Posted on May 29, 2022
PlayGround’s 26th annual FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS, performed in-person at Potrero Stage May 9-29 and simulcast, is now available streaming on-demand through June 30. A preeminent showcase for the next generation of great playwrights, the PlayGround Festival of New Works has helped launch dozens of the Bay Area’s most promising early-career writers, including five of […]
Posted on May 26, 2022
As we near the PlayGround Festival premiere presentation of Rachel Bublitz‘s new play, FUNNY, LIKE AN ABORTION, this weekend, we sat down (virtually) with the PlayGround alumna and Will Glickman Award winner to talk about her play, what she’d like audiences to know and what’s next. PlayGround: What would you like your audience to know […]
Posted on May 13, 2022
PlayGround presents Season 28 26th ANNUAL PLAYGROUND FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS May 9-29, 2022 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 6, 2022
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 13, 2022 at 7PM PDT as part of the 26th Annual PlayGround Festival of New Works. The four finalists — “Moon Eater” by Christopher […]
Posted on May 4, 2022
See what PlayGround Writers and Company Members are up to this May! Isabel Anne To is honored to be performing alongside Rosie Hallett in Rachel Bublitz’s FUNNY, LIKE AN ABORTION, directed by Giovanna Sardelli. The play is more relevant than ever, a call to action to fight for Roe v. Wade and reproductive rights. It […]
Posted on April 22, 2022
PlayGround is excited to announce two (2) immediate openings for their paid Producing Fellowships, designed to foster the next generation of leadership for the American Theatre. We are looking for Bay Area individuals passionate about theatre and looking to make an impact on the field while developing the skill set to do so for a […]
Posted on April 12, 2022
PlayGround has announced the full lineup for its 26th annual FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS, running May 9-29, returning for in-person performances at Potrero Stage, where the festival has been based since 2008, and, new this year, all simulcast online. A preeminent showcase for the next generation of great playwrights, the PlayGround Festival of New Works […]
Posted on April 12, 2022
See what PlayGround Writers and Company Members are up to this April! Rebecca Pingree‘s work will be featured in two different projects on the same day, April 25th! She will be playing Paulina in Jennifer LeBlanc’s Winter’s Passage (as part of the Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival) on 4/25 at 7pm, and her directing work […]
Posted on April 9, 2022
PlayGround has announced four bold, new plays that will receive professional developmental workshops and public staged readings live at Potrero Stage and simulcast as part of the 26th annual PlayGround Festival of New Works. The three-week festival (May 9-29) is the culmination and celebration of PlayGround’s yearly programming, cultivating exciting new voices for the American […]
Posted on April 2, 2022
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the selected plays and playwrights for our 26th annual ten-minute play fest, BEST OF PLAYGROUND 26! Please join us in congratulating first-time festival writers Monique Hafen Adams, Jennifer Le Blanc and Justin P. Lopez, and returning “Best of” playwrights Akaina Ghosh, Alanna McFall, and Eteya Trinidad. For two nights only, […]