Company in the News November-2025

See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this November including Leanna Gianoutsos Oliveira, Dana Hall, and Toby Inoue.

Dana Hall’s new play Refracted Light, directed by Ponny Conomos Jahn, will run from Nov. 20th to Nov. 23rd, at Carnegie Stage, Pittsburgh PA. The play explores a family facing the upheaval of change as their daughter prepares to leave for college. Struggling with mental health challenges and the weight of the unknown, each family member is forced to confront their fears, failures, and deep connections. Tickets Available Here.

Leanna Gianoutsos Oliveira will be directing a reading of Kumquats on the QT by Tamar Brooks as part of Artemisia Theatre’s #WeWomen Festival. The festival runs November 17th-19th, with networking events on the 17th & 18th following the readings! Tickets Available Here.

Toby Inoue‘s full-length play SORA AND KELLER will have a reading as a part of Naked Angels T@9 Chicago’s 1st Mondays reading series on Mon Dec 8 at 7pm at the Russ Tutterow Theatre at Chicago Dramatists, 798 North Aberdeen. In SORA AND KELLER, two people fall in love and their relationship tests the boundaries between feeling safe and feeling trapped, between strength and toxicity, and between what can and cannot be forgiven. Admission is free.