle, WA. The reading will be April 15th at 7pm. Get […]
Posted on March 31, 2023
The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to Jediah Craig for his play La Tierra del Olvido, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on March 20th live at the Freight & Salvage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Jediah! Courtesy of Jediah, we’re pleased to share the first two […]
Posted on March 19, 2023
PlayGround Presents Season 29 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND PLANET EARTH ARTS NEW PLAY FESTIVAL Topic: “GRIEF AND HOPE FOR PLANET EARTH“ March 20, 2023 7pm PT Live at Freight and Salvage + Simulcast & On-Demand Acknowledging the Legacy of the Land We Inhabit PlayGround acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush […]
Posted on March 3, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers and Company Members are up to this March! Isabel Anne To will be in the world premiere of Gordon Dahlquist’s TEA PARTY, directed by Erin Merritt, and playing March 2-19 at The Rueff at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater. The play is a taut, fast-paced thriller about the likely outcomes of violent political […]
Posted on March 3, 2023
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 2023-24 Writers Pool. Members of the Writers Pool are invited to submit for the Monday Night PlayGround […]
Posted on March 3, 2023
The people have spoken… The February People’s Choice Award goes to Kristy Lin Billuni for her play The Apple Tree, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on February 20th live at the Freight & Salvage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Kristy! Courtesy of Kristy, we’re pleased to share the first two […]
Posted on February 24, 2023
PlayGround has announced the 5th 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 BIPOC representation. The multi-year intensive incubation program provides access and opportunity for emerging theatre companies, by offering financial support, fiscal sponsorship, free space […]
Posted on February 24, 2023
“Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you’re bravely working.” – Rumi. Playwright incubator PlayGround in partnership with Planet Earth Arts has announced the prompt for the sixth and final Monday Night PlayGround staged reading event of its 29th season and the 7th annual Planet Earth Arts New Play Festival, […]