Company in the News October-2025

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

Uma Incrocci’s play Midnight at Pricklemore Mansion — a frisky and scandalous farce that takes place in a haunted house — will have a reading at Morningside Players on Oct 26 at 6pm. Tickets are free.

Anya Josephs’, PlayGround Directorial alum, is directing a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Auditions are the first week in October, with video submissions accepted through October 12th. See the link below for details–would love to see lots of PlayGround folks there! Audition Info Available here

Alex Shafer narrates a short story called “People Believe What They Want To Believe” in the September ’25 issue of Razor Magazine. More Information Available Here!

D.A. Mindell is producing Right Time, Right Place, a reading of leftist plays written to the prompts of a conservative theater festival. The event will raise funds for a local organization combatting fascism. It will take place on October 5th at 1pm, in an outdoor location in New York City to be decided. IG: @righttime__rightplace

Alysia Homminga, PlayGround-NY Directing Apprentice, is directing the 10-minute play Sunset Diner by Kevin Cheng at the Queens Short Play Festival October 15-November 1. This is the third production of this play that Alysia has directed, the first two being at The Rat in May and East Village Basement in June. Sunset Diner explores themes of love, loss, and life, as we follow the dinner date of newly engaged couple David and Anita. Tickets Available Here!

Austin Ku (actor, director) has had a busy year of audiobook narration, and has FIVE audiobooks releasing in October! They are Squished (published by Graphix), The Wizard: When Words Kill (TokyoPop), Spent Bullets (HarperCollins), The Book of Crows (Open Road Media), and The Crack at the Heart of Everything (Tiny Fox Press). More Information Available Here!

Julia Brothers will be at Florida Rep doing Sister Aloysius Beauvier in John Patrick Shanley’s DOUBT in October/November. It is a very meaningful job because her parents met doing theatre, and stopped acting when three kids were born. Her father went back to it after he retired and performed several times at Florida Rep before he died. “This one’s for you, Dadurn!”