Posted on October 1, 2021
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we begin the 2021-22 season! Jully Lee is directing a live Zoom play reading of STAINS by Sarah Cho with Moving Arts’ MadLab Theatre Festival, playing on October 9th, as well as an excerpt from LONG by Charlie Oh, playing on Oct. 9th […]
Posted on September 25, 2021
“Perhaps that is where our choice lies—in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.” – Elana K. Arnold On the eve of the return to in-person theatre and PlayGround’s expansion to New York, Los Angeles playwright incubator PlayGround-LA has chosen the prompt of “rebirth” […]
Posted on September 7, 2021
PlayGround-LA, Los Angeles’s leading incubator for a new generation of playwrights, is pleased to share plans for our tenth season and a return to in-person performance. The company has recently announced the Season 10 Writers Pool, competitively selected from open applications of short plays. Over the course of the upcoming 2021-22 season, these writers will […]
Posted on August 27, 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 launches a new digital series under her self-confidence-building lifestyle brand, Yes Queen, called Love It or Lose It. The six-episode series follows Daysha as she works with fashion influencer and Pero […]
Posted on August 2, 2021
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we get ready for Season 10 starting in October 2021. Carla Vega wrote and will perform a new original work in Matriarch, a transformative theatre experience that explores the roles women play in our patriarchal society, and the urgent need to transform that dynamic. […]
Posted on July 16, 2021
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
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
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 10, 2021
PlayGround-LA has announced the recipient of its 2021 PlayGround-LA new play commission: Daysha Veronica. Over the next year, Daysha will expand her ten-minute play, Waiting for Umoja, into a new full-length play. Originally written for the December 14, 2020 Monday Night PlayGround “Illuminate”, the short play was the December People’s Choice Award winner and was […]
Posted on May 4, 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 […]