Company in the News July 2023

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

Spencer Ryan Diedrick is continuing his partnership with the Inclusive Playwright Project (IPP) and will be a featured director of their yearly event, Sketchtopia! This presentation of new work samples will be held Wednesday, July 12th at Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s 1700 Space. Tickets available here. Diedrick will be directing “Once” at GhostLight Theatre this summer! Located in beautiful Benton Harbor, MI, the production runs August 10th through the 20th. Tickets and info available here.

Sheri Flanders was announced as a quarterfinalist in the Screencraft Comedy Writing Competition for her pilot Bent out of Shape. Click here for more information.

Primarily working as an actor, Carina Lastimosa is making her debut as a costume designer for The Plagiarists’s world premiere of Alexander Utz’s ‘Arabia, Arabia!’ The show opens on June 15 and runs through July 2. Tickets and info available here.

Rammel Chan is co-starring in Matthew C. Yee’s world premiere Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon, a new musical play at Lookingglass Theater Company. Featuring original country western and folk songs and directed by Amanda Dehnert. Performances from May 24 through July 16. Tickets available here.

Leah Roth Barsanti is a core writer on a new chat fiction app called ttom, which officially launches this summer! It’s all the fun of chat fiction aimed at an adult audience. Click here to learn more.