Company in the News November 2026

See what PlayGround-LA Writers and Company Members are up to this month including: Julie Marchiano, Michael P. Adams, Evan Baughfman, Allie Costa, Jonathan Josephson and Abel Marquez!

Julie Marchiano will be performing in “OBSESSED: A Comedy Show About Your Hyper-Fixations” on Monday, November 16th at 8pm at nico’s. The show invites comedian guests to share and unpack their most intense, niche, and unfiltered personal hyper-fixations—ranging from oddly specific pop-culture rabbit holes to unhinged obsessions. TICKETS

Evan Baughfman’s very short Christmas horror play, COLE AGAN, will have its world premiere in the Gi60 NYC One-Minute Play Festival, NOVEMBER 12th through 15th, in NY, NY! What is COLE AGAN about? “Santa Claus is disturbed by a child’s letter.” More info (and tickets) can be found here at: https://thetanknyc.org/calendar-1/gi60?rq=Gi60 ALSO… The Horror Writers Association has published OCTOBER IN CHRISTMAS, Evan’s brand-new non-fiction piece about wintry holiday horrors! Read it here at: https://horror.org/halloween-haunts-october-in-christmas-by-evan-baughfman/

Allie Costa recently booked and filmed a very timely sci-fi movie – Stay tuned! Her plays She Has Seen the Wolf, Can You Keep a Secret?, and Don’t Shoot the Messenger Pigeon, all of which began at PlayGround-LA, were selected for UpStage Napa Valley’s PlayFest, running November 13th-15th in St. Helena, California. Classified will be presented November 5th and November 8th in London. Main Character Energy and Metatheatrical were both selected for Gi60, running November 12th-15th in New York City. Unfinished Business, Live A Little, A Source of Comfort, and Two Girls will be presented November 15th by Beehive Theatre Company in New York. Allie appears in a number of films recently screened in Los Angeles, Poland, and Mexico. Allie’s play Don’t Fear the Reaper, which also began at PlayGround-LA, was performed at a special one-night-only event in New York. For more information about any of these projects, visit http://www.alliecosta.com and http://www.imdb.me/alliecosta

Abel Marquez recently wrapped production as I.C. on Witch by Jen Silverman produced by Bethesda Rep. He is also directing Almost, Maine in Hacienda Heights, while also producing Brown and Out 9 with TNH Productions.
Jonathan Josephson is very tired. His show “Wicked Lit 2026: La Llorona and The Headless Horseman” ran October 29-November 2 at Chance Theater and was a smash success. Many thanks to those who were able to make it down for the spooky shenanigans! Up next is a reading of a short plat through the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights at Westwood Library on November 7, and preparation for a staged reading of a new play “Life is Pain, a Comedy!” which will be funded through a City if Pasadena Individual Artist Grant. MORE INFO
Michael P. Adams‘s short play “Far From the Tree,” originally written for PlayGround’s prompt to adapt a classic folktale, is getting a reading the weekend of November 13 at Genesius Theatre in Reading, PA. His full-length play “Vestiges” is getting a public reading December 7 at The Road Theatre as part of their Under Construction program.