Posted on August 11, 2023
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this August! Spencer Ryan 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 […]
Posted on July 1, 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 […]
Posted on June 9, 2023
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this June! Dakota Pariset is self producing “The Survivalist” by Robert Schenkkan as part of Curious Theatre Branch’s Rhino Fest 2023. Performances are at Color Club (4146 N Elston Ave) in Chicago, and will be Saturday June 3, 10, 17 and 24 at 1:00pm. Tickets […]
Posted on May 26, 2023
Don’t miss your chance to be part of PlayGround’s second annual Free-Play Festival! Applications have been extended through June 16. The Free-Play Festival is a three-week non-curated fringe-style platform to highlight new works from the national PlayGround community and beyond, offering each artist team three public performances in a state-of-the-art San Francisco theatre, in person […]
Posted on May 18, 2023
PlayGround is excited to announce immediate openings to join the 2023-2024 Producing Fellowship, designed to foster the next generation of leadership for the American Theatre. We are looking for individuals passionate about theatre and looking to make an impact on the field while developing the skill set to do so for a living. Candidates must […]
Posted on May 16, 2023
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this May! Rammel Chan’s Tomato Tattoo, originally presented as part of the inaugural Best of PlayGround-Chicago Gala, will represent PlayGround-Chicago at the One PlayGround Festival, June 2-4, at Potrero Stage in San Francisco and simulcast. Rammel is also co-starring in Matthew C. Yee’s world premiere […]
Posted on April 28, 2023
PlayGround Chicago presents Season 1 BEST OF PLAYGROUND-CHICAGO GALA May 1, 2023 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 of […]
Posted on April 10, 2023
The people have spoken… The April People’s Choice Award goes to Dana Hall for her short play, (Un)drinkable, presented as a staged reading Simulcast & On-Demand via Vimeo Live on April 3rd. Congratulations, Dana! Courtesy of Dana, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! (UN)DRINKABLE by Dana Hall CAST: […]
Posted on April 10, 2023
Playwright incubator PlayGround-Chicago celebrates the best writers and short works from its inaugural season and its first in-person performance at the BEST OF PLAYGROUND-CHICAGO GALA, on Monday, May 1, 7pm CT, live at Theater Wit (1229 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657) and simulcast via Vimeo Live! The Best of PlayGround-Chicago Gala features a special […]
Posted on April 1, 2023
See what PlayGround-CH Writers and Company Members are up to this April! Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend‘s climate change comedy, Come Again, will be one of four plays presented as part of Bay Street Theater’s Title Wave New Works Festival in Sag Harbor, NY, on May 6th at 2pm. Get tickets here. Karissa Murrell Myers’ play THE […]