PlayGround Company in the News November-2019

Read on to learn more about PlayGround Company Member and Alumni recent news, current happenings, and upcoming events as we prepare for the November 25th Monday Night PlayGround at Freight and Salvage!

Rinabeth Apostol just finished the run of THE CHINESE LADY with Will Dao at the Magic and will appear next in GROUNDHOG DAY at SF Playhouse from 11/20/19 – 1/18/20!

Michael Barrett Austin just ended four delightful months of playing Orlando in San Francisco Shakespeare Company’s new musical version of AS YOU LIKE IT, with original songs by The Kilbanes and Phil Wong.”

Mary Baird is currently doing research for a performance piece about Ellen Clark Sargent to celebrate the 19th Amendment next year for the Constitution Day Parade and Marching Presidents in Nevada City.  She is doing a reading to bring in the holidays.  

Julia Brothers will be appearing in WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT at The B Street Theatre in Sacramento – a piece where she will walk onstage alone, be handed a red envelope, and then do a solo cold reading/performance of whatever it asks!  This is going to be fuuuuuuun!!!!!!! She is performing in DANCE NATION at SF Playhouse through November 9, 2019.

Tessa Corrie is excited to be directing a new work with Pint Sized Plays at PianoFight SF. Grab a beer and catch the feminist revision of BABY IT’S COLD OUTSIDE. Shows are Nov 18 & 25, Dec 2, 10, & 16 at 8pm. 

TheatreFirst’s From THE GROUND UP is performing at The Waterfront Theatre Space, now thru Nov 17. Witness the horrible, macabre, the inexplicable. With Rob Dario and others as restless shadows, voices on the air, and haunting memories.

Livia Gomes Demarchi will be seen as Tania in NATIVE GARDENS by Karen Zacarías, directed by Michael Butler at Center Rep, running October 18th through November 16th. She is thrilled to join the company at PlayGround!

Sarah Gasser is stage managing A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD at Bay Area Children’s Theatre, running November 6 through January 19.  

This November, Norman Gee happily rejoined the Arabian Shakespeare Festival, with a cast of 6 actors covering all the roles in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. (yikes!) He just finished playing Adam/ Touchstone all summer in AS YOU LIKE IT with Free Shakespeare In The Park, then co-directed with Elizabeth Carter a female DRACULA at San Francisco School of the Arts (SOTA). And he just signed with Talent+Plus Agency!

Brian Herndon is playing Mr. Collins in PRIDE AND PREJUDICE at TheatreWorks this winter.

Melanie Marshall will be appearing in BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER LIVE!, the drag parody at Oasis October 10 – November 9th.

Alanna McFall has recently joined the acting troupe for the San Francisco branch of Dinner Detectives, a company that hosts murder mystery dinner parties. This is in parallel to her writing work; you can check out her debut paranormal road trip novel, THE TRAVELING TRIPLE-C INCORPOREAL CIRCUS, wherever fine books are sold.

Ross Peter Nelson‘s dark comedy about internet surveillance, BECOMING NUMBER SIX, will be performed as part of the Last Chance New Play Fest in Helena, Montana, from Nov 8 – 17. This is the first Montana performance of the play which premiered in New Orleans in 2016 and took second place in the Las Vegas Little Theatre New Play Competition in 2019.

Madeline Puccioni would love to see lots of her PlayGround pals at The Shelton theater 7pm on November 11th, for a staged reading of her new full-length play, TIME AFTER TIME AGAIN.  Downstairs at 533 Sutter, SF. sponsored by The Playwrights Center SF, 7:30 pm

Katja Rivera is directing THERE IS A HAPPINESS THAT MORNING IS with Performers Under Stress opening November 9 at Phoenix Theatre in SF.

Rebecca Schweitzer is performing in  BULL IN A CHINA SHOP at the Aurora, opening in November.

Robert Sicular appears in MOTHER OF THE MAID, opening this month at Marin Theatre Company. The tale of Joan of Arc as seen through the eyes of her mother, it plays November 14th – December 5th. For tickets and more info, please go to marintheatre.org.

Jonathan Spector‘s EUREKA DAY opened at InterAct Theater in Philadelphia last week, and starts rehearsal this week at Mosaic Theatre in Washington, DC. 

Tracy Ward is opening THE CAKE by Bekah Brunstetter at New Conservatory Nov 2, running through Dec 1.