Posted on April 10, 2024
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the selected plays and playwrights for our annual ten-minute play fest, BEST OF PLAYGROUND(CHICAGO) ’24, including first-time festival writers Daniel Arzola, Zach Barr, alfonzo kahlil, Juliet Kang Huneke, and J.S. Puller and returning Best of alumna Tanuja Devi Jagernauth. PlayGround will celebrate these artists and their place within the next […]
Posted on April 7, 2024
The people have spoken… The April People’s Choice Award goes to Tanuja Devi Jagernauth for her short play, Oral History, presented as a staged reading live at Theater Wit and Simulcast on April 1st. Congratulations, Tanuja! Courtesy of Tanuja, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! Oral History by […]
Posted on April 1, 2024
Are you a Chicago-based early-career or aspiring professional playwright? Have you ever wanted to see your plays performed on stage by leading local professional actors? Do you respond well to deadlines? PlayGround is seeking applications for the 2024-25 PlayGround-Chicago Writers Pool. Only members of the Writers Pool are invited to submit for the Monday Night […]
Posted on March 30, 2024
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this April! Emma Rund’s play, Personal Library, will have a staged reading with Ego Death Theatre Collective on April 19, 20, and 21. Another of Emma’s plays, Endlessly Failing to Save the World, about Katelyn Kariko, PhD, the woman behind the COVID-19 vaccine, will be […]
Posted on March 30, 2024
PlayGround-Chicago presents Season 2 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “RECLAIMING HERSTORY” April 1, 2024 7pm CT Theater Wit & 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, the original inhabitants […]
Posted on March 15, 2024
The people have spoken… The March People’s Choice Award goes to Toby Inoue for her short play, Gibber, presented as a staged reading live at Theater Wit and Simulcast on March 4th. Congratulations, Toby! Courtesy of Toby, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! Gibber by Toby Inoue Characters […]
Posted on March 1, 2024
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this March! Dana Hall is delighted to announce that her play, One Night in September, has earned a place as a Full-Length Finalist in the 2024 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival. Hall takes particular pride in creating a play that raises awareness about college […]
Posted on March 1, 2024
PlayGround-Chicago presents Season 2 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “Flashback: 1994” March 4, 2024 7pm CT Theater Wit & 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, the original inhabitants […]
Posted on February 23, 2024
The people have spoken… The February People’s Choice Award goes to Daniel Arzola for his short play, Romeo Doesn’t Know, presented as a staged reading live at Theater Wit as well as Simulcast & On-Demand via Vimeo Live on February 5th. Congratulations, Daniel! Courtesy of Daniel, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from […]
Posted on February 23, 2024
“When we see women differently, we see the world differently.” – Tania Katan, #ItWasNeverADress creator & PlayGround alumna Celebrate Women’s History Month with a Monday Night full of the stories you thought you knew and the stories you never knew – until now – inspired by the prompt “Reclaiming Herstory”! Join us on Monday, April […]