Posted on October 4, 2019
PlayGround-LA kicks off its 8th season on Monday, October 14, 8 PM at the Broadwater Main Stage (home of Sacred Fools Theatre Company) with an all-new season of the celebrated Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series. The topic for the first round, announced this morning, is “TRICK OR TREAT”. “I got a rock.” – Charlie […]
Posted on September 11, 2019
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we prepare to launch Season 8! Vincent Terrell Durham‘s POLAR BEARS, BLACK BOYS & PRAIRIE FRINGED ORCHIDS, a PlayGround/Planet Earth Arts co-commission based on Vincent’s PlayGround-LA short play, was a 2019 PlayGround Festival of New Works finalist where it received a professional developmental workshop […]
Posted on September 11, 2019
PlayGround-LA, Los Angeles’s leading incubator for a new generation of playwrights, is pleased to announce the thirty-six playwrights selected for the 2019-20 PlayGround-LA Writers Pool. Over the course of the upcoming season (PlayGround-LA’s eighth), these writers will generate over 150 original short plays, of which 36 will be developed as part of Monday Night PlayGround, […]
Posted on September 9, 2019
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 14 at the Broadwater Main Stage, and continuing through March 9, 2020. Directing Apprentices will each […]
Posted on August 8, 2019
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we close out Season 7! Desiree’ York‘s play THE PUPPETEER will receive its world premiere at Detroit Repertory Theatre for a ten week run from January 9-March 15, 2020. The commission of her one woman show FRACTURED recently had a staged reading at Dayton […]
Posted on May 3, 2019
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we close out Season 7! Amanda L. Andrei’s BLACK SKY received a staged reading in May at Relative Theatrics’ Playwrights Voiced festival in Laramie, Wyoming and a staged reading in June at the Forbes Center for the Performing Arts at James Madison University in […]
Posted on April 1, 2019
See what PlayGround-LA Writers and Alumni are up to as we prepare for the April 29th PlayGround-LA Gala! David Meyers‘ play WE WILL NOT BE SILENT just opened in Seattle. A new short play of his will premiere at Skylight theatre next month, and as an actor, he just booked a new webseries. He is […]
Posted on March 19, 2019
PlayGround-LA, Los Angeles’s incubator for a new generation of playwrights, caps off its seventh season on Monday evening, April 29, at the Broadwater Main Stage with the 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 […]
Posted on March 13, 2019
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 our 2019-20 Writers Pool. Members of the Writers Pool are invited to write for the Monday Night PlayGround short […]
Posted on March 12, 2019
The March People’s Choice Award Goes to….. The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to Desireé York for her short play, FLOATING, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on March 11th at the Broadwater Main Stage. Congratulations, Desireé ! Courtesy of Ms. York, we’re pleased to share the […]