Company in the News March 2026

See what PlayGround-LA Writers and Company Members are up to this March including: MICHAEL P. ADAMS, ANDRES AGUSTIN BARRERA, EVAN BAUGHFMAN, ALLIE COSTA, BRIGGS HATTON, JONATHAN JOSEPHSON, MATTHEW HENERSON, MILDRED INEZ LEWIS, ABEL MARQUEZ, SCARLETT REDMOND, TEDDY ALEXIS RODRIGUEZ, BAYLEE SHLICHTMAN, JANET SONG, and JO YUAN!

JANET SONG  continues her run in Poetry for the People: The June Jordan Experience at the Fountain Theatre through March 29. All tickets are Name Your Own Price! TICKETS.@janetsongla

ALLIE COSTA recently booked and filmed four movies, two live-action and two animated. Her play Remembrance, which began at PlayGround-LA, had a sold-out run at the Cut to the Chase Festival in Chicago. Her critically acclaimed play Two Girls and monologue Glitter and Smoke were both recently presented in London, and her play Heartfelt had a reading in Florida. Strength in Numbers was selected for the One Lucky Monologue Showcase – catch the livestream on March 14th! For more information, visit http://www.alliecosta.com and http://www.imdb.me/alliecosta

ANDRES AGUSTIN BARRERA (he/him/el) PlayGround-LA Directing Apprenticeship alum was one of ten students nationwide to be selected as a recipient of the prestigious Cody Renard Richard Scholarship, a program supporting emerging theatre leaders of color in non-performance disciplines. As part of the cohort, Andrés will participate mentorship from industry and Broadway professionals, culminating into an all-expenses-paid cohort summit in New York City and receive a $10,000 scholarship to support his studies at UCLA and his ongoing artistic development. FULL ARTICLE. @andres.agustin04

HOWLINGLY GREAT NEWS! EVAN BAUGHFMANS sci-fi/horror play, THE WOLF MAN: 2092, has been published in the Radical Books anthology, “With Teeth,” alongside wonderful wolfy tails (tales) written by other talented artists! 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.” More info about the book (which benefits the Lakota Wolf Preserve!) is available on Amazon and wherever else books are sold. 

SCARLETT REDMOND’S latest feature film project THE CONSPIRACISTS is now streaming for free on Tubi! STREAM NOW.@soscarlettsays

JO YUAN will be part of the cast in the first public presentation of Dough Broke, a new play by Sarah Cho, directed by Rebecca Wear. Happening on Saturday, March 21, this reading will showcase the first of four commissioned works as part of The Neighborhood Project. We hope you can catch the other readings to celebrate Artists at Play’s inaugural playwriting program. MORE INFO. @itsme.joyuan

MILDRED INEZ LEWIS After Passage will be produced by the Distress Signals Project in LA, directed by Bairton Brown (Stonehaven Studios, LA). @TheMil10

BRIGGS HATTON’S play The Love Meter (PlayGround-LA Audience Award, 2022) will be performed in EXIT Theatre’s 2026 Short Play Festival, June 18-28, up in the beautiful lost coast of Arcata, CA. @briggery

JONATHAN JOSEPHSON’S newest short play Dantooine Farmboy will be part of Force of Nature Productions 2026: A Rush Odyssey, March 13-15 in NoHo. Next month, his short comedy Dark Druids and Their Dark Jars will have a two-week run as a part of  “Nightshade: Vernal” at Memoriam Development at Side Street Studio Arts in Elgin, IL. Eight of his adaptations of classic horror literature, along with all of Wicked Lit Volumes I and II are now published by Concord Theatricals, available now! More at jonathanjosephson.com, @writeJJwrite.

MICHAEL P. ADAMS’S Art of the Craft, originally written for PlayGround-LA a few years ago, is part of the Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble’s Festival 10, which takes place March 27-29 in Brentwood, CA (the Northern California one).

BAYLEE SHLICHTMAN’S Symbiotic will be in EST/LA’s Winterfest March 21st at 3pm. Marichka, an aquarist at the Jellyfish Museum in Kyiv, begins to form an unlikely connection with a veteran of the Russo-Ukrainian war while trying to keep the memory of her friend alive.

MATTHEW HENERSON continues to recur as Special Agent Carl Laughlin on NCIS: ORIGINS.  He’s currently appearing as Von Strack in AMADEUS at the Pasadena Playhouse through March 15, and will appear in the SAG-AFTRA Radio Plays at the Gene Autry Museum on March 26.

ABEL MARQUEZ was honored as one of this year’s Gold Medallion honorees, which honors individuals that have made extraordinary contributions to the teaching and producing of theatre, and services of ACTF. These individuals and organizations have demonstrated deep commitment to the development of the American College Theatre Festival and the expansion of theatre arts education. According to Festival coordinators and previous honorees, the Medallion honors those who have “significantly dedicated their time, artistry and enthusiasm” to excellence in educational theatre. The Gold Medallion is widely regarded as one of the great honors in the field of theatre arts and education.

TEDDY ALEXIS RODRIGUEZ, PHD will direct for CASA 0101’s Brown and Out Festival at the Renberg Theater and for the Frida Kahlo Theatre Festival.