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 […]
Posted on April 1, 2022
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 2022-23 (Season 11) Writers Pool. Only members of the Writers Pool are invited to write for the Monday […]
Posted on March 11, 2022
PlayGround-LA presents Season 10 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “Child’s Play: Adapted Nursery Rhymes” March 14, 2022 7pm PT Broadwater Black Box & 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 […]
Posted on March 4, 2022
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to this March! Two of Starina Johnson’s plays that originated with PlayGround-LA, Daniel the Brave and Guiding Light, have been included in a short play festival at The Wallis. Tickets now on sale here. RECKONING features writers that illuminate, confront, and surprise audiences with witty […]