Posted on August 26, 2024
PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share plans for its 30th anniversary season. The season announcement coincides with the release of the 2024-25 Writers Pools, 144 early-career playwrights in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, who will participate in PlayGround’s signature incubator program, […]
Posted on July 31, 2024
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this August! Howard Ho is a Finalist in the Samuel French OOB Festival! His play BEETHOVEN’S THIRD will be presented in a staged reading on August 13th 6:30pm at the Vineyard Theatre. BEETHOVEN’S THIRD was originally developed for Playground-NY. It will be directed by fellow Playground-NY […]
Posted on July 18, 2024
PlayGround has announced the 2024-25 Producing Fellows, a vibrant and diverse class of seven next-gen theatre leaders drawn from across the country and who will work with PlayGround’s artistic staff and national producing teams over the next year in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Fellows gain hands-on experience in the […]
Posted on July 1, 2024
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this July! Danielle E. Moore’s musical “Audrey” recently made its Philadelphia debut in MusiCoLab’s June 24th showcase at the Drake. Her new musical “Ink & Paint” will have the first part of its West Coast developmental premiere on July 5th and 6th at the Santa Monica […]
Posted on June 18, 2024
PlayGround will mark its third decade of incubating new plays by hosting simultaneous parties in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco on Monday, September 16, 2024. The events, which will also be livestreamed, will feature a starry array of playwright alumni, including many of the busiest names in theatre today. The PlayGround […]
Posted on June 7, 2024
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this June! Austin Ku (2024 PlayGround NY Directing Apprentice) will be co-directing a new play, Parity, for Pan Asian Rep’s NuWorks 2024 Festival, written by PlayGround member Howard Ho, and starring/co-director PlayGround member Jully Lee! There will be two fully staged performances at Theatre Row Off-Broadway […]
Posted on May 9, 2024
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the lineup for PlayGround’s 2nd Annual Best of the Best of PlayGround. This unique showcase is a culmination of the 2023-24 Monday Night seasons hosted in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. The line-up includes Bessie in Medias Res by Robyn Brooks (San Francisco), Love Language of Origin […]
Posted on April 26, 2024
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this May! Danielle E. Moore’s feminist farce-in-verse, “Merely Players,” was selected for Heller Theatre Co.’s Second Sunday Serials reading series. The piece, which was originally written for PlayGround-NY’s January 2024 “Shakespeare Multiverse” prompt, will be presented on Sunday, May 12th at 7PM CST at Studio 308, […]
Posted on April 15, 2024
PlayGround-NY presents Season 3 BEST of PLAYGROUND(NY) ’24 April 22nd, 2024 7pm ET Live at The Producers Club + 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 […]
Posted on April 3, 2024
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the selected plays and playwrights for our annual ten-minute play fest, BEST OF PLAYGROUND(NY) ’24, including first-time festival writers Claire Abramovitz, Anthony Anello, Howard Ho, Lyra Nalan, and returning “Best of” alumni Bailey Jordan Garcia and Vicky Pham. PlayGround will celebrate these artists and their place within the next generation […]