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 […]
Posted on January 4, 2018
PlayGround returns on Monday, January 8, with our annual Planet Earth Arts New Play Festival collaboration. On December 21, the PlayGround-LA Writers Pool participated in a live stream topic prep session led by the Planet Earth Arts team. Out of the prep session, grew the January topic: “Probable Future or Possible Future.” Writers had less […]
Posted on January 4, 2018
The people have spoken… The December People’s Choice Award goes to Nicki Spencer for her short play, Merry Christmas, Ruth, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on December 11 at the Zephyr Theatre. Congratulations, Nicki! Courtesy of Ms. Spencer, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! […]