Posted on November 30, 2021
As the lights go up, Peet’s and Starbucks roll out their snowflake-embossed cups and ugly sweaters re-emerge from the closet, it’s clear… the holiday season has begun! PlayGround offers its own take on the holidays with a new round of Monday Night PlayGround, featuring original short plays inspired by your favorite (and perhaps not-so-favorite) holiday […]
Posted on November 29, 2021
In an interview with TheaterMania, playwright Mansa Ra (fka Jiréh Breon Holder) referred to those who have returned to the theatre in 2021 as “artistic first responders.” We found that phrase incredibly impactful and resonant. Over the last two years, we have celebrated our first responders, our nurses and doctors, grocery store employees, and sanitation workers who have […]
Posted on November 5, 2021
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this November! Jully Lee just booked a guest star on YOUNG SHELDON that shoots this month and will be performing in several online play readings: OH, I REMEMBER THE BLACK BIRCH by Velina Hasu Houston on 11/9 (with Moment Magazine), FIREWATER by Samantha Marchant […]
Posted on October 29, 2021
“Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long.” -Shakespeare Following the successful opening of Season 10, Los Angeles playwright incubator PlayGround recently announced the prompt for the November Monday Night PlayGround short play staged reading event. Thirty-six Los Angeles writers had just four-and-a-half days to generate their original scripts inspired by the prompt […]
Posted on August 27, 2021
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we get ready for Season 10 starting in October 2021. Daysha Veronica launches a new digital series under her self-confidence-building lifestyle brand, Yes Queen, called Love It or Lose It. The six-episode series follows Daysha as she works with fashion influencer and Pero […]
Posted on May 10, 2021
PlayGround-LA has announced the recipient of its 2021 PlayGround-LA new play commission: Daysha Veronica. Over the next year, Daysha will expand her ten-minute play, Waiting for Umoja, into a new full-length play. Originally written for the December 14, 2020 Monday Night PlayGround “Illuminate”, the short play was the December People’s Choice Award winner and was […]
Posted on March 22, 2021
PlayGround-LA, Los Angeles’s incubator for a new generation of playwrights, caps off its ninth season on Monday evening, April 12, with Best of PlayGround-LA, a one-night gala celebration of the best playwrights and short plays selected from more than 150 submissions and 36 works developed as part of the season’s Monday Night PlayGround staged reading […]
Posted on March 12, 2021
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 2021-22 (Season 10) Writers Pool. Only members of the Writers Pool are invited to write for the Monday […]
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 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 […]