Posted on May 15, 2025
PlayGround is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Young Playwrights Contest, an open-submission competition that provides winning high school playwrights with a professional staged reading during the PlayGround Festival of New Works. The winning plays and playwrights of this year’s contest are The Lavender by Myles-Alexys Jones (Moreau Catholic High School), The Poet’s […]
Posted on May 13, 2025
Huzza! It’s another “interview” with one of the playwrights featured in the PlayGround’s 29th Festival of New Works! Unlike traditional playwright interviews, we asked our writers to reply to our questions with either a single word, an image, an obvious lie, or a rhyming couplet (or whatever they wanted if they weren’t in the mood). And if you’re […]
Posted on May 12, 2025
Welcome to another “interview” with the playwrights featured in the PlayGround’s 29th Festival of New Works! Unlike traditional playwright interviews, we asked our writers to reply to our questions with either a single word, an image, an obvious lie, or a rhyming couplet (or whatever they wanted if they weren’t in the mood). And if you’re looking for […]
Posted on May 9, 2025
PlayGround presents Season 31 29th ANNUAL PLAYGROUND FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS May 6th-25th, 2025 Live at Potrero Stage + Simulcast On-Demand thru May 31 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 […]
Posted on May 9, 2025
How about another “interview” featuring one our 2025 Festival playwrights? Unlike traditional playwright interviews, we asked our writers to reply to our questions with either a single word, an image, an obvious lie, or a rhyming couplet (or whatever they wanted if they weren’t in the mood). If you’re looking for tickets to the festival, you can find […]
Posted on May 8, 2025
Welcome to another “interview” with the playwrights featured in the PlayGround’s 29th Festival of New Works! Unlike traditional playwright interviews, we asked our writers to reply to our questions with either a single word, an image, an obvious lie, or a rhyming couplet (or whatever they wanted if they weren’t in the mood). And if you’re looking for […]
Posted on May 6, 2025
Welcome to another “interview” with the playwrights featured in the PlayGround’s 29th Festival of New Works! Unlike traditional playwright interviews, we asked our writers to reply to our questions with either a single word, an image, an obvious lie, or a rhyming couplet (or whatever they wanted if they weren’t in the mood). And if you’re looking for […]
Posted on May 1, 2025
Welcome to the first of a series of “interviews” with the playwrights featured in the 2025 Festival! Unlike traditional playwright interviews, we asked our writers to reply to our questions with either a single word, an image, an obvious lie, or a rhyming couplet (or whatever they wanted if they weren’t in the mood). This should be fun […]
Posted on May 1, 2025
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this May! Ben Chau-Chiu steps into the role of DHH in David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face at Shotgun Players. The show opens May 10 with pay-what-you-can previews and runs through June 8. Don’t miss this timely and provocative exploration of identity and representation. Purchase […]
Posted on April 18, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO – PlayGround has announced the call for the 7th annual cohort for the Innovator Incubator program. The Innovator Incubator was launched in 2019 to foster new innovative theatre companies and productions with a strong commitment to historically marginalized or excluded communities. The multi-year intensive incubation program provides access and opportunity for emerging theatre […]