Posted on March 27, 2026
PlayGround-Chicago Writers, Company Members, and Alumni are up to this April including: Jay Rehak, Shariba Rivers, Joel Willison, Toby Inoue, and Sydney MacGilvray! Jay Rehak. Playground Playwright JS Puller is the featured guest on Season 5 Episode 2 of the “Tell Me What Happened” podcast hosted by Playground Playwright Jay Rehak. LISTEN HERE! Shariba Rivers. […]
Posted on March 20, 2026
PlayGround-Chicago, a leading national playwright incubator and theatre community hub, is pleased to share the lineup for Best of PlayGround(Chicago) ‘26. Originally developed among 24 new short plays through PlayGround-Chicago’s Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series, these plays will receive a special one-night encore performance on April 27, 2026 at 7pm PT at Theater Wit […]
Posted on March 19, 2026
The people have spoken… The 2026 March People’s Choice Award goes to Toby Inoue for her short play, Mukashi Mukashi, presented as a staged reading live at Theater Wit and Simulcast on March 16. Congratulations, Toby! Courtesy of Toby, we’re pleased to share the first few pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy! Mukashi Mukashi by Toby […]
Posted on March 14, 2026
PlayGround-Chicago presents Season 4 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND Topic: “Bedtime Stories” March 16, 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, the original […]
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, […]