Posted on October 23, 2020
“Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.” -Author Brodi Ashton. Today 36 Los-Angeles writers will set out on a hero’s journey, venturing into the unknown to write bold new 10-minute plays inspired by the prompt, “Hero’s Journey”, and written in just four-and-a-half days! On November 9 at […]
Posted on October 1, 2020
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we get ready for the October 12th Monday Night PlayGround on Zoom! Allie Costa‘s timely film FUTURE SHOCK is screening October 10th-18th at the BoxFest Detroit Film Festival. Allie wrote, directed, and performed in the film. Also look for Allie in YOU ME […]
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 […]
Posted on September 23, 2020
PlayGround-LA, Los Angeles’ leading playwright incubator and theatre community hub, has announced that the 9th season of its celebrated Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series will move online this year, beginning October 12 at 7pm PT and continuing on second Mondays through March 2021 (PlayGround-LA’s sister company, PlayGround, will run on third Mondays, also online). […]
Posted on September 9, 2020
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we get ready for the October 12th Monday Night PlayGround! Michael P. Adams‘ play, THE MATADOR, originally written from a PlayGround-LA theme, will have a reading this fall as part of Fusion Theatre’s The Seven New Works Festival. Amanda L. Andrei is teaching […]
Posted on August 24, 2020
PlayGround-LA, Los Angeles’s leading incubator for a new generation of playwrights, has selected this year’s Writers Pool for the 2020-21 Season, competitively selected from open applications of short plays. Over the course of the upcoming season (PlayGround-LA’s 9th!), these writers will generate over 150 original short plays, of which 36 will be developed as part […]
Posted on August 22, 2020
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 October 12 and continuing through March 8, 2021, all online and socially distanced via Zoom live stream. […]
Posted on August 5, 2020
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to! Sylvia Cervantes Blush is currently producing/directing a Zoom to Video play with 35 actors across 17 households ranging in age of 4-50+ . She’s getting into good trouble by working with the amazing Company of Angels on their first virtual play festival “What’s Going […]
Posted on July 7, 2020
PlayGround-LA has announced the recipient of its 2020 PlayGround-LA play commission: Daysha Veronica. Over the next year, Daysha will expand her ten-minute play, Mother Earth Day, into a new full-length play. Originally written for the March 9, 2020 Monday Night PlayGround “Planet Earth Arts Night”, the short play was the March People’s Choice Award winner […]
Posted on July 6, 2020
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to! Daysha Veronica has been selected for a summer internship with the Television Academy. She will be working in scripted series development at Valhalla Entertainment, the production company behind producing The Walking Dead, Fear The Walking Dead, Terminator, Aliens and The Incredible Hulk. She was […]