Posted on July 1, 2024
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this July! Check out Token Theatre’s first full production, ever – at A Red Orchid Theatre! As a member of Token, Alka Nayyar is so proud to have helped put this together over the last several years. The show had a fabulous opening on 6/23. […]
Posted on June 18, 2024
PlayGround will mark its third decade of incubating new plays by hosting simultaneous parties in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco on Monday, September 16, 2024. The events, which will also be livestreamed, will feature a starry array of playwright alumni, including many of the busiest names in theatre today. The PlayGround […]
Posted on June 7, 2024
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this June! Carmia Imani is Lacey-May in TOP GIRL, OR THE CHEERLEADER PLAY by Evalena Lakin at Bramble Theatre’s 3rd Annual Festival of Unfinished Work! The show will be at the newly-opened Bramble Arts Loft, June 26 – 30, 2024. Thurs – Sat at 7:30 […]
Posted on May 9, 2024
PlayGround is thrilled to announce the lineup for PlayGround’s 2nd Annual Best of the Best of PlayGround. This unique showcase is a culmination of the 2023-24 Monday Night seasons hosted in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. The line-up includes Bessie in Medias Res by Robyn Brooks (San Francisco), Love Language of Origin […]
Posted on April 28, 2024
See what PlayGround-Chicago Writers and Company Members are up to this May! Karissa Murrell Myers’ play, BLACK BEAR ISLAND will be featured at Renaissance Theaterworks’ Br!nk Festival on May 18, 2024. Additionally, her short play SEARCH FOR AN ENDING will be performed at City Theatre’s Summer Shorts: Flipping the Script in Miami. Festival funs June […]
Posted on April 28, 2024
PlayGround Chicago presents Season 2 BEST OF PLAYGROUND (CHICAGO) ’24 April 29, 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 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 […]