Posted on March 6, 2026
CALL FOR PLAYWRIGHTS: PLAYGROUND’S 2026-27 WRITERS POOLS San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago Applications Due April 30, 2026 San Francisco – PlayGround, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share the latest call for applicants to the 2026-27 Writers Pools in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. […]
Posted on March 3, 2026
PlayGround-Chicago Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this March including: Juliet Kang Huneke, Tanuja Devi Jagernauth, Alex Kingsley, Taylor Mercado Owen, Jay Rehak, and Katherine Swan! TAYLOR MERCADO OWEN, Directing Apprentice, is starring in the world premiere production of KUBRICKIAN by Zack Peercy at The Factory Theater in Roger’s Park. Opening February 20th […]
Posted on February 13, 2026
The people have spoken… The 2026 February People’s Choice Award goes to Dana Hall for her short play, Second City, First Draft, presented as a staged reading live at Theater Wit and Simulcast on February 2nd. Congratulations, Dana! Courtesy of Dana, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! Second City, […]
Posted on February 12, 2026
(SAN FRANCISCO) – Applications are now being accepted for PlayGround’s fifth annual FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL, July 31-August 23, at Potrero Stage and simulcast. This four-week “fringe style” new works festival will feature up to 20 productions and 60 performances by talented theatre artists from across the country including PlayGround artists based in the Bay Area, Los […]
Posted on February 4, 2026
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this February including: Dana Hall Leanna Oliveira, Jay Rehak, Diana Simonzadeh, and Katherine Swan! Dana Hall is featured in the recently published, “Best Female Monologues 2025 from Smith & Kraus” collection. This collection is a go-to audition book, packed with contemporary, smart, emotionally rich monologues written […]
Posted on January 31, 2026
PlayGround-Chicago presents Season 4 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “Tales of the City” February 2, 2026, 7 pm CT Chicago Dramatists & Simulcast Acknowledging the Legacy of the Land We Inhabit PlayGround-Chicago acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the people of the Council of Three Fires, including the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Odawa, […]
Posted on January 30, 2026
“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.” – Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon (illustrations by Clement Hurd) The topic for the March 16 Monday Night PlayGround-Chicago has been announced: BEDTIME STORIES. Playwrights in the PlayGround-Chicago Writers Pool have been invited to generate an original short play intended for young audiences (Theatre for Young Audiences, TYA) […]
Posted on January 23, 2026
PlayGround has announced the lineup for its first annual PlayGround Comedy Festival, an eclectic lineup of innovative performances including stand-up, sketch, improv, comedic plays, and more! Performances run March 6-29, 2026 (Thurs-Mon), presented live at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage and simulcast online. The festival features 18 hilarious acts and 60 performances produced by Lee Archer, […]
Posted on January 9, 2026
PlayGround has announced the lineup for its ninth annual PlayGround Solo Performance Festival, a curation of the best in solo performance, running January 16-February 8, 2026 (Thurs-Mon), presented live at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage and simulcast online. The festival of new solo work (the largest in PlayGround’s history!) features 17 solo performers and 58 performances, […]
Posted on January 1, 2026
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this January including: J.S. Puller, Karissa Murrell Myers, and Diana Simonzadeh! J.S. Puller‘s play, WINTER’S END, which was part of the PlayGround Festival of New Works this year, recently won the Epiphanies New Works Festival at Wild Imaginings, a theatre based out of Waco, Texas. As […]