Posted on March 3, 2023
Are you a New York-based early-career or aspiring professional playwright? Have you ever wanted to see your plays performed on stage by leading local professional actors? Do you respond well to deadlines? PlayGround is seeking applications for the third PlayGround-NY Writers Pool. Only members of the Writers Pool are invited to submit for the Monday […]
Posted on February 2, 2023
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this February! As well as being a writer, Jack Feldstein is an animator, who created an online series called ANIMATED NEW YORKERS. Here’s the latest episode hot off the press, featuring composer Greta Gertler Gold. View the post here. Dana Leslie Goldstein‘s full-length play DAUGHTERS of the […]
Posted on January 1, 2023
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this January! Producers Latinx Playwrights Circle, WP Theater, and The Sol Project are thrilled to announce the Off-Broadway Premiere of Sancocho, a new play by Christin Eve Cato (The Good Cop, DUAF 2022) directed by Rebecca Martinez (Miss You Like Hell; Theatre for One: Here We […]
Posted on December 9, 2022
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this December! Two monologues from Sam Affoumado‘s full-length play, THE PANIC DEFENSE, have been included in a newly released Smith & Kraus anthology, WE/US: Monologues for THE GENDER MINORITY. It is one of the first anthologies to give voice, on stage, to characters who represent all […]
Posted on November 4, 2022
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this November! Dana Leslie Goldstein‘s “ANZIA, a fiction” will be produced in November at The Butterfly Club in Melbourne, Australia by Baggage Productions. Her play “PRETEND” will be presented on zoom by Dragon Productions Theatre Company (San Jose, CA). Learn more here. Austin Ku is performing […]
Posted on September 30, 2022
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this October! Dana Leslie Goldstein‘s libretto “The Choice” will be produced by Con Vivo Music and performed as part of CHILLTOWN BOOGIE (music by Alon Nechushtan) in Jersey City, NJ. Julia Brothers is taking the month of October off and will be in Istanbul and then […]
Posted on September 23, 2022
“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.” – Tennessee Williams Playwright incubator PlayGround-NY has announced the prompt for the first […]
Posted on September 2, 2022
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this September! Barry Eitel‘s dark comedy screenplay THE CLARINET was selected as a quarterfinalist for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s Nicholl Fellowship. Talking Horse Productions is producing Sam Affoumado‘s monologue, LAST NIGHT BLUEY DIED, for their season 3 Original Monologue Contest. The video […]
Posted on August 12, 2022
PlayGround-NY, the first East Coast expansion of the celebrated California-based playwright incubator, is pleased to share plans for its second season. The company will shortly announce the Season 2 Writers Pool, 36 early-career NYC-based playwrights competitively selected from more than 90 applications received this summer. Over the course of the upcoming 2022-23 season, these writers […]
Posted on August 5, 2022
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this August! Libby Heily‘s latest play, 37 INCIDENTS BETWEEN VICTORIA AND HER BRAIN, will have a workshop performance at The Tank as part of Dark Fest on July 31st at 9:30 pm. Get tickets here. Jacob Marx Rice‘s play, A THOUSAND NATURAL SHOCKS, was named a […]