Posted on March 3, 2023
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 2023-24 PlayGround-Chicago Writers Pool. Only members of the Writers Pool are invited to submit for the Monday Night […]
Posted on March 3, 2023
PlayGround Chicago presents Season 1 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “Adapt a Classic Folktale or Myth” March 6, 2023 7pm CT Simulcast & On-Demand via Vimeo Live The Truth About Acorns by Gabriella Bonamici Directed by Charlique Rolle Gordon…………………Dakota Pariset Penny………………………Tansu Philip Dave……………………….Caleb Gibson Dr. Lucy……………..Charlotte Harris The Check In by Tanuja Devi Jagernauth Directed by […]
Posted on February 28, 2023
“Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you’re bravely working.” – Rumi. Playwright incubator PlayGround-Chicago in partnership with Planet Earth Arts has announced the prompt for the sixth and final Monday Night PlayGround staged reading event of its 1st season and the 7th annual Planet Earth Arts New Play Festival, […]
Posted on February 24, 2023
The people have spoken… The February People’s Choice Award goes to Samuel Kelly Fair Levit for his short play, Wily, presented as a staged reading Simulcast & On-Demand via Vimeo Live on February 6th. Congratulations, Samuel! Courtesy of Samuel, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! Wily by Samuel […]
Posted on February 7, 2023
“只要你心诚志坚,念念回首处,既是灵山.” Zhǐyào nǐ xīn chéng zhì jiān, niàn niàn huíshǒu chù, jìshì língshān. “Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.” – The Monkey King, from Journey to the West, a classic Chinese mythology story Playwright incubator PlayGround-Chicago has announced the […]
Posted on February 3, 2023
PlayGround Chicago presents Season 1 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “Resolution” February 6, 2023 7pm CT Simulcast & On-Demand via Vimeo Live Fire Ghost by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend Directed by Spencer Ryan Diedrick Fire Ghost….Carina Lastimosa Sandy……………..MiKayla Boyd Ted………………..Benjamin Kelly Search for an Ending by Karissa Murrell Myers Directed by Marti Lyons Benny.………………Jerome Beck Shawn.………………Scott Gryder […]
Posted on January 27, 2023
See what PlayGround-CH Writers and Company Members are up to this February! On Monday January 30th, Rammel Chan‘s full length play House of the Deaf will be performed in a staged reading as part of the Gift Theatre’s In The Works series at Filament Theatre, 4041 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60641. Learn more here. […]
Posted on January 4, 2023
“A new heart for a New Year.” ― Charles Dickens Playwright incubator PlayGround-Chicago has announced the prompt for the fourth Monday Night PlayGround staged reading event of season one. Thirty-six Chicago writers had just four-and-a-half days to generate their original scripts inspired by the prompt “RESOLUTION” as they vie for one of six slots in the […]
Posted on January 1, 2023
See what PlayGround-CH Writers and Company Members are up to this January! Richard Lyons Conlon‘s stage-combat sci-fi comedy “MFA* (or *Monster of Fine Arts)”, will have a virtual reading by the Ubiquitous Players on Saturday, January 7 at 2:00CST. It’s on a double-bill with the short, existential, possibly Rapturous play, “The Upside of Gravity”. A […]
Posted on December 30, 2022
PlayGround Chicago presents Season 1 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “Holiday Spirit“ January 2, 2023 7pm CT Simulcast & On-Demand via Vimeo Live The Sacred Duty of Ornaments by Karissa Murrell Myers Directed by Brooke-Erin Smith Fox ………………………….. Melissa Ortiz Starfish ………………… Benjamin Kelly Joseph …………….. Anthony Rutowicz Rabbit …………….. Hannah Lynn Kato A New Year’s […]