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 […]
Posted on March 31, 2023
PlayGround Chicago presents Season 1 MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND PLANET EARTH ARTS NEW PLAY FESTIVAL Topic: “Grief and Hope for Planet Earth” April 3, 2023 7pm CT Simulcast & On-Demand via Vimeo Live ACKNOWLEDGING THE LEGACY OF THE LAND WE INHABIT PlayGround-Chicago acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the people of the […]
Posted on March 20, 2023
See what PlayGround-CH Writers and Company Members are up to this March! The first 35 minutes of Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend‘s full-length comedy about reproductive rights, “Abort: The Mission,” will be read and workshopped with The Bechdel Group in NYC at The Tank (312 W 36th St) on Monday, March 20 at 6:30pm. John N. Frank […]
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 […]