Company in the News Aug-2025
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this August!
Julia Brothers will be fighting corporate greed and nuclear waste while making friends and influencing people in Isabella Waldron’s new play Half-Life. Four performances only – August 1, 2 and 3. Produced by the upstart-down-with-the-patriarchy Moxie Arts.
Uma Incrocci’s short play The Oyster is part of Little Fish Theatre’s Pick of the Vine, an evening of short plays, running Aug 8-24 in Redondo Beach, CA.
Nathaniel P. Claridad will be serving as Assistant Director for the Broadway transfer of Ragtime at Lincoln Center directed by Lear deBessonet (performances begin September 26 with an October 16 Opening). Later in the fall, he will direct You Can’t Take It With You at PlayMakers Repertory Company (performances begin November 19).
Sio Hornbuckle is directing DUKES, a sketch and musical comedy show by Liva Pierce and Jane Wickline, which is completing a cross-country tour at NYC’s Joe’s Pub at the end of the month.
Madi Fabber’s play HOUSE, which follows four teenage theater kids navigating queerness, religion, and demonic possession, will have a reading on August 5th at 8pm at The Flea Theater as a part of the 2025 Rogue Theater Festival.
Chelyn Cousar is presenting a short play called Less that she wrote and will be directing for the Rouge Theater Festival at The Flea on Sunday, August 10th.
Dana Leslie Goldstein’s short play POWERLESS, originally written for PlayGround-NY, will have its first production at Playwrights Round Table in Orlando, Florida. POWERLESS is a superhero origin story and an intergenerational family drama rolled into one.
Jackson Bradshaw is thrilled to announce their upcoming production of Taste: An Evening of Short Plays in Three Courses with A La Carte Writers Workshop. Taste is taking place August 22 and 23 at 7PM at 134 W 29th St NYC. Jackson is the Co-Artistic Director of A La Carte Writers Workshop alongside Anastasia Novak. Taste features nine brand new short plays written, directed, and performed all by members of the workshop! Jackson’s original short play, ABDUCT ME, BB will be featured! They will also be directing two plays and performing in one! This is A La Carte Writers Workshop’s second production following their sold out run of Dinner Table Discussions in March. Jackson hopes to see you there!
Jacob Marx Rice was just named a finalist for the Stowe Story Lab, one of the top film incubators in the country, for his screenplay The Valley of Hinnom about a closeted alt-right militia member who goes undercover at the synagogue he is planning to bomb and discovers just how lost he truly is.
Jully Lee will be in the upcoming production of THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA by Tennessee Williams, directed by Jessica Kubzansky at Boston Court Pasadena in California. Sept. 11 – Oct. 19. jullylee.com
Annie Raczko I’m directing a staged reading of my latest full length play , HUNGER, at Villagers Theatre in Somerset, NJ on August 9th- 7pm. The event is free with a talkback afterwards. Synopsis: If you take Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues and Nora Ephron’s Love, Loss, and What I Wore, you get HUNGER, a play set in an in-patient eating disorder facility, where women in various states of recovery come together to discover how to love themselves. This is loosely based on the playwright’s personal story, as well as the collected stories of brave women in the playwright’s life, who shared their experiences which were then turned into monologues for the characters. Pam is a reluctant newcomer to the program, who does not think she needs to be there. During her time in the group, she along with four other patients, including her toxic ex-friend Penny, navigate the nonlinear road to recovery and learn how it’s ok to not be ok. It is all their first time being human, and every body regardless of size or shape is deserving of love.