Company in the News March-2025

See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this March!

Tim Bryant’s 10-minute comedy “On Delivery” has been selected for NYC’s Fresh Fruit Festival 10-minute play competition for new LGBT plays March 24-30 at Theatre for the New City in Manhattan. https://freshfruitfestival.com for more details. Also, Tim’s short family drama “The Interloper” will be presented in a staged reading on March 8, 2025 by Surfside Playhouse in Cocoa Beach, Florida as part of their Readers’ Theater: From the Script to the Stand program.

Lauren Gorski is celebrating Exposition Review’s 10 year anniversary! Come join Expo at a literary extravaganza at Truly LA on Thursday, March 27 at 7PM. Many PlayGrounders have been published in our issues, and we’re excited to celebrate with readings from our past issues. Click here for more information

Allie Costa recently dropped by two recording studios for two different projects, supplying voiceover for a film, then singing songs for a musical soundtrack. Her play How I Know Her runs March 28th-30th at Bunbury Players in New York. Failure to Communicate was selected for a festival in North Carolina. Don’t Fear the Reaper, which began at PlayGround-LA, was part of the Nightshade Festival in Illinois, and Domesticated was performed in Indiana. Learn more here

Mildred Inez Lewis has two productions coming up. Through Water Into Blood will be at The Nature Place in LaCrosse, WI in April. (Un)bothered is part of AfroSolo at San Francisco’s Rafiki Coalition on February 28th.

Matthew Henerson continues to recur on the newly-renewed NCIS: ORIGINS as NIS Special Agent Carl Loughlin. He is also writing a one-person play commissioned by the Theatre Department at the University of California, San Diego.

Evan Baughfman’s sci-fi/horror play, THE WOLF MAN: 2092, will have its Chicago premiere this April, as part of Otherworld Theatre Company’s Paragon Science Fiction and Fantasy Play Festival. What is THE WOLF MAN: 2092 about? “Monstrous secrets are revealed to a pair of astronauts as they approach their long-awaited destination: the Red Planet, Mars.” Click here for tickets

Maria D. Smith has launched a new scripted sketch comedy podcast entitled FRESH PRESSED NONSENSE. Available wherever podcasts are available, FRESH PRESSED NONSENSE is a hot new take on social, cultural, and political themes. Hosted by Ri and her plant Franklin live from The.Juiceri, you’re bound to get your cup filled with fresh commentary that will at least make you say “hmmm”, if not make you laugh out loud. If you are a fan of shows like IN LIVING COLOR, A BLACK LADY SKETCH SHOW, and ZIWE, then this is the perfect podcast for you. If you like what you hear, be sure to follow us on Instagram @the.juiceri for more fresh content.

Janet Song will be participating in two readings for Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA’s Winterfest of new plays. “Perspectives on the Wanli Emperor” by Stephen Dierkes on 3/29 and “Rooftop Koreans” by J. Kwang Lee on 4/6. See link for full schedule and tickets.

Rachel Borders’ new play THE DEATH DOULA is having a reading on Tuesday March 4 at 7:30 pm at the Road Theatre in North Hollywood. Directed by Carlyle King. Featuring: Taylor Gilbert, Kate Huffman, Nick Apostolina, Paige Simunovich, Alaska Jackson, and Robert Axelrod. Click here for tickets

Jennie Webb’s latest full length, WOUND CARE, will be presented on Monday, March 24th at part of the Road Theatre Company’s WORD Reading Series. DIrected by Jen Bloom, the reading features Jessica Jade Andres, Susan Diol and Emily Jerez. WOUND CARE is, in part, a crack baby reparations play about searching for what will make things right and perhaps healing what you didn’t know was broken.The play was first written and developed while Jennie was a 2023/24 PlayGround Writer-in-Residence. Click here for more information

Jon Gentry is performing the lead role in a staged reading of Steve Harper’s latest play “True Adventures for Men” part of the Road Theatre’s Under Construction writing program on Monday, 3/10, at 7:30pm. Click here for more information

Jonathan Josephson will lead a workshop with Play Cafe called THE ART OF THEATRICAL ADAPTATION: techniques for bringing source material to life as stage experiences, on Sunday, April 6. His marshmallow comedy Chubby Bunny will have its 30th and 31st production in  Meridian, ID and Stoughton, WI.