Posted on May 17, 2021
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 May 28th at 7PM PDT as part of their second annual PlayGround Zoom Fest. The four finalists — LATE by Sky Krueger, BETWEEN PIGS AND SHEEP […]
Posted on May 7, 2021
Welcome to the second annual PlayGround Zoom Fest – a Festival of New Works – a leading showcase of new plays and playwrights. This year’s festival is once again online due to the continued COVID-conscious gathering restrictions affecting our theatre community. We have 9 distinct events this year in a 3 week period from May 10th […]
Posted on May 4, 2021
See what PlayGround Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we prepare for the PlayGround Zoom Fest this month! Christopher Robin Magee and The Moonrisers are engaging in some spring cleaning and that means taking a long look at some of the unused, undeveloped and experimental scripts we’ve written over the last year. […]
Posted on April 17, 2021
PlayGround has announced the 4 selected plays that will be developed with professionally-presented readings as part of this year’s Zoom Fest! The three-week online Festival (May 10-30) is the culmination and celebration of PlayGround’s yearly programming, cultivating exciting new voices for the American Stage and presenting fully-staged digital premieres alongside dynamic new works in development. […]
Posted on April 6, 2021
PlayGround and the Potrero Stage community will celebrate the launch of the new POTRERO STAGERS membership program with a free digital launch party and evening of performances on Saturday, May 1, 7pm-8:15pm PDT via Zoom livestream. Co-hosted by beloved local performers Marga Gomez and Liam Vincent, the event will feature short performances by more than […]
Posted on April 2, 2021
See what PlayGround Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we prepare for the PlayGround Zoom Fest next month! Madeleine Butler was invited to be part of the writers’ room for THE SINS & SECRETS OF TABARD LAKE, a serial radio drama created by Three Girls Theatre Company. Described as “pandemic noir, ” […]
Posted on April 2, 2021
PlayGround, a premiere playwright incubator and theatre community hub, has created paid development opportunities for local playwrights in San Francisco since 1994 and Los Angeles since 2012… and, as of this October, now New York City! This latest expansion of PlayGround’s mission to support the development of new voices for the theatre, with a deep […]
Posted on March 31, 2021
PlayGround, the Bay Area’s leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to announce that longtime Company Member Liam Vincent will be joining the PlayGround staff effective April 1 in the newly-created position of Director of Growth. Working with PlayGround Artistic Director & Co-Founder Jim Kleinmann and the PlayGround Board of Directors, he will […]
Posted on March 30, 2021
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the selected playwrights for our 25th annual ten-minute play festival, BEST OF PLAYGROUND 25, streaming live via Zoom, Saturday May 29 and Sunday May 30 at 7pm PT. The writers are: Akaina Ghosh, Anne Yumi Kobori, Bacilio Mendez II, Chris Steele, Eteya Trinidad, Leela Velautham, and Christian Wilburn. This year’s […]
Posted on March 24, 2021
On August 6 last year, PlayGround acknowledged to the leaders of #WeSeeYouWAT, the Living Document, and our community as a whole “our role and responsibility to eliminate white supremacy, actively build an anti-racist institution, end harmful behaviors and practices, and ensure PlayGround is a safe and welcoming space for all theatre practitioners to build on […]