Posted on August 15, 2023
PlayGround, a leading playwright incubator, is now looking for the next generation of great directors. PlayGround invites early-career and aspiring directors resident in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, or Chicago to apply for the 2023-24 Directing Apprenticeship program. Up to three directing apprentices will be selected in each region to […]
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 May 16, 2023
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this May! M.J. Kang’s WATERMELON LOVE, presented at this year’s Best of PlayGround-LA Gala, has been selected to represent PlayGround-LA at the inaugural One PlayGround Festival, taking place June 2-4 at Potrero Stage in San Francisco and simulcast. She is also part of Road […]
Posted on March 20, 2023
The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to Mildred Inez Lewis for her play Louisiana Shoal, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on March 13th live at the Broadwater Second Stage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Mildred! Courtesy of Mildred, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from […]
Posted on March 3, 2023
Are you a Los-Angeles-based early-career or aspiring professional playwright? Have you ever wanted to see your plays performed on stage by leading local professional actors? Do you respond well to deadlines? PlayGround-LA is seeking applications for the 2023-24 (Season 12) Writers Pool. Only members of the Writers Pool are invited to write for the Monday […]
Posted on February 24, 2023
The people have spoken… The February People’s Choice Award goes to Nicki Spencer for her play Ssssuperbly Normal, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on February 13th live at the Broadwater Second Stage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Nicki! Courtesy of Nicki, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from […]
Posted on February 24, 2023
“Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you’re bravely working.” – Rumi. Playwright incubator PlayGround-LA in partnership with Planet Earth Arts has announced the prompt for the sixth and final Monday Night PlayGround staged reading event of its 11th season and the 7th annual Planet Earth Arts New Play Festival, […]
Posted on December 7, 2022
“Bah,” said Scrooge, “Humbug.” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Playwright incubator PlayGround-LA has announced the selected plays and playwrights for its third Monday Night PlayGround staged reading event of its 11th season. Thirty-seven Los Angeles writers had just four-and-a-half days to generate their original scripts inspired by the prompt “HOLIDAY SPIRIT” as they vied for […]
Posted on November 29, 2022
Dear Friends, In the last year, PlayGround has triumphantly returned to in-person performances in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, all while growing our community with the second year of PlayGround New York, and our newest expansion to Chicago in September. Because we are a proud artistic home for so many, this year we reached […]
Posted on October 26, 2022
Monday Night PlayGround is all about potential: the potential of new writers for the stage, finding inspiration in a prompt, writing a short play, and then seeing that short play performed for the first time, live before other theatre makers and theatre-goers. The potential of new stories — comedic, dramatic and those that defy a […]