Posted on June 11, 2018
On May 14, PlayGround celebrated the conclusion of its sixth season with a capacity-crowd performance of the best short plays from the 2017-18 season, the Best of PlayGround-LA Gala, featuring works by Vincent Terrell Durham, Julianne Jigour, Jonathan Josephson, Arthur Keng, Nicki Spencer, and Mercedes Segesvary. And, then, at the conclusion of the program, when […]
Posted on June 11, 2018
See what PlayGround-LA Writers and Alumni are up to! Diana Burbano’s punk rock play FABULOUS MONSTERS will be seen at the Keegan Theatre in Washington DC on June 18th. Her commissioned play ABANDONED will open at Creede Repertory Theatre on July 12th. Mildred Lewis’s short comedy CAST ME! was at the Breath of Fire Latina […]
Posted on May 9, 2018
See what PlayGround-LA Writers and Alumni are up to as we prepare for the May 14 Best of PlayGround-LA Gala! Jonathan Josephson’s play MAX HANDS will be included in the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwright’s one-act festival Kiss My Axe (Hollywood Fringe Festival, June 2-24). Her horror-farce RUNED – riffing on M.R James “Casting the […]
Posted on April 5, 2018
See what PlayGround-LA Writers and Alumni are up to as we prepare for the May 14 Best of PlayGround-LA Gala! Nayna Agrawal’s play, DHARMA, is a semi-finalist with Play-Makers, a Spokane, WA-based theater. Her play, SLUT, will be performed with the Hunger & Thirst Theatre on April 9th in Manhattan. Tickets can be purchased online! […]
Posted on March 29, 2018
PlayGround-LA, Los Angeles’s incubator for a new generation of playwrights, caps off its sixth season on Monday evening, May 14 at the Zephyr Theatre 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 season’s […]
Posted on March 22, 2018
The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to Arthur Keng for his short play, Measured Reality, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on March 12 at the Zephyr Theatre. Congratulations, Arthur! Courtesy of Mr. Keng, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! MEASURED […]
Posted on March 15, 2018
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? You’re in luck! PlayGround-LA is seeking applications for our 2018-2019 Writers Pool. Member of the Writers Pool can submit their work for the Monday […]
Posted on March 2, 2018
“If you don’t know what to do, there’s actually a chance of doing something new.” – Philip Glass On Monday evening, March 12, PlayGround-LA concludes its 6th season of Monday Night PlayGround with a special “Musical Theatre Night,” inspired by and featuring the music of Philip Glass. The playwrights have just four-and-a-half days to generate […]
Posted on March 1, 2018
See what PlayGround-LA Writers and Alumni are up to as we prepare for the March 12 round of Monday Night PlayGround. Open Fist Theatre’s One Year Later — A Political Pop-Up of the Theatrical Kind features BOXES and FAKE by Jen Huszcza and DREAMING Diana Burbano in an evening of 14 short plays by writers […]
Posted on February 15, 2018
The people have spoken… The February People’s Choice Award goes to Mercedes Segesvary for her short play, If Only It Were True, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on February 12 at the Zephyr Theatre. Congratulations, Mercedes! Courtesy of Ms. Segesvary we’re pleased to share the first two pages from the award-winning […]