Posted on July 9, 2022
PlayGround, a leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub helping to uplift historically underrepresented voices for the stage since 1994, has announced four new play commissions for PlayGround’s 29th Season (2022-23). They include three winners of the Best of PlayGround People’s Choice Award – Jennifer Le Blanc (Best of PlayGround 26), Jessica June Rowe (Best […]
Posted on July 8, 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 […]
Posted on June 10, 2022
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this June! Anthony Anello‘s play Let’s Talk About Anything Else is getting a workshop at The Tank, in No ETA presents: three plays over three days, on Wednesday, June 15th at 7pm. A year after their friend’s untimely passing, a group of friends escape to the Berkshires […]
Posted on May 5, 2022
See what PlayGround-NY Writers are up to this May! THESE AND THOSE, written by Ruth Geye, will premiere at the New York Theater Festival May 23, 25, & 28. Learn more here. Bailey Jordan Garcia is graduating The New School earning a BFA in Playwriting this May.
Posted on April 23, 2022
PlayGround-NY presents Season 1 BEST OF PLAYGROUND-NY GALA April 25th, 2022 7pm ET Vimeo Live Simulcast & On Demand A Great Fall By Christian Missonak Directed by Sylvia Cervantes Blush Nathan………Michael Barrett Austin Alana………………..….Krystal Mosley H.D. ……….…………….Andrew Sellon That Ever I Was Born to Set It Right By Leela Velautham Directed by Jeunee Simon Hamlet………………..….Aaron […]
Posted on April 13, 2022
The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to Matthew Park for his short play, Little Miss Muffet, presented as a staged reading Simulcast & On-Demand via Vimeo Live on March 28th. Congratulations, Matthew! Courtesy of Matthew, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! Little Miss […]
Posted on April 9, 2022
Help celebrate the best writers and short works from PlayGround-NY’s inaugural season at the BEST OF PLAYGROUND-NY GALA, on Monday, April 25, 7pm EDT / 4pm PDT, simulcast via Vimeo Live and on-demand for one week! The Best of PlayGround-NY Gala features a special live online presentation of six short plays originally developed through the […]
Posted on April 8, 2022
See what PlayGround-NY Writers are up to this April! Christian Missonak will have the fully staged premiere of his play, COOPERATIVE at The Obie Award winning Metropolitan Playhouse in NYC as part of its East Side Stories, running May 19th-29th, 2022. COOPERATIVE was originally conceived as part of the PlayGround NY’s “Keep Moving Forward” January […]
Posted on March 26, 2022
PlayGround-NY presents Season 1 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “What the World Needs Now…” March 28th, 2022 7pm ET Vimeo Live Simulcast & On Demand Sing a Song of Sixpence By Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin Directed by Nico Krell Marie [de Medici]………..…Jenny Nguyen Nelson Henry [IV of France]…….Graceson Abreu Nunez Priest……….…………………………..…..David Kramer Blackbird……….………………..……..….Sheila Collins K-I-S-S-I-N-G By Bailey […]
Posted on March 18, 2022
Are you a New York-based early-career or aspiring professional playwright? Have you ever wanted to see your plays performed on stage by leading local professional actors? Do you respond well to deadlines? PlayGround is seeking applications for the second PlayGround-NY Writers Pool. Only members of the Writers Pool are invited to submit for the Monday […]