Posted on August 22, 2025

Devin Cunningham 3 comments

Meet PlayGround Gala Honoree Philip Kan Gotanda: Our resident Bay Area Trailblazer

Philip Kan Gotanda is one of the honorees at this year’s One Playground Gala, taking place on September 15 with simultaneous celebrations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago! Gotanda is a multi-disciplinary artist, utilizing the mediums of playwriting, filmmaking, and music to broaden the visibility of the AANHPI lived experience. He was […]

Posted on August 5, 2025

Jacinta Kaumbulu

Company in the News Aug-2025

See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this August! Laura Domingo was part of the writing team for Killing My Lobster’s Dungeons & Dragons-themed sketch comedy show, Legends & Laughter. The show performs Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm at Eclectic Box in the Mission. Ely Sonny Orquiza is directing The Two […]

Posted on August 1, 2025

Jim Kleinmann

PlayGround Launches 30th Anniversary Campaign to Secure the Future!

In the face of extraordinarily difficult times for theatres nationwide, PlayGround is expanding its programming in four major American cities and expanding career-launching opportunities for theatre artists from across the nation. In support of these efforts and the 500+ actors, writers, directors, and technicians who are supported by PlayGround (and paid union wages), the company […]

Posted on July 27, 2025

Jonathan Josephson

PLAYGROUND’S 32nd SEASON WRITERS POOL, RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHTS, COMMISSIONS ANNOUNCED

SAN FRANCISCO – PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 32nd anniversary season. The season announcement coincides with the release of the 2025-26 Writers Pools, 112 early-career playwrights in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, who will participate in PlayGround’s […]

Posted on July 3, 2025

Jim Kleinmann

Company in the News Jul-2025

See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members,and Alumni are up to this July! Congratulations to Jonathan Spector on winning the Tony Award for Best Play Revival for his play, Eureka Day at this year’s 2025 Tony Awards. Eureka Day premiered on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre as part of Manhattan Theatre Club’s season last […]

Posted on July 3, 2025

Jonathan Josephson

Free-Play Festival 2025 Playbill

PlayGround presents Season 31 PLAYGROUND FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL August 1-24, 2025 Live at Potrero Stage + 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, […]