Posted on July 9, 2022
PlayGround, a leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub helping to uplift historically underrepresented voices for the stage since 1994, has announced four new play commissions for PlayGround’s 29th Season (2022-23). They include three winners of the Best of PlayGround People’s Choice Award – Jennifer Le Blanc (Best of PlayGround 26), Jessica June Rowe (Best […]
Posted on July 9, 2022
PlayGround closes out the summer season with a new free festival of new plays by the PlayGround community, FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL, August 26-28, at Potrero Stage and simulcast. The inaugural Free-Play Festival features the return of Joyful Raven’s BREED OR BUST (Aug 26 7pm PDT) following her hit run at the Hollywood Fringe, the premiere of […]
Posted on July 8, 2022
See what PlayGround Writers and Company Members are up to this July! Lizzie Calogero will be playing Alice (and others, including 19th Century robber baron Cleonus Taintworthy) in the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s summer show BACK TO THE WAY THINGS WERE. The show opens July 4th in Dolores Park, and plays in Bay Area parks. […]
Posted on June 13, 2022
After 25 years with PlayGround, Associate Artistic Director Annie Stuart has announced that she is leaving to embark on her next adventure. Annie’s last day at PlayGround will be July 31st. PlayGround Artistic Director Jim Kleinmann commented, “The PlayGround Community and I are deeply indebted to Annie for her 25 years of service. There’s not […]
Posted on June 8, 2022
See what PlayGround Writers and Company Members are up to this June! Jeunée Simon will be appearing onstage with Tierra Allen, Carolina Morones, Alan Quismorio, Kayla May Paz Suarez, and Radhika Rao in poet-playwright Aimee Suzara’s world premiere – THE REAL SAPPHO, a confrontation, a celebration, and the new beginnings of a classic. Directed by […]
Posted on June 2, 2022
PlayGround Announces Return to In-Person Gala Celebrating ONE PLAYGROUND: Bay Area, Los Angeles, NYC & Chicago on September 19, 2022 / 5:30pm-8pm PDT (7:30pm-10pm CDT / 8:30pm-11pm EDT). In-Person at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage with satellites in LA, NY, Chicago & throughout the country. On Monday, September 19, PlayGround will host its annual fundraising gala, […]
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 […]