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 […]
Posted on April 2, 2021
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Posted on March 12, 2021
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 2021-22 (Season 10) Writers Pool. Only members of the Writers Pool are invited to write for the Monday […]
Posted on March 5, 2021
See what PlayGround-LA Writers, Alumni, and Company Members are up to as we get ready for the March 8th Monday Night PlayGround on Zoom! Mildred Inez Lewis‘ “WE DREAMED OURSELVES” will be produced by the Dragon Eggs Short Play Incubator in the Bay Area. Her short play ECLOSION will be published by NextStage Press as part […]
Posted on March 5, 2021
PlayGround-LA presents Season 9 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “Fearless” March 8th 2021 7pm PT via Zoom Live Stream The Jump by Rachel Borders Directed by Frieda de Lackner Carl………………………………………………………..Rogelio Douglas III Alex………………………………………………………………..Christine Liao Jab, Cross, Hook by Mildred Inez Lewis Directed by Demetrius Wren Jenny……………………….……………………………..Christina Wren Freddie…………………………..………………..…………Julio Hanson Uncaged by Evan Baughfman Directed by Jim Kleinmann Rodney Fox……………………………………………………Tahmus Rounds […]