“You wave at the sky with wild ightovely eyes / Waves and waves of love goodbye.” – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. PlayGround, the Bay Area’s leading playwright incubator, has joined forces with San Francisco music festival promoter Noise Pop and entrepreneur David Steele to launch a July 6-30 run of the bold new […]

PlayGround is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2017 Young Playwrights Contest – a second consecutive sweep for San Francisco’s Ruth Asawa School of the Arts (SOTA)! PlayGround invited aspiring writers and theatre artists at the high school level to write and submit their own 10-minute plays inspired by the topic:  WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO […]

PlayGround is excited to announce the lineup for our 21st Annual PlayGround Festival of New Works. The festival runs May 11 – June 18 at Potrero Stage, PlayGround’s newly-renovated San Francisco home, and features more than a dozen of the best new short and full-length plays by Bay Area writers. United by the theme of […]

Applications for the 2017-18 PlayGround Writers Pool are being accepted, now through June 30, 2017. Only members of the Writers Pool may submit scripts as part of the monthly staged reading series, Monday Night PlayGround, and from which are selected the six plays and playwrights for each year’s Best of PlayGround Festival. For specific eligibility […]

The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to Maury Zeff for his short play, Come and Knock on Our Door, presented as a staged reading at the Monday Night PlayGround WomenArts Night on March 20 at Berkeley Rep. Congratulations, Maury! Courtesy of Mr. Zeff, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from […]

PlayGround is thrilled to announce our growing line-up for the 2017 Gala fundraiser taking place on Monday, April 3 at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater. America’s most produced living playwright this season, Lauren Gunderson (“I and You”), will now be joined by long-time Bay Area theatre critic Chad Jones as our interviewer for the evening with local […]