Posted on September 5, 2026
The PlayGround Comedy Festival is our annual celebration of the best in comedic performance, including stand-up, improv, sketch, and comedic plays. The Comedy Festival will include up to 60 performances of 20 unique events taking place March 12-April 4, 2027, performed live at Potrero Stage (San Francisco) and simulcast online. All performances will take place […]
Posted on September 1, 2026
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this month including: Betsy Dudak, Dana Hall, Alex Kingsley, Kaeli Meno, Leanna Gianoutsos Oliveira, and Tyler Struble. Leanna Gianoutsos Oliveira is producing What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck at Ways & Means Theatre. Directed by Kaeli Meno (a fellow Playground-er!), Heidi […]
Posted on August 3, 2026
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this month including: Mab De Guzman, Beau Malone, Carmia Imani, Kaeli Meno, Leanna Gianoutsos Oliveira, Shariba Rivers, Matt Schutz and Katherine Swan. Carmia Imani’s play, in • di • visible, is being produced as a part of the Living Color Festival from August 13-29 […]
Posted on July 31, 2026
Join us for the ONE PLAYGROUND GALA (2026) Celebrating the June Anne Baker Prize 25th Anniversary September 14, 2026, 7pm-9pm CT Lookingglass Theatre Company, 821 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 Tickets: $150 or review Host levels PlayGround will honor four theatre luminaries at our annual four-city gala on Monday, September 14th. In conjunction with the 25th […]
Posted on July 21, 2026
PlayGround has announced the 2026-27 Producing Fellows, a vibrant and diverse class of four next-gen theatre leaders drawn from across the country and who will work with PlayGround’s artistic staff and national producing teams over the next year in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Fellows gain hands-on experience in the […]
Posted on June 29, 2026
PlayGround-Chicago Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this June including: Karissa Murrell Myers, Shariba Rivers, and Katherine Swan. Katherine Swan’s play Red Bell will have a staged reading at The Understudy on July 20 at 7:30 as part of the Freshly Brewed reading series. Reserve tickets HERE. Karissa Murrell Myers’ play TWIN FALLS […]
Posted on June 16, 2026
PlayGround will honor four theatre luminaries at our annual four-city gala on Monday, September 14th. In conjunction with the 25th anniversary of PlayGround’s June Anne Baker Prize, one of the nation’s longest-running play commissions dedicated to the next generation of promising women/non-binary playwrights, PlayGround will recognize significant theatre artists and producers who have elevated womxn […]
Posted on June 1, 2026
PlayGround-Chicago Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this June including: Matt Schutz, J.S. Puller, Andrea C. Conway-Diaz, Leanna Gianoutsos Oliveira, Katherine Swan, and Spencer Ryan Diedrick! Leanna Gianoutsos Oliveira is a founding member/creative producer at Ways & Means Theatre – a brand new Chicago theatre company! Check us out and join our mailing […]
Posted on May 15, 2026
PlayGround closes out the summer season with the fifth annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL, July 31st – August 23rd, 2026, at Potrero Stage and simulcast. This four-week “fringe style” new works festival features 21 productions and 61 performances by talented theatre artists from across the country including PlayGround artists based in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New […]
Posted on May 1, 2026
PlayGround-Chicago Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this May including: Mab De Guzman, Dana Hall, Toby Inoue, Alex Kingsley, and Jay Rehak! Dana Hall‘s play WHAT THE BONES REMEMBER has been named a Semi-Finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. A story grounded in memory, grief, and the unseen threads that bind […]