Posted on October 1, 2021
See what PlayGround-NY Writers are up to as we begin the 2021-22 season! Nina Kim’s play BROKEN ENGLISH will be a part of IAMA Theatre Company’s Pass the Mic Festival. Pass the Mic is a virtual play festival intended to “Pass the Mic” and amplify voices of the Global Majority consisting of an evening of […]
Posted on September 25, 2021
“Perhaps that is where our choice lies—in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.” – Elana K. Arnold On the eve of the return to in-person theatre and the company’s expansion to New York, playwright incubator PlayGround has chosen the prompt of “rebirth” as […]
Posted on September 7, 2021
PlayGround-NY, the first East Coast expansion of the celebrated California-based playwright incubator, is pleased to share plans for our inaugural season. The company will shortly announce the Season 1 Writers Pool, 36 early-career NYC-based playwrights competitively selected from more than 90 applications received this summer. Over the course of the upcoming 2021-22 season, these writers […]
Posted on April 2, 2021
PlayGround, a premiere playwright incubator and theatre community hub, has created paid development opportunities for local playwrights in San Francisco since 1994 and Los Angeles since 2012… and, as of this October, now New York City! This latest expansion of PlayGround’s mission to support the development of new voices for the theatre, with a deep […]
Posted on March 12, 2021
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 our inaugural (2021-22) PlayGround-NY Writers Pool. Only members of the Writers Pool are invited to submit for the […]