Posted on August 4, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this August! See Nic Sommerfeld in “Out of Site: Sylvester, The Mighty Real”! This show will take place in the Haight where Sylvester first lived and later performed, elevating the hidden history of San Francisco’s very own international disco diva Sylvester who brought an […]
Posted on July 7, 2023
PlayGround closes out the summer season with the second annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL, August 11-27, at Potrero Stage and simulcast. The festival features the first-ever workshop of Melina Cohen-Bramwell’s PLEASE DON’T SLOW ME DOWN (Aug 11-13 7pm PDT), and the premieres of Akaina Ghosh’s CHARACTER ASSASSINATION (Aug 18-20 7pm PDT) and Ipsheeta Furtado’s DISTANCED DATES (Aug […]
Posted on July 1, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this July! Catch Jed Parsario in SF Mime Troupe’s BREAKDOWN touring Northern California. Opens July 4th weekend-closes September, Memorial Day Weekday Weekend. Tickets available here. Kimberly Ridgeway has four exciting upcoming projects! She is performing in The Dignity Circle, Central Works Theatre (Berkeley, CA), […]
Posted on June 9, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this June! Alexis Standridge’s play, “Ball Biddies” will be performing as part of the LezWritesBTQ program with 3GirlsTheatre. Play synopsis: “The Ball Biddies are ready to play ball and break hearts. This boisterous group of older gay women play a mean game of softball […]
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 […]