Posted on January 15, 2024
The people have spoken… The December People’s Choice Award goes to Jacob Marx Rice for his short play, The Prophets, presented as a staged reading live online on December 25th. Congratulations, Jacob! Courtesy of Jacob, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! The Prophets by Jacob Marx Rice Characters […]
Posted on December 29, 2023
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this January! Bailey Jordan Garcia has a lot coming up in the New Year! First, their piece This Is Beauty (created for PlayGround) will be in Heller Theatre’s Second Sunday Serials on January 14th. They are also co-producing a reading of Roni Ragone’s Up Strung Down […]
Posted on December 28, 2023
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” – Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5, William Shakespeare What if King Hamlet had discovered his brother’s plans before the treacherous poisoning? Or if Romeo had arrived just a few minutes later to discover Juliet awakening? PlayGround playwrights take us […]
Posted on December 22, 2023
PlayGround-NY presents Season 3 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “Surviving the Holidays” December 25th, 2023 7pm ET Vimeo Live Simulcast & On Demand ACKNOWLEDGING THE LEGACY OF THE LAND WE INHABIT PlayGround-NY acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Munsee Lanape, the original inhabitants of the territory colonially known as the five […]
Posted on December 8, 2023
The people have spoken… The November People’s Choice Award goes to Claire Abramovitz for their short play, Mercy as a Mother on a Child, presented as a staged reading live at The Producer’s Club and Simulcast & On-Demand via Vimeo Live on November 27th. Congratulations, Claire! Courtesy of Claire, we’re pleased to share the first […]
Posted on December 1, 2023
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this December! Uma Incrocci’s short play A Hot Brick (from Playground LA 2020) will be a part of the International Human Rights Arts Festival in NY on Dec 10. Find more information here. Jully Lee will be working on the workshop of Ayad Akhtar’s new play […]
Posted on November 28, 2023
PlayGround has had a busy year. With Monday Night PlayGround programs running in-person and streaming online in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, we are supporting 400+ writers, directors, actors and stage managers across the country as they create over 140 bold new works for the stage in a supportive community of […]
Posted on November 26, 2023
PlayGround-NY presents Season 3 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “The Legacy of the Land We Inhabit” November 27th, 2023 7pm ET Vimeo Live Simulcast & On Demand ACKNOWLEDGING THE LEGACY OF THE LAND WE INHABIT PlayGround-NY acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Munsee Lanape, the original inhabitants of the territory colonially […]
Posted on November 24, 2023
“You guys give up? Or are you thirsty for more?”- Kevin McCallister, Home Alone (1990) Come celebrate the holidays PlayGround-style at the next round of Monday Night PlayGround, December 25 at 7pm ET, performed live and simulcast online, featuring original short plays inspired by the prompt “Surviving the Holidays”. PlayGround-NY’s sister companies, PlayGround-LA, PlayGround, and PlayGround-Chicago will present […]
Posted on November 10, 2023
The people have spoken… The October People’s Choice Award goes to Kathryn Ryan for her short play, Supergirls, presented as a staged reading live at The Producer’s Club and Simulcast & On-Demand via Vimeo Live on October 23rd. Congratulations, Kathryn! Courtesy of Kathryn, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. […]