Posted on August 5, 2022
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this August! Sylvia Cervantes Blush is currently in pre-production for two shows. She makes her LATC debut with the world premiere of Lily Rushing’s (Genízaro) DESERT STORIES FOR LOST GIRLS (learn more here.) She will be traveling to Dallas in the near future for […]
Posted on July 28, 2022
PlayGround Announces Return to In-Person Gala Celebrating ONE PLAYGROUND: Bay Area, Los Angeles, NYC & Chicago on September 19, 2022 / 5:30pm-8pm PDT (7:30pm-10pm CDT / 8:30pm-11pm EDT). In-Person at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage with satellites in LA, NY, Chicago & throughout the country. On Monday, September 19, PlayGround will host its annual fundraising gala, celebrating the national scope […]
Posted on July 9, 2022
The 2022-23 season at PlayGround is just around the corner, and before it arrives we want to say thank you to our brilliant community! Audience and crew, playwrights and directors, actors and designers: the gift of your time and energy makes it possible for PlayGround to continue fostering great art and artists. We are grateful […]
Posted on July 9, 2022
PlayGround, a leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub helping to uplift historically underrepresented voices for the stage since 1994, has announced four new play commissions for PlayGround’s 29th Season (2022-23). They include three winners of the Best of PlayGround People’s Choice Award – Jennifer Le Blanc (Best of PlayGround 26), Jessica June Rowe (Best […]
Posted on July 8, 2022
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this July! Emily Brauer Rogers‘ play DREAM INC. was part of The Vagrancy’s Blossoming series. To check out an audio version of the play, please see here. Debba Rofheart is Peter Quince in Open Fist Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s A MIDSUMMERS NIGHTS DREAM. […]
Posted on June 8, 2022
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this June! Alexia Jasmene is performing in TALES OF THE TRANCESTORS at Hollywood Fringe Festival thanks to Celebration Theatre. An all trans cast, production (Amanda Krueger- they/them) and directing (Shaan Dasani- he/him), each trancestor was picked by each performer and written and devised by […]
Posted on May 5, 2022
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this May! Hugo Carbajal is performing at Cal Shakes, in Berkeley, as Tybalt, Paris, and Balthazar in ROMEO Y JULIET, a bilingual adaptation by Karen Zacarias. Directed by KJ Sanchez. May 25 – June 19, 2022. Learn more and buy tickets here. Jennie Webb‘s […]
Posted on April 9, 2022
PlayGround-LA presents Season 10 BEST OF PLAYGROUND-LA GALA April 11, 2022 7pm PT Broadwater Main Stage & Vimeo Live Simulcast ACKNOWLEDGING THE LEGACY OF THE LAND WE INHABIT PlayGround-LA acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Chumash, Tongva, and Kizh (“keech”), the original inhabitants of Los Angeles. As the past and […]
Posted on April 8, 2022
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this April! Jully Lee is the artistic director of COLD TOFU, the nation’s first and longest running Asian American improv company, and a producing director with Playground-LA. She is currently directing WHERE I’M FROM by Howard Ho for CTG’s “Community Stories” digital series and […]
Posted on April 1, 2022
Help celebrate the best writers and short works from the PlayGround-LA tenth season! Join us for the BEST OF PLAYGROUND-LA GALA, in person at the Broadwater Main Stage & online Simulcast/On-Demand on Monday, April 11th, 2022 at 7pm PT. The Best of PlayGround-LA Gala features a special in-person and simulcast presentation of six short plays […]