Posted on March 19, 2021
The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to Nicki Spencer for her short play, The Speck, presented as a staged reading via Zoom live stream on March 8th. Congratulations, Nicki! Courtesy of Nicki, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! The Speckby Nicki Spencer Character […]
Posted on March 5, 2021
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we get ready for the March 8th Monday Night PlayGround on Zoom! Mildred Inez Lewis‘ “WE DREAMED OURSELVES” will be produced by the Dragon Eggs Short Play Incubator in the Bay Area. Her short play ECLOSION will be published by NextStage Press as part […]
Posted on February 19, 2021
“ If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?” – Confucius Fear can be overcome, it is up to you to make that decision to do so. By overcoming fears, you will inspire others to do the same. Inspiring is […]
Posted on February 12, 2021
The people have spoken … The February People’s Choice Award goes to Nicki Spencer for her short play, For Mālama ʻĀina and Linda and Kyle from Booger Hole, presented as a staged reading on Zoom on February 8th. Congratulations, Nicki! Courtesy of Ms. Spencer, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning […]
Posted on January 22, 2021
“Myth is a past with a future, exercising itself in the present.” ― Carlos Fuentes The great myths and legends of a people are often handed down, generation to generation, through an oral tradition and provide guidance and inspiration even to this day. So it is that 36 Los Angeles writers will look to the […]
Posted on December 24, 2020
“We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.” ― Gwendolyn Brooks Today 36 Los-Angeles writers will unite in pursuit of a common goal, to craft compelling stories exploring healing, unity, and restoration. Written in just four-and-a-half days, these writers will take the theme “Reunification” and vie […]
Posted on November 30, 2020
A Letter from PlayGround-LA Alumnus Vincent Terrell Durham, Author of “Polar Bears, Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids” Dear Friends, Theatre lives on. Despite the worst pandemic of our lifetimes, the closure of performance spaces across the globe and record unemployment among theatre-makers, theatre is still alive. Barely, perhaps on life-support, but still alive. It […]
Posted on November 27, 2020
“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” -Anne Frank PlayGround shines a light on the Holiday Season with a special round of Monday Night PlayGround, on Monday, December 14, at 7pm PT, with six original short plays inspired by this month’s prompt, “ILLUMINATE.” PlayGround Writers have just four-and-a-half days […]
Posted on October 27, 2020
The PlayGround Solo Performance Festival is PlayGround’s annual celebration of the best in California solo performance. Now going on its fourth year, the next Solo Fest will take place January 22-February 7, 2021 via Zoom live stream, with nine double-bill performances over three weeks. REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS PlayGround invites submission of proposals by California-based artists for participation […]
Posted on September 29, 2020
PlayGround-LA launches this year’s rendition of their Monday Night PlayGround reading series with an invitation to the newly selected Writers Pool of 36 members to create and submit scripts for this year’s first Monday Night PlayGround. Honoring the recent 100th Anniversary of women’s suffrage in the USA and as the only Monday Night PlayGround to […]