Company in the News July-2022

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

Betsy Rosen served as Puppet Director/Designer, and as one of the puppeteers for the recently released kids’ talk show series, The Smack-Dab in The Middle of the Day Show. The show is available for streaming on the Kartoon Channel! website and app, which you can check out here.

Alex Shafer is excited to announce they are a member of The Shakespeare Forum in NYC and has found representation.

Cece Suazo makes history as the 1st black transwoman to have her play part of “Concord Theatricals Presents: The 47th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival.” Ms. Suazo’s play YOU WILL NEVA ENTER OUR HIGH HOLY LAND OF BLACKNESS-HIYA was originally produced by Tony Award winning Long Wharf Theater during summer 2020 for Black Trans Women at the Center. This play will get a staged reading this August 2022 at Playwrights Horizon’s (Peter Jay Sharp Theater) directed by NBC series SMASH star Jaime Cepero. Learn more here.

Charles Velasquez-Witosky has a comic book short story being published in a graphic novel anthology this month. Originally published as a standalone digital comic book, CARNIVAL ROW: FROM THE DARK is a prequel story set in the world of the Amazon Prime TV Show, Carnival Row. It is now being published as part of an anthology of stories set in the world of Carnival Row.