Posted on July 16, 2021

Lana Richards

Now Accepting Applications for the 2021-22 Directing Apprenticeship Program

PlayGround-LA, Los Angeles’ leading playwright incubator, is now looking for the next generation of great directors. PlayGround-LA will select 3-4 diverse aspiring and/or early-career directors to apprentice with PlayGround-LA during the upcoming Monday Night PlayGround season, kicking off on October 11th  and continuing through March 2022.  Directing Apprentices will assistant direct for a minimum of […]

Posted on July 16, 2021

Lana Richards

Company in the News July-2021

See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we get ready for Season 10 starting in October 2021. Evan Baughfman‘s audio plays, NOT INSIDE and ROOM FOR TWO, were recently produced by Cone Man Running Productions (Houston, Texas) as part of the “War of the Words” playwriting competition. The plays are […]

Posted on June 4, 2021

Lana Richards

Company in the News June-2021

See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we get ready for Season 10 starting in October 2021. Jully Lee will be reading the role of Yuri Kochiyama in YURI & MALCOLM, a play by Tim Toyama presented by HowlRound and The LA Writers Center on June 5 at 11am PT (2pm […]

Posted on May 4, 2021

Jim Kleinmann

Company in the News May-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 (Click HERE!) has recently received 2 distinguished achievement awards from The Kennedy Center for her thesis play, The Write Choice. It also made it to the semi-finals of the 2021 […]

Posted on April 2, 2021

Edna Raia

PlayGround Writers Pool Goes National!

PlayGround, a premiere playwright incubator and theatre community hub, has created paid development opportunities for local playwrights in San Francisco since 1994 and Los Angeles since 2012… and, as of this October, now New York City! This latest expansion of PlayGround’s mission to support the development of new voices for the theatre, with a deep […]

Posted on April 2, 2021

Jim Kleinmann

Best of PlayGround-LA Gala April 12th Playbill

PlayGround-LA presents Season 9 BEST of PLAYGROUND-LA GALA April 12th 2021 7pm PT via Zoom Live Stream Guiding Light by Starina Johnson Directed by Paris McCarthy Gabriel……………………………………………………………Stephanie T. Keefer Joseph………………………………………………………………..Jordan Covington Mary……………………………………………………………………….Christine Liao We Jump Broom by Mildred Inez Lewis Directed by Frieda De Lackner Nell……………………….………………………………………………Krystal Mosley Winny…………………………..………………..………………………Maiya Reaves Courage by Scott Mullen Directed by Ivan Rivas Reggie…………………………………………………………………..Mark Jacobson […]

Posted on April 2, 2021

Jim Kleinmann

Company in the News April 2021

See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we get ready for the April 12th Best of PlayGround-LA Gala.  Jerome Joseph Gentes‘ TigerBear Productions, the creative production company of PlayGround writer and board member, is collaborating on a special experience for Modernism Week 2021 in Palm Springs, CA. Attendees will tour the […]

Posted on March 22, 2021

Jim Kleinmann

Season 9’s Best of PlayGround-LA Gala

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 19, 2021

Jim Kleinmann

The March People’s Choice Award Goes To…..

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 […]