Company in the News Feb-2025

See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this February!

Diana Simonzadeh’s latest film project, The Solution (54 Scripts Productions), is currently in post-production. Read more about the project here.

Karissa Murrell Myers’s play Black Bear Island will make its world premiere at Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, NY, running February 14 – March 8, 2025. This play was the recipient of the 2023 Maxim Mazumdar New Play Award. Learn more here.

Catch Shariba Rivers in The Children at Next Act Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. The show opens February 14, with previews on the 12th and 13th, and runs through March 9. Get tickets here.

The second installment of Danztheatre’s Red String Series: The Playwright’s Cohort is here! Maria I. Arreola and eight other Chicago playwrights have been hard at work crafting and refining their 10-minute plays. Come check out their work! RSVP here.

Toby Inoue’s ten-minute play Booty Call will be featured in One Night Stand Theater’s The Art of Seduction showcase at Vintage Theatre in Aurora, CO, on Sunday, February 16. Learn more here.

Katherine Swan’s play The Lock has been selected for publication in Best Ten-Minute Plays 2025 (coming this October!). Additionally, an excerpt from her play Act V will be featured in Best Women’s Monologues, set for publication in December.

J.S. Puller has partnered with Plays for New Audiences to license four of her plays: The Box of Stories, The Absolutely (Almost) True Story of the Trojan War, Dragon’s Birthday Wish, and Snakes: The True Hiss-tory of Medusa.

Skylar Frishman is on the road this month, touring nationally with Bright Star Children’s Theatre, bringing educational theatre to audiences across the country.