Posted on August 14, 2023
PlayGround-NY, the first East Coast expansion of the celebrated California-based playwright incubator, is pleased to share plans for its third season and first fully in-person with the announcement of the Season 3 Writers Pool, 36 early-career NYC-based playwrights competitively selected from applications received this summer. Over the course of the upcoming 2023-24 season, these writers […]
Posted on August 12, 2023
PlayGround has announced its PlayGround Heroes, three individuals/organizations who have made a notable impact on PlayGround and the PlayGround community over the past three decades, to be honored at the One PlayGround Gala. PlayGround’s annual fundraiser will take place in-person and online on Monday evening, September 18 at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage, Los Angeles’ Broadwater […]
Posted on August 11, 2023
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this August! Jully Lee is performing in the world premier of HELLO KITTY MUST DIE The Musical at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, now playing through August 29. For more information, click here. Wiley Naman Strasser will be performing in Crave, by Sarah Kane produced by Stairwell […]
Posted on August 4, 2023
PlayGround has announced the 2023-24 Producing Fellows, an expanded class of eight next-gen theatre leaders drawn from across the country and who will work with PlayGround’s artistic staff and producing team on the company’s award-winning incubator programs over the next year in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Fellows gain hands-on […]
Posted on July 1, 2023
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this July! Dana Leslie Goldstein‘s short play EAT DESSERT FIRST will be presented by Valley Players in Napa, CA. Dana’s comic book musical CYCLONE and the Pig-Faced Lady (with music by Rima Fand) will have a developmental workshop at Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga (TN) in July, […]
Posted on June 9, 2023
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this June! From June 14th-18th, Dana Leslie Goldstein‘s short play FRAGILE will be part of the “Blurring Boundaries” festival at Hudson Guild Theatre, produced by New Ambassadors Theatre Company. Tickets available here. On June 14th, an excerpt from Dana’s very new play 3 SISTERS, 3 WITCHES, […]
Posted on May 26, 2023
Don’t miss your chance to be part of PlayGround’s second annual Free-Play Festival! Applications have been extended through June 16. The Free-Play Festival is a three-week non-curated fringe-style platform to highlight new works from the national PlayGround community and beyond, offering each artist team three public performances in a state-of-the-art San Francisco theatre, in person […]
Posted on May 18, 2023
PlayGround is excited to announce immediate openings to join the 2023-2024 Producing Fellowship, designed to foster the next generation of leadership for the American Theatre. We are looking for individuals passionate about theatre and looking to make an impact on the field while developing the skill set to do so for a living. Candidates must […]
Posted on May 16, 2023
See what PlayGround-NY Writers and Company are up to this May! Gaven D. Trinidad‘s play THE HOLIDAY PARTY, originally presented at the Best of PlayGround-NY Gala, has been selected to represent PlayGround-NY at the inaugural One PlayGround Festival, June 2-4 at Potrero Stage and simulcast. Jacob Marx Rice’s A THOUSAND NATURAL SHOCKS was presented as […]
Posted on April 21, 2023
PlayGround-NY presents Season 2 BEST OF PLAYGROUND-NY GALA April 24th, 2023 7pm ET The Producers Club & On-Demand thru May 31 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 burroughs […]