Posted on October 29, 2021
“Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long.” -Shakespeare Following this month’s successful Season 28 opening, Bay Area playwright incubator PlayGround has announced the prompt for the next Monday Night PlayGround staged reading event. Thirty-six San Francisco Bay Area writers had just four-and-a-half days to generate their original scripts inspired by the prompt […]
Posted on October 29, 2021
The people have spoken… The October People’s Choice Award goes to Christian Wilburn for his short play, Ivan the Terrible Actor, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on October 18th at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley and simulcast online. Congratulations, Christian! Courtesy of Christian, we’re pleased to share the first two pages […]
Posted on October 17, 2021
PlayGround presents Season 28 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “REBIRTH“ October 18, 2021 7pm PT Freight & Salvage + Simulcast 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 Francisco Peninsula and East Bay, respectively. As the […]
Posted on October 6, 2021
For the last twenty years, PlayGround and the broader community have seen the impact that the June Anne Baker Prize has had in uplifting early-career women writers; and, now, we want to take this a step further and invest in next-gen women leadership across every theatre discipline. The facts: While representing 51% of the population and the […]
Posted on October 5, 2021
Last September, representatives from the PlayGround leadership, staff, board, company, writers, audience and supporters came together as the PlayGround Equity Workgroup, meeting monthly to review and address the demands of #WeSeeYouWAT and the Living Document BIPOC Equity Action Plan, and to help review and establish PlayGround policies to assist in this critical work. In March, […]
Posted on October 1, 2021
See what PlayGround Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we begin the 2021-22 season! Maury Zeff‘s full-length play THE FROZEN SEA (about the convergence of art and technology in the near future) is being performed in Geneva, Switzerland, October 9th and 16th as a co-produced event by the Fête du Théâtre 2021, […]
Posted on September 30, 2021
PlayGround has announced the programming lineup for the 3rd annual INNOVATORS SHOWCASE, featuring new works by the 2021 Innovator Incubator Cohort: Analog Theatre, The Chikahan Company, The Forum Collective, Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project, Latinx Mafia, Native Writers’ Theater, Poltergeist Theatre Project, and Theatre Cultura. The Innovator Incubator was launched in 2019 to foster new innovative […]
Posted on September 24, 2021
“Perhaps that is where our choice lies—in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.” – Elana K. Arnold On the eve of the return to in-person theatre and the company’s expansion to New York, Bay Area playwright incubator PlayGround has chosen the prompt of […]
Posted on September 24, 2021
“I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” – Malala Yousafzai On Monday, September 20, over 150 attendees from all over the country and as far away as Australia came together […]
Posted on September 18, 2021
Welcome to the 2021 PlayGround Gala. This year’s gala celebrates twenty years of the June Anne Baker Prize and the legacy of the twenty women playwright who’ve received the prize since 2002. Initiated by PlayGround benefactor John H. Gilman in memory of his late wife, the June Anne Baker Prize recognizes the top new female […]