Posted on December 3, 2021
The people have spoken… The November People’s Choice Award goes to Alanna McFall’s They Dun It, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on November 15th at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, and simulcast online. Congratulations, Alanna! Courtesy of Alanna, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! […]
Posted on November 30, 2021
As the lights go up, Peet’s and Starbucks roll out their snowflake-embossed cups and ugly sweaters re-emerge from the closet, it’s clear… the holiday season has begun! PlayGround offers its own take on the holidays with a new round of Monday Night PlayGround, featuring original short plays inspired by your favorite (and perhaps not-so-favorite) holiday […]
Posted on November 29, 2021
In an interview with TheaterMania, playwright Mansa Ra (fka Jiréh Breon Holder) referred to those who have returned to the theatre in 2021 as “artistic first responders.” We found that phrase incredibly impactful and resonant. CONTRIBUTE Over the last two years, we have celebrated our first responders, our nurses and doctors, grocery store employees, and […]
Posted on November 15, 2021
“Seen many Native American Plays lately? Neither have we. But we know that can change.” – Matt Kizer, Founder/Artistic Director, Native Writers’ Theater New theatre company Native Writers’ Theater debuts as part of PlayGround’s 3rd annual Innovators Showcase with “An Evening of New Native Plays”, November 23, 24 and 26 at 7pm PT, with an […]
Posted on November 14, 2021
PlayGround presents Season 28 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “WHODUNNIT“ November 15, 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 […]
Posted on November 14, 2021
Guidelines for the 2022 Innovator Incubator cohort have been announced and the deadline to apply is January 17, 2022. Sign up for a 1-hour information session, December 12-19. PLAYGROUND INNOVATOR INCUBATOR 2022 RFP The PlayGround Innovator Incubator is a multi-year intensive incubation program to support theatrical innovation and the launch of new innovative theatrical production companies. PlayGround will competitively […]
Posted on November 5, 2021
See what PlayGround Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this November! Jerome Joseph Gentes, board member and longtime PlayGround member, is producing American Sign Language (ASL) versions of LGBT playwright Harrison David Rivers’ HOLD ME THE FORGOTTEN WAY MONOLOGUE CYCLE. The videos will be released and made available for free viewing on Monday, […]
Posted on November 2, 2021
Through the success of this year’s PlayGround Gala and the Fund-a-Future campaign, PlayGround is establishing five (5) one-year paid fellowships for early-career women artists, in the areas of directing, acting, playwriting, design/tech, and theatre management. In the spirit of PlayGround’s June Anne Baker Prize, which has fostered a community of twenty early-career women playwrights over […]
Posted on October 29, 2021
As part of its year-round Young Playwrights Project fostering creative expression among Bay Area youth, PlayGround is offering a limited-capacity six-session Creative Writing Workshop for area teens, led by PlayGround playwright and two-time Best of PlayGround alumnus Christian Wilburn. The class will take place over eight online sessions, Saturdays and Sundays, 2pm-4pm, November 13, 14, […]
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 […]