Posted on May 19, 2023
This weekend is the PlayGround Festival premiere presentation of Christian Wilburn‘s new play, STARLIGHT! STARLIGHT is about a young girl’s learning to live with her chronic illness. Their’s magic, and Specters and other worlds, but underneath all of it, that’s the story. Playwright Christian Wilburn is a San Francisco based writer whose work blends the […]
Posted on May 18, 2023
PlayGround is excited to announce immediate openings to join the 2023-2024 Producing Fellowship, designed to foster the next generation of leadership for the American Theatre. We are looking for individuals passionate about theatre and looking to make an impact on the field while developing the skill set to do so for a living. Candidates must […]
Posted on May 12, 2023
PlayGround presents Season 29 27th ANNUAL PLAYGROUND FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS May 8-28, 2023 Live at Potrero Stage + Simulcast On-Demand thru June 30 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 8, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this May! Analog Theatre (Innovator Incubator Class of 2023) will be presenting their Mask Monday on May 29th, Memorial Day. Join company members Rebecca Pingree and Jed Parsario, together with phenom actor Elissa Beth Stebbins as they host Local guest artists in a night […]
Posted on May 6, 2023
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 Friday, May 12th at 7PM PDT as part of the 27th Annual PlayGround Festival of New Works. The four winners are “Pleased as Peach” by Arisa […]
Posted on May 4, 2023
UPDATE (5/4): As of today, we’re 44% of the way to our $10k festival sponsorship goal. A huge thanks to all of this year’s festival sponsors. Become a festival sponsor today and help us cross the finish line! PlayGround is part of an amazing community of artists—playwrights, directors, actors, designers—and audiences who come to support […]
Posted on April 14, 2023
PlayGround has announced the full lineup for its 27th annual FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS, running May 8-28, in-person at Potrero Stage, where the festival has been based since 2008, and simulcast online. A preeminent showcase for the next generation of great playwrights, the PlayGround Festival of New Works has helped launch dozens of the Bay […]
Posted on April 14, 2023
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the selected playwrights and short plays for our 27th annual ten-minute play fest, BEST OF PLAYGROUND 27! Please join us as we showcase first-time festival writers Danny Martinez, Jr., Matthew Y. Morishige, Vicky Pham, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Michael Tuton, and Alexis Standridge. For two nights only, PlayGround will celebrate these […]
Posted on April 1, 2023
See what PlayGround-SF Writers, Company Members and Alumni are up to this April! Molly Olis Krost will have a staged reading of their play NANAY (previously developed at the 26th annual PlayGround Festival of New Works) at Macha Theatre’s Distillery New Works Festival in Seattle, WA. The reading will be April 15th at 7pm. Get […]
Posted on March 31, 2023
The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to Jediah Craig for his play La Tierra del Olvido, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on March 20th live at the Freight & Salvage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Jediah! Courtesy of Jediah, we’re pleased to share the first two […]