Posted on September 17, 2024

Joey Reyes

PlayGround’s 30th Anniversary Season, Writers Pool, Performance Schedule & More!

PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 30th Anniversary Season – PlayGround’s signature Monday Night PlayGround, the nation’s longest-running and largest staged reading series – performed in-person and simulcast in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City and Chicago, October 14, 2024 through April 7, […]

Posted on September 7, 2024

Jonathan Josephson

PlayGround Gala Playbill Sep-2024

Welcome to the 2024 four-city PlayGround 30th Anniversary Gala! Tonight, PlayGround marks its third decade of incubating new plays and playwrights by hosting simultaneous parties in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco.  The PlayGround 30th Anniversary Gala will celebrate the company’s monumental history of launching over 350 significant new playwrights and over […]

Posted on September 1, 2024

Joey Reyes

Company in the News Sep-2024

See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this September! Ben Chau-Chiu is the assistant director of Cal Shakes’ AS YOU LIKE IT, directed by Elizabeth Carter. Also working on the production are fellow PlayGround company members Rebecca Ennals, Leontyne Mbele-Mbong, Jed Parsario, Stacy Ross, Jeunee Simon, and Chris Steele! It’s very […]

Posted on August 26, 2024

Jonathan Josephson

PlayGround’s 31st Season Writers Pool, Performance Schedule & More!

PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 30th anniversary season. The season announcement coincides with the release of the 2024-25 Writers Pools, 144 early-career playwrights in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, who will participate in PlayGround’s signature incubator program, […]

Posted on August 8, 2024

Jonathan Josephson

3rd Annual PlayGround Free-Play Festival Playbill

PlayGround presents Season 30 3rd ANNUAL PLAYGROUND FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL Aug 9-25, 2024 Live at Potrero Stage + Simulcast On-Demand thru September 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 […]

Posted on August 1, 2024

Zoe Chien

Company in the News August-2024

See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this August! Norman Gee directs and performs in INVENTORY/ James Baldwin Abroad with the Oakland Public Theater this August, honoring Baldwin’s centennial. Artistic Director of O.P.T., and Associate Producer with PlayGround-SF, Norman also works with other companies including A.C.T., SF-Shakes, Word for Word, Lorraine […]