Company In The News November 2026

See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this month including: Dana Hall, J.S. Puller, Shriba Rivers, Mab De Guzman, and Spencer Ryan Diedrick!

Dana Hall is a co-founder of MUSE COLLECTIVE, a new international initiative dedicated to amplifying women’s voices in theatre and creating opportunities for their work to be discovered, celebrated, and produced. The Collective has launched its inaugural project, NINE MUSES: An Anthology, and is currently accepting submissions from female-identifying playwrights worldwide.

J.S. Puller’s play, WINTER’S END, will have its world premiere at the Wild Imagining’s Epiphanies Festival, Thursday, November 7. It was previously workshopped at PlayGround! The festival will also feature readings of several new plays, one of which will go on the be fully staged next year. PlayGround playwrights should keep their eyes open for their call for scripts for the next festival, early in the new year.

Shariba Rivers will be a part of Playground’s PrePLAY reading of Blue Eyes by Katherine Swan, Sunday, November 1 at 2 pm at The Den Theatre. Shariba is also a part of Goodman Theatre’s Theater of the Mind that has now been extended through December. Shows take place at the Reid Murdoch Building on LaSalle.

Spencer Ryan Diedrick is directing and co-producing the Midwest premiere of someone spectacular by Doménica Feraud, Nov. 5th to Dec. 7th at United Church of Rogers Park. It’s the first show from Farrago Productions, which he founded with Jazzma Pryor. Please support this compelling new work! If you can’t attend, please consider supporting Farrago via GoFundMe.

Mab De Guzman is in Impostors Theatre Company’s production of “THE SNOW QUEEN” based on the story by Hans Christian Anderson- adapted by Mallory Swisher. Catch this fantastical journey from Nov 6th-21st!”