PlayGround is thrilled to announce the five playwrights who will receive paid commissions to adapt their award-winning short plays into evening-length works over the next year: Anne Brady, Madeleine Butler, Laura Domingo, Baylee Shlichtman, and Camron Wright! Each playwright will take part in the 2025-26 residency and receive readings and other development opportunities over the […]
READ MORESee what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this June! Alex Kingsley’s play UNPLANNED OBSOLESCENCE will get a staged reading as part of Gender Fucked Productions’ Trans Scribe Festival at Steppenwolf. Click here for tickets. Skylar Frishman is very excited to announce they have accepted a full time entertainer position at Walt Disney […]
READ MOREPlayGround-Chicago presents Season 3 in association with Theater Wit BEST OF PLAYGROUND(CH) ’25 May 5th, 2025 7pm PT Theater Wit & Vimeo Live Simulcast Acknowledging the Legacy of the Land We Inhabit PlayGround-Chicago acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the people of the Council of Three Fires, including the Ojibwe, Potawatomi […]
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