Company in the News June-2024

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

Carmia Imani is Lacey-May in TOP GIRL, OR THE CHEERLEADER PLAY by Evalena Lakin at Bramble Theatre’s 3rd Annual Festival of Unfinished Work! The show will be at the newly-opened Bramble Arts Loft, June 26 – 30, 2024. Thurs – Sat at 7:30 PM, and Sun at 2 PM. Audience members get to VOTE on which of the six new plays Bramble should consider for future programming, so come vote for TOP GIRL, OR THE CHEERLEADER PLAY! TICKETS ARE LIMITED, so get yours soon so you don’t miss out! PlayGrounders, feel free to email or message me for a discount code. Tickets are available here.

Skylar Frishman is on a national tour with Bright Star, doing children’s theater for the summer. Check it out!

Karissa Murrell Myers’ play BLOOD OF MY MOTHER’S will be featured in Bramble Theatre Company’s Festival of Unfinished Work. The show runs June 26-30 in Chicago at the Bramble Arts Loft. Get your tickets. 

Katherine Swan‘s play SOME OTHER WOMAN LIKE ME has been selected as a finalist for The Road Theatre’s Summer Playwright Festival and will be performed at the festival in Los Angeles in July. Hope to see you there!

Shariba Rivers is proud to announce that Smoking Gun!, a short film which she starred, has been selected for the Black Girls Rock Film Festival in Atlanta this month. You can find more info here.

Kirsten Baity is intimacy directing Hedwig and the Angry Inch with Haven Theatre. The show runs July 5 – August 4 at The Den Theatre in Wicker Park. Tickets available here.

Tyler Struble directs the U.K. premiere of I’M GONNA MARRY YOU TOBEY MAGUIRE by Samantha Hurley at London’s Southwark Playhouse running June 28 – August 10, 2024. Tickets available here.