Company in the News May 2023

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

Gaven D. Trinidad‘s play THE HOLIDAY PARTY, originally presented at the Best of PlayGround-NY Gala, has been selected to represent PlayGround-NY at the inaugural One PlayGround Festival, June 2-4 at Potrero Stage and simulcast.

Jacob Marx Rice’s A THOUSAND NATURAL SHOCKS was presented as a staged reading on May 15 as part of the 27th annual Playground Festival of New Works.

Austin Ku will be playing Francis Crick (of Watson & Crick) in the world premiere of the new musical DOUBLE HELIX at Bay Street Theater (Sag Harbor, NY), running 5/30-6/18. Get tickets here.

Todd Cerveris‘ PROVENANCE, was the Vermont state winner for Portland Stage’s Clauder Competition for New England Playwrights. PROVENANCE explores themes of identity and authentic self-knowledge through the lives of the inhabitants of (and travelers to) a small Vermont town. Read more here.

Alex Shafer booked a Co-star role in the Daredevil Born Again TV series from Disney+. He’ll be playing the Jury Foreperson. It should air late this year/early next year.

Louise Schwarz’s ten-minute play A LITTLE BIT VACANT will be featured in Glass Ceiling Breakers 3, a theatre and film festival this June in the Hudson Valley. Learn more here.

Olivia Songer will be the directing fellow at Chautauqua Theater Company this summer!

Nathaniel P. Claridad will be directing A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Weathervane Theatre, opening on August 22nd. After that he will be directing THE PROM at the University of Maryland, College Park.