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, […]
Posted on April 1, 2022
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 2022-23 Writers Pool. Members of the Writers Pool are invited to submit for the Monday Night PlayGround […]
Posted on April 1, 2022
The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to Reg Clay for his play This Old Man, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on March 21st live at the Freight & Salvage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Reg! Courtesy of Reg we’re pleased to share the first two pages […]
Posted on March 25, 2022
PLAYWRITING MASTERCLASSApril 2nd, 2022 / 12pm-1:30pm On April 2nd, from 12pm-1:30pm, PlayGround is offering a comprehensive Playwriting Masterclass via zoom for high school-aged students interested in learning how to write plays, with an emphasis on the ten-minute play. This class is a perfect primer for those planning to submit for this year’s Young Playwrights Contest […]
Posted on March 18, 2022
PlayGround presents Season 28 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “CHILD’S PLAY: ADAPTED NURSERY RHYMES“ March 21, 2022 7pm PT Live at Freight & 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 (RAH-my-toosh) Ohlone (oh-LOW-nee) and Lisjan (lih-SHAH-n) Ohlone, […]
Posted on March 4, 2022
See what PlayGround Writers and Company Members are up to this March! Amy Glazer‘s new film THE SURROGATE, based off of PlayGround alumna Patricia Cotter‘s play of the same name and co-written by Glazer, Cotter and Lynn Webb, premiered as part of the Frameline Film Festival in 2020 and is now showing on Amazon Prime. […]
Posted on March 4, 2022
The people have spoken… The February People’s Choice Award goes to Lisa Gaye Thompson for her play Three Centimeters Per Second, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on February 21st live at the Freight & Salvage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Lisa! Courtesy of Lisa we’re pleased to share the first […]