Company in the News September 2023

See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this September!

Erin Proctor’s queer sci-fi comedy TIME HOLE is running at The Tank from October 5-8 for three performances. Tickets are on sale now!

Julia Brothers will be playing the fabulous porn star/feminist sex educator/author Nina Hartley in a workshop/creative weeklong session in Raquel Almazon’s “GODDESSES RETURN TO THE TEMPLE – FINAL INSTALLMENT OF A SEXTRILOGY” directed by Mei Ann Teo and produced by Live And In Color, a NYC based organization dedicated to cultivating and celebrating diverse voices and perspectives in the theatre. Learn more here.

Nathaniel P. Claridad is currently in rehearsals directing THE PROM at the University of Maryland, College Park, which starts performances on September 29. His production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Weathervane Theatre opened August 22nd and will continue to play until October 5th. Get tickets here.

Howard Ho will start rehearsals on RESET, his first full-length production as a playwright. The show runs from October 21 to November 20 at Los Angeles’s Moving Arts Theatre, and tickets are now on sale.

Michael Hagins’ play AS YOU WITH IT OR THE BRIDE PRINCESS OR WHAT YOU WILL will be presented at C.A.G.E. Theatre Company. Michael wrote and directed this production, which will be presented at the Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10009) with performances from September 22nd to September 24th. Get tickets here.

Katie Ryan’s full-length play, ALL YOU NEED, had a reading this summer at Round The Bend Theatre in Tannersville, NY. Her one-act play, WHAT HELP LOOKS LIKE, was presented at the Valdez Theatre Conference in Alaska and THE DOLPHIN DILEMMA (developed in response to a PlayGround prompt) was featured at the Valdez Fringe Festival. HANNAH AND GREYSON (also developed in response to a PlayGround prompt) was published by Drama Notebook and produced by the Grand Marais Playhouse in Minnesota and the Marva Theatre in Maryland.

Rachel Leighson’s new commissioned radio play will premiere with season 2 of Feminist Fairytales launching September 15th!

Bailey Jordan Garcia, alongside a couple of other Playground members, has been workshopping their piece THE WE HEART CHRISTOPHER MAHONEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE FOREVER CLUB for Cry Havoc’s Inaugural Playlist Project Reading on September 27th.