Posted on July 31, 2026
Join us for the ONE PLAYGROUND GALA (2026) Celebrating the June Anne Baker Prize 25th Anniversary September 14, 2026, 5:30pm-7:30pm PT American Conservatory Theater, 415 Geary St, San Francisco, CA 94102 Tickets: $150 or review Host levels PlayGround will honor four theatre luminaries at our annual four-city gala on Monday, September 14th. In conjunction with […]
Posted on July 21, 2026
PlayGround has announced the 2026-27 Producing Fellows, a vibrant and diverse class of four next-gen theatre leaders drawn from across the country and who will work with PlayGround’s artistic staff and national producing teams over the next year in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Fellows gain hands-on experience in the […]
Posted on June 29, 2026
See what PlayGround-SF Writers and Company Members are up to this month including: Linda Ayers-Frederick, Greg Lam, Rebecca Pingree, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Geetha Reddy, Emilie Talbot and Maury Zeff! Greg Lam play The Shrewing of the Tame, Maury Zeff short play Girls Just Want to Have Patents, and Bridgette Dutta Portman play Once Upon a Dream will […]
Posted on June 16, 2026
PlayGround will honor four theatre luminaries at our annual four-city gala on Monday, September 14th. In conjunction with the 25th anniversary of PlayGround’s June Anne Baker Prize, one of the nation’s longest-running play commissions dedicated to the next generation of promising women/non-binary playwrights, PlayGround will recognize significant theatre artists and producers who have elevated womxn […]
Posted on June 1, 2026
See what PlayGround-SF Writers and Company Members are up to this month including: Monique Hafen Adams, Charisse Loriaux, Hector Zavala, Hechale Productions, Miyoko Sakatani, Greg Lam, Saffron Quinn, Jacinta Kaumbulu, and Eiko Moon-Yamamoto! Héctor Zavala and Hechale Productions’ PUENTES, is a bilingual youth acting intensive created by our dear in Mexico City for young artists […]
Posted on May 22, 2026
PlayGround is pleased to announce the recipients of the 25th Anniversary June Anne Baker Prize, one of the nation’s longest continuous running awards and commissions for early-career female/non-binary playwrights. New this year, PlayGround has expanded the Prize to include one playwright from each of the four regions where the company operates: Esther Banegas Gatica (Los […]
Posted on May 15, 2026
PlayGround presents Season 32 30th ANNUAL PLAYGROUND FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS May 15th-31st, 2026 Live at Potrero Stage + Simulcast On-Demand through June 7th 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, 2026
PlayGround closes out the summer season with the fifth annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL, July 31st – August 23rd, 2026, at Potrero Stage and simulcast. This four-week “fringe style” new works festival features 21 productions and 61 performances by talented theatre artists from across the country including PlayGround artists based in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New […]
Posted on May 8, 2026
Welcome to the fourth installment of our Playwright Spotlight series – 2026 Festival of New Works! Today we’re featuring PlayGround-CH alum Anne and her play Disloyal, which will receive a staged reading at Potrero Stage and Simulcast on May 31st at 3pm PT. Advance reservations are required: visit playground-sf.org/festivalreadings for details. What was the seed of your play? […]
Posted on May 6, 2026
PlayGround is pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Young Playwrights Contest, an open-submission competition that provides winning high school playwrights with a professional staged reading during the PlayGround Festival of New Works. The winning plays and playwrights of this year’s contest are Tales of the City: A Waymo Carol by Rover Dijkstra (Galileo […]