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 […]
Posted on February 2, 2018
Monday Night PlayGround returns on February 12, with 6 new plays inspired by this month’s topic, “Tall Tales.” Starting February 2, the Writers Pool has four-and-a-half days to take us on an adventure featuring a larger-than-life protagonist trying to solve problems in unexpected and over-the-top ways. Six scripts will be chosen to receive a professional […]
Posted on February 1, 2018
Diana Burbano’s play POLICARPA was presented at the Milagro Theatre in Portland on January 15th. http://milagro.org/event/ingenio-play-reading-2018/ Jonathan Josephson‘s short play THE CAUTIONARY TALE OF “BIG ED”DELAHANTY was accepted to the 2018 William Inge Theatre Festival. Starina Johnson’s play VICE will be a part of Out of Box Theatre’s inaugural Women’s Shorts production! https://www.facebook.com/events/890781467755033/ Jen Huszcz had […]
Posted on January 12, 2018
The people have spoken… The January People’s Choice Award goes to Matt Ackels for his short play, The Bolt or The Fiddle, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on January 8 at the Zephyr Theatre. Congratulations, Matt! Courtesy of Mr. Ackels we’re pleased to share the first two pages from the award-winning […]
Posted on January 9, 2018
Midred Lewis’s play COWGIRLS, which got its start at PlayGround, will be read at the Everyday Inferno’s “If On a Winter’s Night” festival in New York City this month. It has also been accepted to the 2018 William Inge Theater Festival. the end of everything, a full length play, will be staged at Ensemble Studio […]