Posted on October 6, 2025
See what PlayGround-SF Writers and Company Members are up to this October! Acting Retreat | Winter Session – Applications Open Now! January 19–24, 2026. Mexico City Early Bird Special: Apply before October 15, 2025 and enjoy $400 off. Apply: hechaleproductions.com/actingretreat. Together with PlayGround, we’re bringing actors from around the world to Mexico City this January,2026 […]
Posted on September 29, 2025
What happens when RALPHIE Parker and Ethan GRINCH meet on an Amtrak and devise a plan to help each other achieve their biggest holiday desires? Or, how can we bear with the fact that Santa was found dead in a couple’s apartment; but was St. Nick’s untimely death a result of self-defense…or murder?? Enjoy these […]
Posted on September 19, 2025
“The game is afoot.” ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Abbey Grange The topic for the October 20 Monday Night PlayGround-SF has been announced: MURDER MYSTERY! The event will also serve as PlayGround’s second annual evening of one-person plays. From Sherlock Holmes adventures to true crime podcasts, “who done it” stories are as […]
Posted on September 1, 2025
See what PlayGround Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this September! Melina Cohen-Bramwell’s CA$H grant winning play PLEASE DON’T SLOW ME DOWN will have it’s world premiere this coming October and November. (This play was first workshopped in PlayGround SF’s Free-Play Festival!). The show follows Benji Tullman, a bipolar, Bay-Area-born millennial—and the physical […]
Posted on August 22, 2025
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 15, 2025
PlayGround has announced the 2025-26 Producing Fellows, a vibrant and diverse class of four next-gen theatre leaders drawn from across the country and who will work with PlayGround’s artistic staff and national producing teams over the next year in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Fellows gain hands-on experience in the […]
Posted on August 5, 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
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
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 15, 2025
One of the nation’s oldest and most respected developers of new works for the theatre, PlayGround will mark the conclusion of its 30th Anniversary Season with a four-city gala celebration taking place simultaneously in New York City (Carmine’s Upper West Side), Chicago (Osteria Via Stato), Los Angeles (Rossoblu) and San Francisco (Verdi Club) on Monday, […]