2024 Young Playwrights Project

PlayGround in association with Avenue Greenlight & California Humanities presents
A Potrero Hill Community Celebration Event
The 16th Annual Lenore & Howard Klein Foundation YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT
May 24, 7pm PT at Potrero Stage & Simulcast
On-Demand thru May 31
Admission: $0-$30 (donations gratefully accepted) or Festival Sponsorship

Take Charge by Hiu Chu (Galileo Academy of Science & Technology ’27)
Where I’m From by Shannon Floyd Jr (Galileo Academy of Science & Technology ’27)
2100 by Oona Haskovec (Ruth Asawa School of the Arts ’25)
Curtain Speeches by Alexis Tuchinda (The Nueva School ’24)

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PlayGround Festival Sponsors
Become a PlayGround Festival Sponsor with a donation of $100 or more and receive automatic reservations to all festival streaming performances with extended on-demand access through June 30 and access to preferred seating for in-person performances at Potrero Stage. All Festival Sponsors will be acknowledged in the PlayGround Festival digital playbill. Become a sponsor by May 1 and receive streaming/on-demand access to our three regional Best of PlayGrounds (Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago). For more information, click here.

FESTIVAL SPONSORSHIP

NOTE: Advance reservations are required. Admission is free but donations are gratefully accepted. Links for online viewing will be sent within one day of the performance and can also be accessed through your PlayGround account at https://tickets.playground-sf.org (log in, click “home” for the main menu, then “tickets for upcoming performances”, select the proper show, and choose “watch”). If you have any questions, please contact the Box Office at boxoffice@playground-sf.org.

For the complete PlayGround Festival schedule, click here.

PREVIOUS FINALISTS

2023 Young Playwrights Project Finalists:
Pleased as Peach by Arisa Sky Krueger (Ruth Asawa School of the Arts ’24)
The Rouge Shoes by Grady Fleming, Clifton Chiang, Josslyn Grover, Julia Satterley and Annika Svahn (Bentley Upper School ’25)
American Magpie by Brian Guan (Dublin High School ’24)
When One Cries Wolf by Linnani Simpson (Ruth Asawa School of the Arts ’23)

2022 Young Playwrights Project Finalists:
Moon Eater by Christopher John Dela Cruz (Galileo Academy of Science and Technology ’22)
Bamboo by Sky Krueger (Ruth Asawa School of the Arts ’24)
The Mitten by Emily Maremont (San Francisco University High School ’25)
The Woman Who Refused to be Beaten by Aleeza Zakai (California High School ’23)

2021 Young Playwrights Project Finalists:
Late by Sky Krueger (SOTA ’24)
Between Pigs and Sheep by Finn Liu (Galileo Academy of Science and Technology ’21)
How An Ice Cream Truck Can Damn You to Hell by Jane Palladino (Aragon High School ’23)
Bread and Circuses by Anna Vanderford (Hillsdale High School ’21)

2020 Young Playwrights Project Finalists:
Aren’t You Clever by Katherine Ioffe (Design Tech High School ’22)
American Dinner by Leela Kiyawat (Oakland School for the Arts ’21)
If Only We Were Humen by Tiffany Liu (Cupertino High School ’21)
Safe Way by Sarah Schecter (Oakland School for the Arts ’21)

2019 Young Playwrights Project Finalists:
Behind the Trance by Ashlee Nguyen (Galileo Academy of Science & Technology ’19)
Lizzy in the Room by Jennifer Xiang (Mission San Jose High School ’20)
Princess and the P.E.A. by Cicely Henderson (SOTA ’19)
Snip Snip! by Lucy Urbano (Oakland School for the Arts ’19)

2018 Young Playwrights Project Finalists:
True Colors by Nicholas Wong (Galileo Academy of Science & Technology ’18)
Shorter Than Fiction by Trey Harris (SOTA ’18) & Oliver Paddock (SOTA ’19)
We Don’t Have Day Jobs Anymore by Lucy Urbano (Oakland School of the Arts ’19)
Highly Qualified by Penelope Gould (Oakland School of the Arts ’18)

2017 Young Playwrights Project Finalists:
Crash by Annais Guerroro (SOTA ’19)
Parliament by Cicely Henderson (SOTA ’19)
Assumptions by Chava Novogrodsky-Godt (SOTA ’20)
Bear All, Bear Arms by Camilla Dwyer (SOTA ’17)

2016 Young Playwrights Project Finalists:
Apartment Number Four by Cicely Henderson (SOTA ’19)
Coming Around by Isabel Rose Aks (SOTA ’19)
In Black and White by Camilla Dwyer (SOTA ’17)
My Name Is by Max Itsikson (SOTA ’18)

2015 Young Playwrights Project Finalists:
Home Front by Camilla Dwyer (SOTA ’17)
Darling on the Nickel by Rocko Bauman (Berkeley High School ’15)
Man’s Work by Neil Binnie (Miramonte High School ’17)
Different Pieces of Oppression by Rebecca Shalliker (Albany High School ’16)

2014 Young Playwrights Project Finalists:
Who Wants the Moon by Eliza Mantz (Tamalpais ’14)
Occupi by Jake Rosenberg (JCHS of the Bay ’14)
Walk A Night in My Moccasins by Christine Lim (SOTA ’15)
Somnambulism by Tessa King (Tamalpais ’15)

2013 Young Playwrights Project Finalists:
Ariadne’s Thread by Hilary Buffum (SOTA ’14)
Marriage, On the Rocks by Louise Newlin (Urban ’13)
Pitch Slap by Jake Rosenberg (JCHS of the Bay ’14)
Flowershop by Carly Van Liere (Redwood High ’14)

2012 Young Playwrights Project Finalist:
Roundabout by Ayelet Schrek (JCHS of the Bay ’13)

2011 Young Playwrights Project Finalists:
Act After Curtain by Alona Bach (Berkeley High ’11)
You Wanna Refill? by Rebecca Leiner (SOTA ’11) and Madison Worthington (SOTA ’11)
Secrets in a Backstage Box by Pavla Berghen-Wolf (JCHS of the Bay ’13)
Shakespeare in an Airport by Caety Klingman (Miramonte High ’11)

2010 Young Playwrights Project Finalists:
Eden by Hannah Sears (Urban School ’12)
Pandora by Lucas Baisch (SOTA ’10)
Family Values by Nathan Forster (Berkeley High ’11)
Blankie by Caety Klingman (Miramonte High ’11)

2009 Young Playwrights Project Finalists:
The Toyshop by Sophie Becker (Tamalpais ’11)
How To Make A Clean Get Away by Tanea Lunsford (SOTA ’09)
Before the Once Upon A Time by Jose Villegas and Melanie Manzana (Acad. of Arts & Sciences ’11)
Bear by Reese Adams-Romagnoli (SOTA ’11)